Hello everyone,
Please evaluate my profile for Masters in CS in US universities. Listed below is my profile along with my areas of interest and tentative list of colleges.
10th: 82% (CBSE)
12th: 87.2 (CBSE)
B.Tech: 9.26/10.0 (IIIT-Allahabad, 3rd in class of 90)
TOEFL: 106
GRE: 1400 (Q:800 + V:600), AWA: 3.0 :(((
Work Experience: 2 years (by the time i join masters) at Yahoo! R&D Center, Bangalore
Internships:
1) Harish Chandra Research Institute (2 months)
2) IIT-Chennai (2 months)
3) EPFL-Lausanne (6 months)
4) IISc (2 months as of now... working along with my office)
Also, junior member at some Digital Media Interest Group at my college
Publications: 2 (IEEE international conf), 1 (national conf), 1 (some international conf), 1 (inderscience journal... submitted) -> total:5
Recos
1 from college Prof (Good)
1 from company Manager (Good)
1 from EPFL Prof (OK..might be Good)
Extra-curricular: Normal (have worked with few NGOs too)
Area of Interest
Distributed Systems, Networks
Tentative List (MSCS)
AMBITIOUS:
1) Stanford
2) University of Toronto
3) UIUC
4) Cornell Univeristy
5) UT Austin
6) University of Waterloo
7) ETH, Zurich
8) CMU - INI
9) University of Oxford (UK)
Do you think my low GRE and TOEFL score will pull me down to get any good univ at US... as i clearly does not clear the cut-off for AWA and TOEFL for univs like stanford?
Please give me your thoughts on this list. Please suggest universities where I have fair chances, and should be in the list.
Also, can I consider few universities for direct PhD (after bachelors)?