Profile evaluation (Brutal honesty is OK)

[Thevista]

Hi everyone,

I applied for masters in applied mathematics (mathematical physics concentration - GR and physical cosmology) for fall 2020 after much consideration but I'm having doubts about whether I'd get into any of these programs. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on my chances for these programs and if it's looking pretty bleak, what I should do to better prepare for Fall 2021.

Undergrad institution: No reputation Indian university

Major: Electronics and Communication engineering

GPA: equivalent to B in the USA (first class)

Background: International Indian male

Relevant math courses: 

Calculus, differential equations, transforms, numerical techniques, complex analysis and probability. We used Engineering mathematics by B S Grewal, Erwin
Kreyszig and Probability by Seymour Lipschutz. 

GRE general:
Quant: 164 (84 percentile)
Verbal: 156 (73 percentile)
Writing: 3.0 (15 percentile)

GRE physics: 770 (62 percentile)

TOEFL: R-29, L-30, S-23, W-25 Total: 107

Research experience: (For a total of one year)
Did research for a professor at a Indian central govt. research institute. Worked on algorithms in C for adaptive optics (fourier transforms, SVD, correlations) (a co-author acknowledgement in the publication of the work.)
Explored the use of image gradients for registration in the context of adaptive optics. Also ended up defining a small technique (A first author paper is in preparation for the same)

Technical skills
• Programming: IDL, C, MATLAB, JAVA
• Software: FFTW, GNU scientific library, MS Office, LATEX
• OS: Ubuntu(Debian) and Windows

LOR: 
My supervisor at the central govt. institution, whom I had a great relationship with, wrote me a strong positive letter.
My lecturer from my undergrad institute: under whom I completed my curriculum project work.
My lecturer from my undergrad institute: who taught us math for 1.5 years.

(I know that my background is different. But I have self studied from Apostol calculus. Now I have taken up moocs for real analysis and differential geometry)

Schools I applied to (masters in applied mathematics - mathematical physics)

UC Davis/ pending

UIUC/ pending

University of Alberta/ pending

University of waterloo/ pending

Univerity of toronto/ pending

Schools I applied to (masters in physics)

UT Austin/ pending

Stony Brook university/ pending

I am taking up math GRE this october. Should I be applying to MS programs that are ranked lower for next spring (if it's really the case that my chances are not that great.)

Thank you so much for your help.

[DanielWarlock]

I think you will likely be rejected by all of these schools unfortunately. Your background is simply not very good. Also you are basically throwing your money into water by applying to UofT because they rarely admit international student without personal connection. 

[StatsG0d]

This forum is really more oriented for statistics / biostatistics. For math, I suggest you head to https://mathematicsgre.com/