Profile Evaluation Request for Fall '19 MS in Mech Engg.

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Profile evaluation request for Fall 2019:

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College/University awarding the degree: NIT Kurukshetra, India
Branch: Mechanical Engineering
Field of Interest: physics of fluids, microfluidics
Degree Goal: MS(thesis)/PhD
GPA/Percentage: 9.12/10
Topper's Percentage (or GPA): ~9.7
Your rank in your class: ~20/120
GRE: 319 (V 155 + Q 164 + AWA 4.0)
Toefl:112 (R29 L29 S27 W27)

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Internships: 
1) 2 months: IIT Guwahati, summer 2016
2) 2 months: IISc Bangalore, summer 2017 (IAS fellowship)

Graduated May 2018, been working as Research Assistant at IISc since.

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Submitted or Accepted Publications: 1 - AIP's Applied Physics Letters

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Projects: 5 good ones!
3 of them relevant to the above mentioned field of interest.
Other 2 not to explicitly related.

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Recommendations:
1) Associate Professor, IISc Bangalore : Strong~Moderate (idk)
2) Professor, NIT KKR (B.Tech. Project guide) : Strong
3) Professor, NIT KKR : Moderate

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Misc Achievements: none

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Tentative Universities (applying to Mech Engg/Applied Physics programs, mainly thesis based) :

1) TU-Delft
2) TU-Eindhoven
3) University of Twente
4) KTH Royal Institute of Technology
5) UToronto
6) UBC
7) Purdue
? UIUC

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I need help in shortlisting the universities.
Please classify my choices as ambitious, moderate or safe. Any suggestions for addition or subtraction are welcome.
Especially in adding safe ones to the list?

I'm not hell-bent over MS in US. Especially due to my GRE.
Funding/Assistantship matters to me! Again, aiming for thesis based courses for the same reason.

Thanks!