<p>I went to UIUC for mechanical engineering, and got accepted to MS at Ga Tech, MS at UIUC, MS at Purdue, PhD at TAMU, PhD at Maryland, MS at Michigan, MEng at Cornell, and PhD at RPI. I got denied from Berkeley, but that was about it, which I thought was pretty good for someone with my low GPA.</p>
<p>That’s pretty impressive. What school did you decide on? I am thinking of applying to grad school in ME too. Just wondering what are some top ten schools?</p>
<p>I actually decided on TAMU, but I am going for Aero. I went there because they have a massive system of windtunnels, including 2 hypersonic ones funded by AFRL and NASA Langley that I wanted to work on. I like it here quite a bit.</p>
<p>if i get, say a 770+ on the Q, what should i aim for for the verbal? would getting a 500 suffice?</p>
<p>500+ is fine. What school r u from?</p>
<p>top 10 state university</p>
<p>You’ll probably need a little higher than 500 then</p>
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<p>What makes you say that? Just because it isn’t MIT doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a respected program.</p>
<p>Well sadly it doesn’t.</p>
<p>Please help me understand you. Are you saying no school other than MIT is respectable? Not arguing that it’s the same caliber as MIT, but just that it’s <em>respectable</em>.</p>
<p>I would say the top ten schools are respectable.
Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CalTech, U. Michigan, UIUC, Georgia Tech and couple more.</p>
<p>of course Stanford, MIT, Berkeley and CalTech are in their own league</p>
<p>Sounds like you read into rankings a bit too much. There are many, many more respectable programs out there. Heck, you only include 4 of the major publics on your list, but leave off schools such as Virginia Tech, Purdue, UCLA, Wisconsin, Texas, and Texas A&M just to name a few. Then you don’t even acknowledge smaller programs like Rose Hulman, Harvey Mudd, RPI, Rice, or anything like that.</p>
<p>You can go anywhere just about in the top 30 or 40 (according to USNWR) and still go to a respectable school in the eyes of most engineers. Those few up at the top are more along the lines of being “prestigious” where they may get a certain few benefits of the doubt extended to them when offering interviews or financial aid at a grad school. Other than that, it is rather short-sighted to say that only the top 10 or so are respectable.</p>
<p>well i took the GRE today again and got an 800 on the Q but… a 410 on the verbal. do I need to retake the GRE AGAIN?? or will grad schools just care that i got a 490 on the previous test and consider that sufficient?</p>
<p>An 800Q is good enough. It’s strange you did so poorly on the verbal section, though. What’s your AW score like?</p>
<p>For engineers:
Math is usually around 750-800
Verbal is usually around 500-650
AW… no idea</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident about math but for some reason i feel im going to fail verbal so badly (tried sample tests)</p>
<p>Any speaker of English should be able to bluff a 500 on the GRE. I’m not trying to be harsh, but if you can’t get a 500, that’s just weird.</p>
<p>well on the practice exams, i usually got 500+ on the verbal. i even got a 570 on the one i took the day before the actual GRE</p>
<p>havent gotten my AW scores in the mail yet</p>
<p>It sounds like you just have test anxiety then. I think an 800Q is good enough that they may forgive your poor verbal scores, especially if the rest of your app makes up for it (research, GPA, references, etc.)</p>
<p>I got a 800 math/570 verbal and 5.0 AW. 3.96 GPA from a decent private university. Research, math tutoring for 3 years for the school of engineering. Would this be good enough, provided I get good recs and a strong SOP, to get into a top 10 engineering school</p>