<p>Hi everybody, it seems I am gonna apply some grad schools in US which are generally high-ranked. I am gonna introducee myself and state schools I wanna apply below. Please share your thoughts and advices. I really care regardless what you think.</p>
<p>-Studying mechatronics engineering in a private school in Turkey.(3.46 gpa so far)
-Studied 1 year in Rutgers-School of Engineering and got BSc. Applied Sciences in Engineering degree. That was a special program between my college and Rutgers.(graduated with 3.55 and high honour)
-Summer internship at Mercedes-Benz Turkey in R&D Department.
-Selected for Dean’s List in Bahcesehir 7-8 times in Bahcesehir and 1 time in Rutgers.
-Senior Design Project has placed 1st in department at “Best Project Demonstration” category.
-No research background, publication.
-Did not take GRE and TOEFL yet.
-Strong LoR’s.</p>
<p>Schools I wanna apply:
-UCLA
-Cornell
-GaTech
-Michigan
-Maryland
-KTH(Sweden)
-Imperial CL</p>
<p>PS: I know my stats do not look good enough for these high-ranked and competitively admitting schools but they are worth trying. Any opinion would help.</p>