Seeking some advice on pursuing MS in CS from Stanford or Carnegie Mellon or Caltech
- by avi
What kinds of projects are given preference in top notch colleges like Stanford, Caltech, etc to get admission into MS programme in Computer Science?
I have an average academic portfolio. I'm pursuing Btech from a not so popular university in India with an aggregate of 67%. I'm good at designing algorithms and possess good knowledge of core subjects but helpless with my percentage. So, I think the only way I can impress them is with my project(s).
Can anyone please suggest me the kinds of projects that are given preference by such top level institutes? Could you please also suggest some good projects?
My area of interest would be Artificial Intelligence or any application/software/algorithm design which could be of some help to common people. Or if you have any other random idea for my project then please share it with me.
Note: Web based projects and management projects like lib management wouldn't be my priority.