Thread: HELLO frnds...I retook GRE and improved my score...(Profile evaluation) for fall 2013

Hello....

My new gre score is Verbal -147 and Quant - 160....so its 307
In my first attempt my score total score like 295. I had posted my profile in MS in US and I was advised to retake gre.
Maximus_199 and some other ppl had advised to get some decent score of 160 above in quant and 150 above in verbal.
and I tried and got this score.....

I am applying for MS in US fall 2013...computer engineering.

My profile goes like this:-
academics :- BE in Electrical and Electronics from PES Institute of Technology and my gpa is 7.937 on 10.
12th 86.6% and 10th 95.68 (if it helps)

research papers publications :- two in IEEE based on my reseach also presented them in shanghai, china. and
malaysia last year.
one in International journal of advanced computing for which the recent science
publications awarded me life time membership for international association of professional
academicians.
two submitted.
projects :- around 7 major and few minors
noted work includes ankur project for INTEL INDIA TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

internship :- summer project intern at PESIT(in my college) for INTEL ankur project.

patents :- one applied, its under the process.
extracurricular :- was a member of college dramatics team. co-founded a electronics hardware open source group in my
college, where we work on all these new tech stuffs like gestural recognition, image processing,
pattern..etc
awards :- ghayna shree state award for 2007, and few distinction awards in my BE.

letter of reco :- 3...will be from reputed professors.

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I was planning for these universities which includes safe mod and ambi.
But I dont know which falls under which category.......So if you guys can help...it will be highly appreciable.

University of Southern California
Arizona state university
northwestern university
Georgia Inst of Technology
Ohio sate univ (I have heard they have good prgm for Computer Engineering)
Carnegie Mellon univ (Well I Know its ambi but wanna give a shot)
University of Massachusetts -Amherst
illions Institute of Technology
Gorge Mason Univ
Penn State
university of Wisconsin Madison
North eastern univ boston

Friends please help me to categorize them.... also please provide some info if there are any negativity associated with some universities.
If you think I can try for some other univ..please comment.

Your candid opinions are highly appreciable.

Thank you,
NAVEEN M N

for your profile IIT is a bit low !! Aim higher