Hi all, I am glad that there's a beautiful virtual world created by stackoverflow.com where we have so many brilliant minds to help. I am new here, in fact very new and so far my experience here has been very beautiful.
Once again I would like to use this stage to get some more help but this time it's non-technical. I want to know, what kinds of projects are given preference in top notch colleges like stanford, Caltech etc to get admission into MS programme in Compuetr Science. I have an avg 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 which are given preference by such top level institutes. Could you please also suggest me 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 etc wouldn't be my priority.