Please help evaluate and select universities.

Graduate School
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<p>Hi everyone,
I am a 4th year student and will apply for Fall 2009. Kindly evaluate my position and tell me if I should take the Subject GRE again or not.</p>

<p>Course: Integrated MSc (Physics), IIT (India)
CGPA:6.6/10
Subject GRE : 830
Haven't appeared for general GRE and TOEFL yet.
Publications:
I have a publication as one of the three authors of CERN notes.
4 citations in various CERN conferences.</p>

<p>Currently working on:
Exploitation of top events in the ttbar channel in ATLAS, LHC.
(Institute of Physics, University of Bonn)
Projects:
1. Signal and Background separation in the ttH channel of ATLAS in LHC, (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,Oxford)
2.Wavelet Analysis of Satellite Signals ( Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta)
3. Particle Detectors in a High Energy Collider. (Harish Chandra Research Institute)
4. Analysis of growth and kinetics of nano-structured material using
Atomic Force Microscopy (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur)
5. Diffusive Wave Spectroscopy on emulsions (Raman Research Institute )
Seminars:
Two seminars in CERN, One in Oxford, One in Durham.
I will be interning in CERN as a UCLA supported student coming summer.
I am worried about my CGPA and Subject GRE score . What should be the universities that I can aim for? My interest is in Particle Physics.
Roughly, if I aim for these:
MIT
Caltech
Cornell
UCSB
will I be thinking too highly of myself?
Please help!
Thanks</p>

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<p>Please help, I am in utter dilemma</p>

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<p>Are you applying this fall, or applying for the fall of 09. If the latter, then you are probably a little late.</p>

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<p>Need to aim lower. I worked with some IIT students on their C.Vs. They typically had 8-9s for their c.gpa.</p>

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<p>I’d apply to Stanford and Harvard as well. They have strong physics programs too.</p>

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<p>Here’s a listing of 61 university grad programs with research in particle physics which you may not have thought of: [Graduate</a> School Information in Physical Sciences - GradschoolShopper.com](<a href=“Checking Browser”>Checking Browser).</p>

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<p>You never know until you try. So apply to as many as possible.</p>

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<p>Hi, Thanks everyboy for their replies.
My CGPA is above average, according to the CGPA of the rest of teh students in my department. I stand at rank 7 in class.
Does that matter?
Stanford-- I don’t see any research groups doing what I am interested in.
Harvard–Almost the same.</p>

<p>I have also seen the list given in gradschoolshopper. I am somehow not being able to make a list.
What should the universities be, if say I plan to apply to 10 of them?</p>