CalTech Graduate Admission Questions.

rtkysg
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:03:09 +0000

fyad,

As Ben Golub said, graduate admission process is normally done by the respective departments. In EE, if a professor like you (your resume, research, specialization, etc), then you’re likely to be accepted regardless of your GPA. If you are aiming for Masters then your GPA plays a really big role. The average graduate students’ GPA is around 3.8/4.0. I believe GPA 3.6 or 4.5 is often acceptable if you come from universities like MIT or Caltech itself. But for most schools, you are expected to have GPA above 3.75.

PhD work at Caltech is relatively more relax than its undergrad study, but notice that Masters program is as hard as the undergraduate, it may be harder if you don’t have a strong background in the related field.

Most graduate students at Caltech are from Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT and Harvard. But there are many students too come from Cornell, WUSTL, etc, and overseas universities.

And BTW, it’s hard to get A at Caltech EE, an average of A- in EE would make you a cream student :). The graduate students, however, are expected to get at least A-.