<p>What does it take GPA/GRE wise to get into MIT for a graduate engineering program?</p>
<p>I attend Iowa State University. Do I stand a chamce to go to grad school at MIT?</p>
<p>It’s hard to say. Every year it is getting exponentially more competitive at top schools like MIT. Additionally, GPA and GRE scores are a high pass filter to get you considered, after which you will need to show that you are a great student with tenacity and perseverance through your letters of recommendation and statement of purpose (more important than GPA and GRE), and show that you have far more research experience than the average applicant.</p>
<p>GPA/GRE scores and quantitative measures of your success go out the door once you start looking at top 10 schools. Every department at every college in the world has someone who is ranked #1 in the department, and lots of those students apply to MIT and other top 5 engineering schools. This means that there are WAY more people with perfect 4.0s than MIT can admit in one year. MIT will take all of those people with 3.5s and higher and start looking at research experience, publications, and letters of recommendation to find the best of the best.</p>
<p>That said, I’d suspect average GPA for incoming graduate students is ~3.9, average GRE for quantitative somewhere from 165 to 170. Of course, in rare occasions they MIGHT accept someone with a 3.5 GPA so long as that person has numerous publications, demonstrates that they have strong drive and a research topic in mind, and has excellent letters of recommendation (2 or 3 of the letters would probably have to say something along the lines of “I went to a top 5 school and I have never seen a student who would be as beneficial to X field in my entire life”).</p>
<p>Students from any school can get accepted. I once read an admissions officer mention that the top 1% of students from all schools are of roughly the same caliber, while the top 10% are much better from highly ranked schools than from lower down schools. If you’re in that top 1% (>3.9 GPA, perfect GRE quantitative, a few publications, good letters) you will probably be considered in the same boat as students who did their undergrad at the top 5 schools. However, if you have the same stats as somebody else and the admissions committee is on the line, they will pick the student who did their undergrad at Stanford over Iowa state.</p>
<p>Unfortunately it’s pretty rough out there, and getting rougher each year. However, all the hard work is definitely worth it if you can rise to the top and go to a school like MIT</p>
<p>funny how you mentioned iowa state and stanford… anyways…</p>