College: Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Branch: Instrumentation and Control (2013-17)
Field of Interest: Signal Processing and Image Processing.
Degree Goal (MS/Ph.D.): MS
Percentage(do not convert to US scale): 69.5%
Topper's Percentage: 81 approx
GRE: 330 [ Quant: 170 + Verbal: 160] (AWA: 4.0)
TOEFL: 111
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Internships/Workshops:

1. Short term scholar at San Diego State University: Worked upon image and video processing comprising of compression of both by the latest applicable standards using MATLAB.
Explored High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, which is a video compression standard and one of several potential successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4).

2.Summer Internship Program: Microcontroller based embedded system design workshop on MSP430, low power MCU’s.
Fabricated a prototype based on “Chiddiya Udd”, a colloquial Indian game.

3.Winter Training Program: Two month long training in signal processing on MATLAB and Simulink.

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Recommendations(tentative) :
1. From my guiding professor in San Diego State University: moderate
2. From a professor ( taught 2 subjects and instructed one lab): moderate/strong
3. From a professor ( 1 subject and 1 winter training of MATLAB): moderate/strong
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Social Work:
2 months working with American India Foundation in 2014

Miscellaneous:
-Cleared N5 Japanese language proficiency exam.
-Head of operations, Enactus NSIT. Enactus is an international non profit social entrepreneurship organisation.
-Senior Coordinator of Canvas, fine arts society of NSIT.
-Sports enthusiast (Football, table tennis)
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Shortlisted Universities:
1. University of Michigan Ann arbour
2. Carnegie Mellon University
3. University of Texas, Austin
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. UCLA
6. University of California San Diego
7. University Of Maryland, college park
8. Ohio State University
9. University Of Florida
10. University of Washington
11. University of Southern California
12. UC- Santa Barbara
13. Texas A&M University
14. University of Wisconsin
15. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

I need another opinion on the universities I have shortlisted to check if I've made the right choice. Please classify my choices as ambitious, moderate or safe. Any suggestions for changes are most welcome.