Momwaitingfornew

With so many on CC applying to graduate schools in engineering, I figured that they needed their own thread to keep track of how everyone is doing and to share information.

Use this thread to post your stats, interests, schools applied to, and acceptances/denials. This is NOT a chance thread but rather a results-oriented one so future applicants can learn from your experience.

Good luck with all your applications!

superwizard

Thanks for starting this thread momwaitingfornew. I guess I'll start.

Background:
School: Stanford
GPA: 3.6
Major: Chemical Engineering
GRE: 770Q 620Q 5W
Research experience: two academic years in the same lab plus one summer all leading up to an honor's thesis and one summer as an REU researcher at UCSB
Applying to: Chemical Engineering: MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Princeton, UCSB
Material Science: MIT, Cornell, Stanford

Not much else to say. I haven't really started any applications yet and my school list isn't final (I might add one or two more schools)

engrgrad

Most engineering grad schools don't have apps start till the 15th...we have a long ways to go. But anyways, I'll keep you updated

Undergrad-graduated last spring
School: UW-Madison
GPA: 3.72
Major: Nuclear Engineering and Physics

Grad-will graduate this spring
School: UW-Madison
GPA: 4.0 (only have taken one class though so this doesn't really count)
Major: MS in Engineering Physics

Research experience:
-Honors in Undergraduate Research program-worked under a professor 2 years in undergrad leading to an RA for this coming school year and past summer. Published one paper here in JAP-second author
-Senior Thesis
-Internships with companies-doesn't really apply too much
-Will start another research position for this school year in design of new experiment for another professor

Applying to: Electrical Engineering: MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan
Applied Physics: Caltech

Anyone have any other ideas for schools with good optics/laser programs. The ones I listed are all I know and they seem to be ~top at what they do

algirau

Loyola Univeristy New Orleans Senior

Cumulative: 3.35
Major: Chemistry - Honors 3.45
Minor1) Math 3.4 , (2) Computational Science 3.75

GRE: Not taken yet but all practice test have had Q at 750+ and V at 500+

Research: 1 Year Organic Chemistry, 1.5 Years and Summer Physical/Analytical Chemistry
2008 ACS Regional Poster Session, 2009 Regional Poster Session, (in progress) 2010 National Hazards Conference Poster Presentation, Writing departmental honors thesis on summer research, and also good chance of being published by next spring/summer.

Recommendations: 2 very very good recommendations from p.chem research adviser and head of chemistry department. Can either get a third very very good recommendation from a mathematics professor or a good one from an "MIT" distinguished alumni.

Internship: 2010 summer internship at Shell Oil - New Orleans

SOP: Strong and unique, hurricane Katrina caused much hardship resulting in 3 f's (0.0 all in non major calsses) yet Ive maintained all A's and 1 B in last 3 upper level semesters.

algirau

im applying to MIT, Cornell, Rice, UCSB, CUNY, Tulane

Good luck on MIT admission to everyone applying

ultimaw

Applying for MS in Civil/Environmental Engineering

Current School: NCSU
BS in Civil Eng, Graduating in Spring09
Major GPA: 3.88
Overall GPA : 3.92
GRE: 400V 730Q (I plan to retake it)

Starting research this semester, no previous research experience
Good LORs

Plan to apply in Oct/Nov to these school:
U of Wisconsin, Cornell
U of Minnesota, U of California—Davis
U of Maryland, U of Washington
Maybe to UIUC and Berkeley

Stickid

Mechanical Engineer
GPA: 3.72

Research Exp:
3 years in my university's aerospace club designing planes
REU at the University of Minnesota
Internship at NASA

Applying for PhD:
Cornell
Princeton
G-Tech
V-Tech
Johns Hopkins
University of Maryland
Illinois
Purdue

JustAnotheNobody

Heard from a friend of a friend that a 2009 MIT PhD admit in engineering received no stipend. Is this possible? I thought that all PhD admits in top tier engineering schools get a stipend.

JustAnotheNobody

.... from the student himself.

He was accepted in the PhD program with no stipend offer and was told he had to find a research or a teaching assistant position himself. If he couldn't find anyone who would take him on, he would be liable for tuition and living expenses.

I'm very surprised that MIT would take on a PhD student under these circumstances.

sefago

the economy sucks

cnation

Applying for MS-Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Current School: UT Austin (go longhorns!)
BS in EE
GPA: 3.86
GRE: aiming for V500, Q750 or above
Citizen

- Research @ Intel
- Internships @ IBM and General Motors

Applying to (in order of preference):

Stanford
MIT
Carnegie Mellon
Caltech
Berkeley
Cornell
Michigan
USC

UraniumMillings

Current at GT (BS Nuclear and Rad Eng)
GPA: 3.695
GRE: 780Q 660V 4.0AW

- Internship at Babcock & Wilcox (reactor design experience)

Apply to (alpha order):
Berkeley
Michigan
MIT
Texas A&M
...all MS

WinstonLee

Industrial Engineer
GPA: 3.90
GRE: 800Q, 430V (Bad I know!)

Undergrad from University of Arkansas - Fayetteville

Research Exp:
2 years in my university's Industrial Engineering and presented a conference paper at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference in 2007

Applying for Masters:
Cornell
GATech
VATech
Stanford
Pen State
Michigan
Berkeley
Wisconsin-madison
A&M
Purdue

sporadic

Chemical Engineer from National University of Singapore (NUS) (Senior Year)

GPA: We calculate it on a scale of 5, but if I were to count my grade points on a scale of 4 it'd be 3.43, major 3.61
GRE: 770Q 570V, waiting for AWA to be mailed over

Research Experience:
1.5 years in Chemical Engineering with a prof in the department (with a focus on membrane science and development), 1 paper submitted to a Tier-1 journal (first author) as an independent research project, a self-designed senior year honors thesis which will most probably lead to another paper, plus further ideas bounced off other postgrads in the research group which might contribute to some second or third authors in yet other papers. I'm also due to editing more PhD theses and journal manuscripts and getting my name cited (at least under the acknowledgment sections)

LOR: From research prof (definitely!) who is an industrial leader in membrane research, vice-head of ChE in NUS and another Berkeley alum.

Applying for PhD in Environmental Engineering:
Berkeley
Stanford
Still considering others

Fellowships: None. Reason being there's a very attractive governmental PhD scholarship here in Singapore to entice more people to do PhDs, which for an odd reason is sorely lacking, so I'm applying for that.

I'd actually think of ONLY Berkeley because I attended classes there recently as part of a summer program linkup with NUS and promptly fell in love with the place. At least I got an A- for that course! But I figure my GPA would be too low. Didn't study for GRE and am loathe to study again for another one.

baraider

Good luck to all 2010 applicants. I wish you all get into the program of your choice.

Does anyone know if CC has any tracking site to track and share timelines similar to this one?

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