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I would like to do industry research. I want to do a PhD but will probably need to do a masters first to get into a good program. What schools would you recommend that would be in my range?

I want to do research in graduate school. At this point I really don't care to much about reputation as long as I could do research in Machine Learning / Data Mining. Schools I am applying to: University of Kentucky University of Tennessee Vanderbilt University and my long shot The Ohio State University GPA: 2.996 Major GPA: 3.63 GRE: Verbal: 147 Quantitative: 151 Writing: 4.0 Recommendation Letters: 1 great 1 good 1 average Awards: Outstanding Senior in Computer Science I have had two internships. One at a startup and the other at a large company doing software development. I have also had 2 independent studies. 1 in AI and the other was extra Statistics not taught in the upper level Stats class here. I have also presented once at KYMAA. My gpa the last three semesters is around a 3.3. I graduate in December. What are other schools that would give me a shot? I understand I will not get into a top 20 school with the low GPA and low GRE without any research experience.