From Math to CS MS | Please help me decide which schools to apply for!! (Fall 2016)

[Chih-Wei (Bert) Chang]

Hi,

I'd like to apply for CS MS this year (for Fall 2016), and I'm struggling with deciding the "list of schools". Please kindly help me evaluate my background/profile and help me check if my list of schools are safe or not, or is there any missing school I should apply for. Thanks!

Education / English Testing

• B.S. in Math in National Taiwan University (NTU)
• GPA: 3.45/4.30 (overall), 3.87/4.30 (Last60)
• No Publication
• GRE: 327 -- V157, Q170, AWA 3.5
• TOEFL: 102 -- R28, L27, S20, W27
• CS related courses: Machine Learning and Optimization / Algorithm / Data Structure and Programming / Database / Scientific Computing

Academic Experience

• 1.5 years in Machine Learning research, # of research projects is roughly 3~4
• 1 Teaching Assistant to Machine Learning in NTU
• 2015 KDD Cup 4th prize (NTU Team)

Industrial Experience

• 4+ years in web development (intern for 4 startup companies)
• Open Source Experiences: maintain / contribute several projects such as Scikit-Learn / Go-OpenCV (github: https://github.com/lazywei)
• Participated in Google Summer of Code both 2014 and 2015 (with Ruby on Rails and GitHub respectively)

 

And my draft of list of schools --

Dreaming for:

• CMU CS, ML, LTI, INI
• Stanford ICME
• Cornell / Cornell Tech CS Meng
• GaTech CS MS
• UT Austin

Shooting for:

• UCLA
• UW Madison
• UCSD CSE
• USC
• NYU
• UC Davis

Is there any school/program I miss, or is this list too dangerous / unsafe (according to my low GPA)?

Please kindly help me evaluate my profile, thanks!