Hi everyone, I'm Indian and have applied for my Schengen Visa - yet to hear from them.

If this isn't being done already, one thing I would suggest for next year: booking tickets first for those who require a Visa, and then for US/European citizen who don't require one. Visa applications need to be supplemented with a lot of documents to back your case, which require time to obtain.

Afaik, assuming proper documents have been submitted, Visa acceptance/denial is in the hands of the Visa officer at the Embassy/Consulate and cannot be predicted. A friend of mine who contributes to the Gnome foundation put together this useful guide[1] I'd like to share. Maybe we could expand on this on a wiki or somewhere similar.

[1] - http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/docs/gnome-visa/introduction.html