PhD Aerospace and double major

64lakers
Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:51:24 +0000

Thanks for the response, its definitely more valuable since you are in the program itself. Well I am looking at Stanford, UMich, GaTech as well. I was interested in EP but everyone I have talked to has said the same thing, there is no money. I was looking at Kasdin, Choueri and few others. Mainly dynamics (orbitals, space systems) or propulsion or maybe go a differnt track in fusion tech. My biggest push for the double major (apart from interest in physics) was the time period that i will be out of school before i start grad school.

Thing is, I am an international student and getting a job on space based technology is really difficult (Thanks to ITAR). SO i wanted to have options but turns out Fusion tech has the same issues.

Anyway, as a side note, what would make a strong application for grad school at princeton? I am hoping to go out with 3.7+ GPA, 3 years of research, possibly a paper and definitely an undergraduate thesis. Would that be good enough? Anything that would specifically enhance the application?