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I see @abd1997. Can you suggest a few moderate (3)/safe(2) universities please? And maybe a couple ambitious ones that I have the most chance of getting in from the above list. I'm really confused at this point. The conference is AAAI but not the first author. As an aside, what else can I do to increase my chances for this fall or next fall (if I don't go for an MS this year).

Hey thanks for the reminder. I wasn't aware of that. Do you think it's prudent for me to retake the TOEFL? Also, can you please shortlist a few colleges for me from the above list. Are all 20 ambitious for me or are there a few moderate/safe ones too?

If possible, I would advise you to take the GRE. It will for sure boost your application even though it's not required by many universities.

Hi Everyone, I'm planning on applying for masters and I've selected the following colleges+courses. Please help me filter them into Ambitious-Moderate-Safe. Here's my profile: GRE: 326 (161V, 165Q, 4W) TOEFL: 106 (30R, 25L, 23S, 28W) GPA: 6.55/10 (~2.7/4.0) Bachelors - Electrical Engineering (From a Tier-2/Tier3 university in India) Work Ex - 18 months (Data Scientist at a Fortune-500 consultancy, AI Researcher at a top Indian University) Projects - 6-7 good research based projects in my preferred field (paper implementation and adaptation) Technical AI Blogs - 15+ (3000 views/month) Open source contribution through Google Summer of Code 1 paper publication in a top international AI conference Into research. Main goal of an MSc is to build up a research and math background for ML. May get a Phd in the future. I am worried that because of low GPA, my application will be filtered out and won't reach the admissions committee. Is this possible? I will pick ~7 colleges from the list below (2 amb, 3 mode, 2 safe). Please help! Sr. No. University Course Type (Ambitious/Moderate/Safe) 1 CMU Machine Learning 2 Columbia Computer Science (ML Track) 3 USC Computer Science (AI) 4 NYU Data Science (Math Track) 5 ETH Zurich Data Science 6 EPFL Data Science 7 University of Amsterdam Artificial Intelligence 8 John Hopkins University Data Science 9 U Penn Data Science 10 University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence, Data Science 11 University of Warwick Computer Science 12 University of Helsinki Data Science 13 KU Leuven Data Science 14 Kings College London Artificial Intelligence, Data Science 15 Cardiff University Artificial Intelligence, Data Science 16 Aalto University Computer Science, Data Science+ML,+AI 17 TU Delft Artificial Intelligence 18 UCL Machine Learning 19 KTH Machine Learning 20 Northeastern University (GPA 3.0) Artificial Intelligence, Data Science