Materials Science and Engineering Grad School Admissions Chances

RacinReaver
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:23:01 +0000

I had similar stats to you coming from CMU (major in MSE with a minor in physics) and I got into about half of the schools I applied to (mostly top-10 programs).

I’ve heard MIT has a GPA cutoff around 3.8 which they don’t advertise, but of the people I know who have been admitted, is true.

Try talking with professors in your department to find out where people with similar stats as you have gotten into. Be sure to spend time reading faculty webpages and figuring out who you’d like to work with so you don’t waste applications on schools you wouldn’t really like to go to in the end.