Admittance to top Mechanical Engineering PhD programs without publications

BrownParent
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:27:57 +0000

So clearly your observations show a tipping point for those who have publications. But I doubt everyone admitted does. All you can bet on is that they have excellent research backgrounds. My daughter got admitted to a top 10 in her area (but not top 4 gold standards) with no pub’s. One project did get a pub the next year, but that didn’t help with admissions, only that she was on a good project with a known supervisor.