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[Profile Review] Please tell me which universities to target for Fall 2027

I'm planning to apply for Fall 2027 for MS in CS/ML/CDS and would really appreciate some honest feedback on my profile.

Academics

* [B.Tech and M.Tech (Dual Degree) ] in Mechanical Engineering from a Tier-1 (Old IIT) Indian college

* CGPA: 9.1/10

Research

* No publications

Work Experience

* By the time of application, 1.5 years working as a Data Scientist at a Payments Fintech Company.

Letters of Recommendation

* 1 LOR from a CS professor (bachelors project)

* 1 industry LOR from my manager

* 1 LOR from my Robotics professor (masters project)

Planning to write GRE and IELTS

Have shortlisted few UNI's but not sure which ones are realistically possible

1)Georgia Tech

2)Purdue

3)TAMU

4)UC Berkeley

5)Carnegie Melon

  1. UPenn

7)North Carolina University

8)University of California, San Diego

  1. UCLA

  2. Columbia

  3. UIUC

  4. UTAustin

  5. UM Amherst 

  6. ETH zurich

Given my profile, Please help me realistically bucket these into Safe / Moderate / Ambitious? Also happy to hear if any of these aren't worth applying (too out of reach for my profile)

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u/byte_master23 — 1 month ago
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The Emptiness No one talks about

I don't know.

I have a good job that pays well. I have a family that loves me more than anything. By most standards, I should feel grateful. And I am.

But there is still a void inside me.

Some days, I work like crazy. I finish three weeks of work in five days. Other days, I don't even want to open my laptop even when I am on tight deadlines.

Then I ask myself, why am I doing this?

For money?

How much money does one really need beyond good food, a safe place to live?

Why do I keep chasing more?

Why can't I just relax?

I started this journey because I genuinely loved it. I cared more about the work, little about the reward to be honest. Somewhere along the way, love slowly turned into responsibility. Then responsibility started feeling like a burden.

Maybe that's normal.

Or maybe I'm just tired.

Maybe it's that I don't really have anyone I can share these thoughts with. So they just stay inside my head.

u/byte_master23 — 1 month ago