Having a hard time choosing match/safety schools

[Pha3drus]

Undergrad in CS from engineering-heavy state school

Domestic US Student

GPA: 3.87

Major GPA: 4.0

GRE: 166 (Quant) / 167 (Verbal) / 4.0 (Writing)

Research Experience: 1.5 years of research under a professor designing and implementing parallel algorithms. No papers though.

LOR: 1 from prof that I research under, 2 from profs of classes where we did semi-independent research.

 

My list of schools now is:

 

Reach:

MIT

Berkeley 

Stanford

UCLA

UCSD

 

Match:

Rice

UNC

UCSB

UC Irvine

U Minnesota Twin Cities

 

Safety:

UCSC

My Undergrad University

 

 

I'm really not sure where I stand with applying to a lot of these schools. Could I get some with finding what kind of range of schools I should look at for matches and safeties?

 

Thank you!

[compiler_guy]

You didn't say if you are applying for a masters or PhD.

Either way, your application looks pretty good, so it all depends on the quality of the letter of recommendations

[Pha3drus]

Sorry, applying for PhD. Thanks!