1340..now help me please!!!!!

[Subhasis]

I recently took my gre and got v-550 & q-790.Boy,it was a really rough experience.i know i dont have such a good score but i am ready to help

This,in a nutshell is my profile :-

i have a gpa of 8.36 on a 10 point scale.my majors is in electrical engineering from the west bengal university of technology.

class 10-91.3%

class 12-72.0%(Jaundice!!!)

Ieee member,national creativity olympiad winner,member of the institution of engineers, final year project on longitudinal system stabilty.

Job experience of 6 months in INFOSYS by the time i attend the schools in roughly SEP 2010.

Strong recommenders,statement of purpose ,letter of reference etc...

Can anybody please suggest me to what colleges i should apply?

I have prepared a shortlist based on internet research and it looks like this. can anybody help me prune this list.......

Risky-

University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles

Texas A&M University--College Station

University of Washington Seattle

University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta

Purdue University--West Lafayette

University of Wisconsin--Madison

Moderate-

Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe

Duke University Durham,

Harvard University Cambridge,

Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston,

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia,

Washington University in St. Louis (Sever) St. Louis,

Iowa State University Ames,

University of Arizona Tucson,

University of California--Davis Davis,

University of California--Irvine (Samueli) Irvine,

University of Colorado--Boulder Boulder,

University of Virginia Charlottesville,

Yale University New Haven

Safe-

Dartmouth College (Thayer) Hanover,

Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem,

Oregon State University Corvallis,

SUNY--Stony Brook Stony Brook,

University of New Mexico Albuquerque,

Colorado State University Fort Collins,

Drexel University Philadelphia,

University of Illinois--Chicago Chicago,

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh,

University of Tennessee--Knoxville Knoxville,

Clemson University Clemson,

Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago,

Mississippi State University (Bagley) Mississippi State,

Polytechnic University Brooklyn,

Syracuse University Syracuse,

Texas Tech University Lubbock,

University at Buffalo--SUNY Buffalo

University of Central Florida Orlando

I am very sorry that i wrote such a long post but really i do need some help...please....i am getting thinking about which schools to apply.

If any body wants to know anything more feel free to ask...

[Tam]

I don't know anything about your undergraduate school or how good your GPA is, but your GRE scores are just fine - your verbal is plenty high enough for engineering, and of course your math score is good.

If you haven't already, you'll want to go to the website of each of the graduate programs you've listed and see what areas they specialize in, and what the funding situation is (assuming that matters) for foreign students. Are you a native English speaker, and is your TOEFL score high enough to be considered for a teaching assistantship? That kind of thing. You might also narrow your list by considering what type of city you want to live in (a small college town vs. a big city like Boston or Chicago, etc.) and other factors like that.

Good luck!

[Subhasis]

I don't know anything about your undergraduate school or how good your GPA is, but your GRE scores are just fine - your verbal is plenty high enough for engineering, and of course your math score is good.

If you haven't already, you'll want to go to the website of each of the graduate programs you've listed and see what areas they specialize in, and what the funding situation is (assuming that matters) for foreign students. Are you a native English speaker, and is your TOEFL score high enough to be considered for a teaching assistantship? That kind of thing. You might also narrow your list by considering what type of city you want to live in (a small college town vs. a big city like Boston or Chicago, etc.) and other factors like that.

Good luck!

thank you tam.....i am from india,west bengal(the land of tagore!!!) and our university is ranked 16th in india,i am not a native speaker and will be giving my TOEFL on 22nd.nov, i have no preferences about location as long as it is a good school with adequate funding.i have 2 questions for everybody.i will be applying to fall 2010.and planning to appply by december 1st week.will it be too close to the deadlines......?

and hey, a helping hand with pruning the lists is always welcome......Thank you ...

[hajimemashite]

haha, that is a huge list.

Don't apply to Florida schools - the funding situation is not so great out there. (So, I have heard from my professors)

I have also heard negative stories about the availability of monetary assistance in Cali, but you should give it a shot. One of my friend is actually doing just fine at USBC.

Other than that, try narrowing down what research you are actually interested in. That is what helped me in my case. Basically had to go to individual school websites and read publications.

Btw I am from kolkata. Good luck