Here’s my profile:
2nd year Computer Engineering major at University of Texas at Dallas (full ride, Honor’s College)
GPA 3.9
GRE 322
Did and still doing research in natural language processing/speech recognition with a professor established in the field (on my way of getting published 
)
Member of ACM, IEEE; made Dean’s list and bla bla
I’m also trying to get internships at Facebook/Google/Microsoft for the summer.
And by top school I obviously mean tech powerhouses like MIT, Stanford, CMU…
Though my school doesn’t have much name recognition (for now), I think I’m doing the best I can…
And I understand that schools admit master’s students for the money, and naturally scholarships/fellowships would be competitive.
Am I even on the right track? Should I get more research experience, or should I get more real-world software industry internships? (although I enjoy both and I don’t know which one I really want for my future, but money-wise, I think I’m becoming a software engineer)