Stop being Indian? Seriously, with so many Indians applying to elite US technical schools the odds are heavily against you. You're going to need something that sets you apart from them besides test scores...
Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Top four CS schools are MIT, CMU, Stanford, and Berkeley.
UIUC and University of Washington are also very very good. You forgot the California Institute of Technology. They're always in the top 10 on every list.
I would guess that banging on about how every muslim is a terrorist would be ill advised.
That might be ok getting you passed immigartion (assuming they don't think your one) but at the universities they might take a slghtly different view to nationalist Hindu parties