Fall 2016 | GRE 317(163Q, 154V, 4.0AWA) | Hello seniors... Kindly evaluate my profile please!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

[borntowin]

Hi seniors,

I'm new to gradcafe and I would be needing your help to evaluate my profile and shortlist universities I should be applying to for MS in CS.

Please evaluate my profile:

10th - 97%
12th - 97%
U.G: (IT in Anna University) : 9.0 / 10
GRE : 317 ( 163Q [86%], 154V[63%], AWA:4.0[56%] )
Industry Experience: ~2 years
Publications : 1 IEEE conference publication

 

 

Undergraduate Details
University/College	Anna University
Department	Information Technology
Grade	9
Topper's Grade	9.4
Grade Scale	10
Experience and Publications
Journal Publications	0
Conference Publications	1
Industrial Experience	1 Years, 6 Months
Research Experience	0 Years, 0 Months
Internship Experience	0 Years, 0 Months
Visa Information
Undergraduate Arrears	0
Home Country
Destination Country
Applied Visa Type	Still To Apply
Visa Decision
Visa Consulate City
Decision	Not Applied
Appointment Date
Applied University
Type of Finance Docs	Not Applicable
Financial Aid
Type of Financial Aid	Not Applicable
Amount	0
Other Miscellaneous Details
List of projects:  1) Research Project:  Secure transmission of sensitive data via images using steganography  Technology: Cryptography, Matlab, Image tweaking and analysis  2) Government funded Project:  Accident occurrence detection and effective path tracing using shortest path algorithm  Technology: Android, Sensors, Djikstra\\\'s algorithm  3) Publication:  One IEEE conference publication based on the government funded project  Published in:  2013 Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC)  Publisher:  IEEE  Link:  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6921997&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6921997  4) Industry experience:  1.5+ years as performance engineer in top-tier networking company.  Tools developer to measure performance of the company.  Technology: JQuery, PHP, Perl, R.  Community Services:  Part of National Service Scheme  Part of Blood Donation Camps

Shortlisted universities:

University of Wisconsin Madison
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Maryland 
North Carolina State University
U Pennyslvania 
USC
NCSU
UCLA
UC San Diego
TAMU

NYU

 

Kindly help me with classifying the above universities into safe, moderate and ambitious universities. Also, it would be helpful if you could suggest some universities I should be adding.

THanks in advance!
 

[ace589]

I have read an autobiography of sorts for a current ( maybe former?)  deparment head of North Carolina State University he has really done a great job at building the graduate IT programs.  I would say it is the midline of the programs you have mentioned.  You can check us news for the rankings.  You can also judge this using admissions stats for each program and their admissions requirements.

[.letmeinplz//]

I have read an autobiography of sorts for a current ( maybe former?)  deparment head of North Carolina State University he has really done a great job at building the graduate IT programs.  I would say it is the midline of the programs you have mentioned.  You can check us news for the rankings.  You can also judge this using admissions stats for each program and their admissions requirements.

Our current (acting) CSC department head is not a man so maybe former.

 

OP if you have any questions on NCSU I can try to answer them, the only other school I applied to on your list is GT so I can't really acceptance chances. But know that even though NCSU is Top 50 and not Top 10 in the US, there was still around 2400 applicants (I don't know the exact amount but I believe that is what they told us in orientation) and 10% acceptances from that pool.