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Hi, I'm a senior at a T30 state school in engineering (think PSU/NCSU/VTech). I'm looking to attend a top MF or MFE program next year and I'd love to hear some feedback on my chances at the following programs:

1) Princeton - Masters of Finance

2) Stanford - Masters of Mathematical & Computational Finance

3) MIT - Masters of Finance

4) Columbia - MFE

5) CMU - MSCF

6) NYU - Financial Mathematics

PROFILE:

• Age: 22
• Demographics: White Male, US Citizen
• Undergrad GPA: 3.95 (Computer Science Engineering)
• Research: 2 years in a statistics lab underneath well-known professor from Stanford/Harvard/MIT. One working publication in top journal in field as well as an honors research thesis.
• GRE: 1st score 332 (168V, 164Q); second score 330 (164V, 166Q)
• Internships: 1 technology internship at MS/JPM/GS, 2 internships at a F100 company (think P&G/GE/J&J)
• Graduate Courses: I have taken two graduate courses, one in high performance computing in C and another in Statistical Machine Learning

I realize it will be hard to get Princeton/MIT to bite without any front office experience and that my Quant score is low (166 best case). With that in mind, I was looking for some advice to help with application execution.

1) Will being a US Citizen give me an advantage?

2) Are any of these programs particularly friendly to a young applicants?

3) Is my first or second GRE better to use?

4) Any general advice on application execution?

Thanks for the help!