PhD Aerospace and double major

RacinReaver
Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:12:54 +0000

Propulsion is a bit outside of my realm of expertise, sadly. You might want to look at both faculty in GALCIT (the aero program), applied physics, and physics. Each of the departments has a very different flavor.

I wound up with my coadvisor through connections of my advisor. It’s generally not a very formal thing, just that some labs may collaborate with JPL than others. Depending on the direction your work takes, you might wind up spending a decent amount of time up there.

Also, I will agree with what you said about MIT requiring a very high GPA. I know in my field only one person from my undergrad department got in (and we all got in just about everywhere). She said they seemed to be taking everyone with an astronomical GPA, and she was amazed how many people didn’t even have any previous research experience. This might just be my field, though.