Suggest grad school in CS for me

Reel

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I am graduating in May from UF with a high 3.xx GPA in Computer Engineering, significant research/publication, leadership position in an honors society as well as member of professional groups, and should have a near perfect Quantitiative GRE score based on SATs. I have to make applications for grad school soon. I am thinking I most likely want to apply to a master's program though I haven't ruled out a PhD. I am interested in AI mostly but I would also be interested in cryptography/security research as well.

My only primary criteria for grad schools is that it has to be somewhere warm. I can tolerate a mild winter but I would like to avoid any school that is really cold. The schools that I am decidedly applying to as my dream and safe schools respectively are Stanford and U of Miami. On my possibilities list are Texas-Austin, Rice, UCLA, Berkeley, Washington, Georgia Tech. I haven't picked any of those and I am looking for suggestions from that list as well as others that may be somewhere in that middle range between my dream and safe.

Thanks for your help.
 

calbear2000

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BTW, I can tell you from personal experience that Stanford 's engineering grad programs are generally easier to get into than Berkeley's
 

Reel

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Originally posted by: calbear2000
BTW, I can tell you from personal experience that Stanford 's engineering grad programs are generally easier to get into than Berkeley's

That is interesting and perhaps fortunate for me since I am not sure I could handle the diversity of Berkeley's population.