Grad school admission for a international student

Graduate School
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I’m currently a student at the EPFL (or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne if you prefer) and i’m graduating next year with a Bachelor of communication science engineering. My problem is that i’m looking into a MEM (master of engineering management) from a good grad school, but I don’t know if I can be accepted with my grades (average 4.3/6). I’m talking about schools like Northwestern (with has a great MEM+MBA program) Dartmouth, Duke or Stanford (the last is probably just a dream). A friend told me to try all of them, is it possible? Because they all ask for original letters of recommendation…</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

<p>P.S : sorry for the mistake “… for AN international student”</p>

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<p>Your situation is fairly unique, and I don’t think many people will be able to give you solid advice based on your school and scores (most people here are from the US).</p>

<p>Have you tried talking to professors at your school? There have probably been a few students before you that went in a similar route, so they could probably guide you better than us.</p>

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<p>My school has conversion scales for this. 4.3/6 is between 55-63(4.0-4.5) for the UK. So about a 59. In the US that’s approx. a 3.3 GPA.</p>

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<p>Do you have any sort of work experience or research experience?</p>