Please profile evaluation for spring 2013 in VLSI-ASAP

hello all I am yashwanth my profile is
GRE:312 V:149;Q:163;AWA:3.0
Toefl:100;R:22;L:27;S:23;W:28
UG%:71% with two backlogs one cleared and one left Out in ECE JNTU-H
Both mini and major projects are in VLSI Domain
one month Internship in ECIL on M7 radio-Hyderabad
Couple of papers presented at an International level tech symposium- Daksh at SASTRA University
average extra curriculars

univ am planning to apply are

Purdue univ-west laffayete/Penn state/Carnegie melon/Oklahoma state-still water(please suggest)
Iowa state univ- ames
Univ of Illinois-chicago
Michigan technological univ
Utah state university
North dakota state university

please suggest and comment on my profile

I have just came to know that Utah state does naot a ms program in VLSI so suggest me a better choice please and am not sure about michigan tech vlsi program as well

Purdue, Penn and Carnegie are ambitious for u....Oklahoma is much safer for u....so u can include tau if u want a safe option. Else choose Carnegie for ambitious (but it'll be tough)....check out the course curriculum in the electrical websites. Most commonly the unis won't have separate vlsi program, but it'll be part of the electrical engineering program.....anyway for vlsi u can consider Oregon state uni....its one of the best for analog vlsi.

hello akshay
IOWA
MTU
UIC
NDSU are compulsory applications for me so that leaves one ambitious and one safe bet for me so please suggest the two universities which is ambitious and another is very safe for me

Utah or Oklahoma both are safe....try ucsd or usc for ambitious

Even Michigan state is ambitious but not out of reach. So u could try it

Utah does not have MS in VLSI..Oklahoma-still water or Norman but am not interest in USC,UCSD and MSU because of high fee so please suggest an ambitious which have less fee

Still water....try university of Arizona, university of Iowa, Virginia, Northwestern u....thing is, for ur profile ambitious ones are expensive....unis like Maryland, Wisconsin, tamu etc are very very cheap, but out of reach.