Looking for advice on what grad schools to apply to

[frenchfinesse7]

Here's a brief overview of my experience so far:

• I studied marketing communication at a top 25 undergraduate university in the U.S., graduated in 2015 with a 3.53 GPA. Interned at a variety of companies during my four years at university.
• Worked at a well-known digital advertising agency based in New York for a year. Helped sell in and lead projects that were worth upwards of $100,000, youngest junior copywriter at the company, promoted up to the youngest copywriter as well.
• I'm an international undergraduate student with a non-STEM degree –– which meant I only had one shot at the H-1B lottery this year. I wasn't picked. Had to pack my bags and head home. I'm currently looking at graduate school as a way to come back, and to pivot into a more technical field.
• While picking universities, I've looked for STEM master's degrees (the STEM categorization isn't as strict as you'd assume it to be) + a program that's ideally more skill-based so it's worth my $ and gives me a better shot at finding a company willing to sponsor my H-1B.
• I scored a 333 on the GRE (Q: 167, V: 166, AWA: 5.5), taking the TOEFL soon for two programs on my list that wouldn't waive the TOEFL despite studying in the U.S. –– but I expect that to go well (I got 117/120 about 5 years ago)
• I'm getting three recommendation letters –– one from a highly-reputed professor at my university, two from people at the agency I worked at (the creative director and the senior copywriter I worked with)

 

These are the 9 programs I've picked based on people I've talked to:

• Master of Computers and Information Tech at UPenn
• MS in Computer Science with Immersion at UChicago
• MS in Computer Science w/ the PAC Prep Course at NYU
• MS in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon
• MS in Human Computer Interaction at UMichigan
• MS in Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech
• MS in Business Analytics at USC
• MS in Integrated Digital Media at NYU
• MS in Integrated Innovation at Carnegie Mellon

 

Are there other programs that I should be looking at with my profile? Is there anything else I'm missing that I ought to focus on for my applications? Any advice at all would be super-useful.

[rising_star]

Do you have computer science/programming experience? If not, it may be a stretch to get into the CS and HCI programs you've listed as those are at well-respected universities.