Thread: Gre 310, 3.0 || toefl 111 || ug 90% || vlsi

Hi Everyone.

I would need you to assist me in the selection of the universities. I'd be starting the application process right after. However I'm a bit confused in getting to list down the universities that I should be applying for based on my scores.

My Profile

GRE - 310
Verbal: 152
Quant: 157
AWA: 3.5 please make correction in the title, its 3.5 only.
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B.tech (In ECE) Percentage:
90%
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High School: 84%
Class 12th: 87% (do the universities look into these scores?)
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I carry 3 years of work ex in IT (Infosys) and 6 months research experience in Defence Research Development Organization of India (DRDO) in MEMS technology. I had presented my research paper at various college level technical fests and had won accolades.

Projects include: Research project on MEMS Series switches and their fabrication at RF for radars and antennas used for defence org purposes. Electronic Nose - a gas sensing project as part of Final year. Metro Train prototype done at STEP IIT roorkee, Obstacle sensing robot. Also a number of software projects in Dotnet(not sure how relevant they'd be for applying for MS in EE)

Have won accolades in co-curricular activities as well throughout the school and college tenure. Associated with NGOs like MAD(make a diff) now as an English Teaching volunteer and Also assist in social work through my organization at various events.

Universities I'm looking forward to apply for:
I have sent scores to the following four univs as part of GRE test fee

University of Southern California /Viterbi School of Engg
Cornell
CMU
New York Inst Technology - (provided this name in the list of four during my GRE/Not sure how this college is)


Others I'm interested in:

Texas A&M-College Station
NCSU
Ohio State
Arizona State
Columbia University
Georgia Tech Atlanta
SJSU
University of Florida

Also can you give me idea on the following universities or anyother that are better in VLSI/EE and suit my profile

University of Kansas
NJIT
Auburn University
Iowa State University
NYU Poly
Washington State University
University of Arizona
Northeastern University
University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Texas--Arlington
Case Western Reserve University



Can you please classify the above universities as amb/moderate/safe. And also suggest me some other universities that you think can be included because they are safe or good more so for placements after.

1. University of California, San Diego (My research work is based on one of the fields reaserached by Faculty Gabriel M. Rebeiz) - amb
2. University of Washington, Seattle - amb
3. University of Massachusetts, Amherst - amb/mod
4. University of Arizona - mod/safe
5. NYU-Poly - mod
6. Iowa State University - amb/mod
7. NorthWestern University - amb (low international intake)
8. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - mod/amb
9. Case Western Reserve University - amb/mod