Engineer grad student transistion?

Engineerer
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:41:29 +0000

You bring a good point, I am considering working full time and going to school part time, but I’m just not sure if that is feasible due to the difficulty of an engineering grad program and the time required to finish a masters. I am going into my senior year and have to decide what I want to do, the only task that worries me about not getting into a good school besides my GPA is the GREs, if I applied to almost all Tier 1 schools, they require high entrance tests including PSU. This year I have to see the policies and what I can do to get any advantage in possibly getting into grad school at PSU (anywhere else for that matte) since I know they require GREs. I have done research at PSU just not ME related or with a ME professor, so maybe if I did that, I could have an edge that way.

Is it generally easier to be accepted at one’s home institution for grad school if they did undergrad there (even if different departments as well)?