Hi,

Dear Group Members,

It is my dream to get MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering in areas of RF/Antenna /Microwave /Telecommunication/Optics from Top 10 US Universities. Please provide your opinion on my university choices regarding the strengths/weaknesses of my profile using following choices (ambitious/easy to get/ moderate chances/ safe/ unachievable)

My overall educational, professional, research profile is as follows:

EDUCATIONAL PROFILE:

MBA (Telecommunication Management): 83%
B.E (Electronics): 73% with Final Year Project Marks: 194/200.
12th Grade: 83%
10th Grade: 87%
1st position throughout school

STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES:

GRE Scores: 1160/1600 (760 Q, 400 V, 3.5 A)
IELTS: 7.5/9 band
TOEFL: 98/120

WORK EXPERIENCES:

5 years (approx) Research & Development in Satellite RF/Antenna (Design, Simulation, Development & Testing) & 4 one month internships in RF Planning & Optimization

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

IEEE CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: 7 papers published in IEEE International Conferences held in China in 2010 & 2011.

2 papers published in non IEEE well reputed peer reviewed USA Conference.

Wrote a 26 page book chapter for a open access publisher as well.

Lots of more research papers ready on the way to be sent to IEEE international conferences.

HONORS/AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Achieved Excellence Award within my organization for year 2010
Achieved 6 Officer of the month awards during my office service
1st Position holder throughout my school career

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS:

Received lots of professional trainings from World Class Antenna/ Microwave Giant Companies as well.

LIST OF UNIVERSITY CHOICES:

Brief list of my Top 10 dream US universities are as follows.

1) MIT
2) Stanford
3) Berkeley
4) Caltech
5) UCLA
6) Harvard
7) Michigan Ann Arbor
8) Georgia Tech
9) Texas Austin Cockrell
10) Illinois Urbana Champaign

Other universities I am interested in are as follows:

11) Southern California
12) Ohio State Uni
13) Virginia Tech
14) California Santa Barbara
15) John Hopkins
16) Maryland

However I am bit confused to think about applying to these universities as I dont know much about their Electrical Engineering programs.

17) Princeton
18) Pennsylvenia
19) Carnegie Mellon
20) Cornell
21) Columbia
22) Yale
23) New York
24) Purdue
25) California San Diego
26) North Western
27) California Davis

Waiting for honest response from your side.

Best regards.