Profile Evaluation for MS in Electrical/ECE for fall 19.

[Rahulngp97]

Profile Evaluation. 

I have the following profile till 5th sem Engineering. 

College : Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. 

CGPA (till 5th sem) :7.6

GRE : 324(Q:170,V:154)

TOEFL : 110/120

Internships : 4 weeks at National Thermal Power Corporations (NTPC) 

4 Weeks at BSNL. 

Planning to do a RnD internship in Indian Institute of Technology this summer. 

Have a lot of extracurricular activities in college : ex. President of the official Student body of the electrical department of the college. Have been involved in 3 student bodies both academic and non academic, category head of the electrical department's category in the national level technical fest of the college. Was a campaign leader in Teach for India, an international level non governmental organization. 

Also have volunteering work certificates from Rotaract international. 

Planning to publish papers in IEEE conferences/journals based on the research I have done along with the professor since last year. 

Strong SOP since it will be backed up by research experience as well as strong internships and extra curriculars and volunteering experiences. 

Strong LoR from professor under whom I'll work at IIT and the professor under which I have worked in my college, plus from HoD. 

Shortlisted Universities. : (Ambitious to safe according to my research  in descending order). 

1)UCLA 

2) Carnegie Mellon University 

3) Columbia University 

4) Pennsylvania State university 

5) Texas A&M University College Station 

6) University of California Santa Barbara 

7) University of California, Irvine 

8) New York University 

9) University of Texas at Dallas 

10) Arizona State university 

Kindly give your insight into how many of these are achievable and which are ambitious or moderate in this list. 

Also if you have any other good universities for my profile For Fall 19 EE which I should apply to then please suggest them as well. 

Please do help me out. Thank you in advance. 

 

Edited January 8, 2018 by Rahulngp97