<p>Hello Guys! I am new here and I am really amazed that I found this website. I wish everyone to succeed in any college he/she wishes to go and throughout his/her academic career.</p>
<p>Regarding my matter now, I would like to ask you a question regarding the following universities: University of Mississippi (OleMiss),South Dakota school of Mine, University of Idaho and University of Alaska-Fairbanks.</p>
<p>I am a prospective Geological Engineering graduate student having a major in Engineering Geology. My undergraduate overall GPA is 2.8/4.00 but the GPA of my last two academic years as well as the GPA of my last 60 credit hours are 3.10/4.00 and 3.18/4.00 respectively. I also have 1.5 year of research and working experience as well as two published papers (International and Pan-European conferences) and the third one currently in review. My GRE scores are somewhere in the middle (Q150 V143 AW3.0) and my IELTS is Band 7.0.
My first question is, what are my chances for gaining admission into these schools? And my second question is, which of these schools have more recruiting companies during the career days and have a better reputation in the market?</p>
<p>Thank you very very much. Every single tip and opinion will be highly appreciated! </p>
<p>Admission to Graduate studies is very different from its undergraduate counterpart. Can’t comment on that.</p>
<p>As for reputation, SDSM&T is quite solid. Career services overall at Mines is fairly good. I suggest you peruse one of the school publications, such as “Legacy News,” to get a feel for what kind of companies come to Mines to recruit.</p>
<p>Idaho doesn’t require the GRE, and only requires a 3.0 GPA for the last 60 credit hours so I would say you stand a decent chance getting into that school.</p>
<p>I have a friend who got his NukeE PhD at Idaho and said he liked it. He’s now a post-doc at Los Alamos. Not too shabby if you ask me.</p>
<p>I live in Idaho. I can’t speak for your major, but UI’s overall reputation for engineering is pretty solid. Winters do get nasty in Moscow though.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for everything guys one by one…I know that winters do get nasty at idaho but if it is a good and respected engineering school then I think I can live with the “winter” problem. How is it living in Idaho-Moscow? Is there a nightlife and generally places to hang out?And how are people there?Are they friendly or conservative? ( I now these questions are irrelevant with my initial post but I would like to know some things from somebody who lives there )</p>
<p>Moscow is a college town through and through. There’s the university, some strip malls, a bunch of bars, and that’s really about it. Students there seem to be fine. I can’t speak to the politics of the student body, but I know that Kootenai county is one of only two counties in the state of Idaho that reliably votes Democrat.</p>
<p>KF7LCE thank you very much for your reply.I made a fallacy by using the word conservative l. I meant conservative behavior in terms of how they are doing with the out of state and international people,if they warare friendly etc. Political beliefs do mean nothing to me. …tI really thank you all for your replies but I haven’t yet found out which school is better,and what are my chances?? :p</p>
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