Help Evaluate Profile | MS CS | Fall '11 | GRE 1390(800+590) | Work Ex == 2 years

[hatred]

Hi All,

I want to apply for Masters in Computer Science in Fall' 2011. Here's a overview of my profile. Kindly help me in choice of colleges after evaluating my profile based on my area of interest.

Undergraduate College :- IIIT Allahabad
GPA 8.6/10
GRE 1390 (590V/800Q) AWA 3.0
TOEFL 105 ( R-27, L-27,S-23, W-28)

Internships
Yahoo! Research, Bangalore ( 6 months )
Patent Referral Center Labs, IIIT Allahabad. ( 1 year )

Work Experience
2 years at Adobe Systems

Patents
1 all ready applied to USPTO
3 under internal review
No Publications

Achievements
Have won around 20+ local programming/hacking/obfuscated coding contests. Google Code Jam 3rd Round twice.
Project made it to PC Quest Best IT Implementation Award ( Only Student Project till date to do so )
Adobe India Special Contribution Award ( Only Fresher in my year to have been given so )


Recommendations
1 from Dean R & D College (Good)
1 from Senior Comp. Scientist at Work (Good)
1 from Director Engineering at my company ( not sure. Average)

Area of Interest
Information Retrieval/Theoretical Computer Science

Tentative List (MSCS)
Stanford
CMU
UT Austin
Maryland College Park
UC - San Diego
Univ of Waterloo
Purdue

I would really appreciate if you can provide me with suggestions on the above list. Should I give GRE again owing to my low AWA score ? Are there any other colleges in my area of interest that I should consider besides those in the list.

Regards,
hatred

[CalmLogic]

CMU doesn't offer a MSCS. Are you referring to another program there?

Regarding your GRE AWA score, I don't know what you should do. As you probably know, the GRE is the least important factor, unless there are minimum GRE requirements (which is usually not the case). OTOH, I would be tempted to say retake the GRE if you have the time.

[hatred]

Oops, I should have made myself more clear , I meant CMU ( LTI & VLIS ). What about the university list ? Do I need to tinker with it or it looks fine ?