<p>Hello,
I want to get in a gradschool in US from the list given below.</p>
<p>Massachusetts Ins. Of Tech.
Stanford University (CA)
Harvard
Berkeley University
Georgia Tech
Michigan University
Princeton Uni.
Purdue Uni.
California Ins. Of Tech.
University of İllinois
Cornell Uni.
Northwestern Uni.
Pennsylvania State Uni.
Columbia Uni. Fu Found.
Carnegie Mellon Uni.
University of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins
Uni.of Wisconsin
Duke Uni
Rice
Washington Uni.
Virginia Tech
Ohio State Uni
Rennsealer Polytech.
Uni. Of Maryland</p>
<p>I am a navy officer with a mechanical engineering bachelor degree. My gpa is 3,28, but average of my engineering lessons is 3,48. My gre quantitive 166/170 %94. I don’t have any research experience. But I have been working for two years as an officer. I have good reccomenders from academy, 3 profs, 1 dr, 1 assistant prof. My toefl ibt score is 87, and I can increase this. So, what are my chances to get in one of the schools above? Which school is easiest to get in?</p>
<p>Those are all very difficult schools to get into. To be perfectly honest, I don’t believe you will get into any of them with only a 3.3 GPA and no research experience.</p>
<p>That’s a long list and you should narrow it some. I also think you mean “University of Michigan” and “University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign” (there are multiple U Illinois campuses)</p>
<p>Are you interested in a master’s or a PhD? If you want a master’s degree in engineering, then you may be an acceptable applicant for some of these schools. The very top ones - Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Columbia, Purdue, GA Tech, Caltech, etc. - are going to have their pick of applicants and may have a higher average GPA than yours, but some of the other very good but lower-ranked engineering schools may take people with a 3.28 cumulative/3.48 major. Your research experience doesn’t matter so much for a master’s program; if you’ve worked for two years as a naval engineer than that should help a lot.</p>
<p>But for a PhD, you’re not a competitive candidate at all. It’s not really just your GPA; it’s also that you have no research experience. Test scores and good grades cannot make up for a lack of research experience in the sciences.</p>
<p>Thank you all. I am interested in mse. I will clarify my research experience. During my undergraduate years we had several trips for long distances which trains us (navy officers) for operating the mechanical systems. Of course there weren’t any papers but some of our non - engineering lessons were related with majors. So I had mini researches for those lessons. And I also make identifying researches which are actually not researches for me but tasks. Lastly my last year thesis was about internal combustion engines and I got AA. Within these two years my essential task was operating and maintaining mechanical systems like diesel engines. As I said I did not publish any pages and never been in a group of researchers. I will be a grad student with Naval Forces scholarship if I be accepted. In this case what is my chance to get in ANY of these schools. Which are these are the easiest ones to get in? Thx again.</p>
<p>Your list is just copied from the top 25 Mechanical Engineering programs in the US News rankings. This is not the best way to look for a program. You need to do more research into the individual schools and look at their admissions requirements. Given your GPA (I presume that it is not in the United States system because you have taken the TOEFL too), you should be starting with the schools which are less selective, say those from 50-75. Once you get a feeling for where you stand in comparison with the typically admitted student for a Masters, you can pick one or two attractive schools from among the more selective schools.</p>
<p>This is not a list that I created. It is prepared by government. I just have to select the easiest ones to have an acceptance. I am asking for which could be these easiest ones. Thx all</p>
<p>Even for MS programs, your chances with any of these school are slim. Please keep in mind that, unless your undergrad school/department has sent students with similar GPAs to a particular US school/department and they have done well, your 3.28/3.48 GPA will not be looked upon favorably.</p>
<p>I am going to apply for 6 universities. I really want to get into Princeton grad school for master’s degree. But when I looked at admissions I saw that most of these unis don’t have any gpa requirements. When I searched the Web for accepted student profile, as you said most of the accepted students have gpa above 3.5 but I don’t know it is cumulative or not. And also I noticed that gpa becomes more important when it is about demanding scholarship. I will try to write an outstanding sop and I think LORs will be good for me. I just want to apply for other unis to make my grad education started. So I am looking for the least qualified ones.</p>
<p>As I said before, these are the top 25 listed in the USNWR rankings. They are all extremely selective and you are at a great disadvantage. Most of your applications need to be to less selective universities.</p>
<p>Xraymancs, are you saying Rice is as selective as MIT? I have no other possibilities, so I have to choose some unis to apply from the list given. I am just asking for, for which university I have more chance to be accepted? Thanks again.</p>
<p>If you are restricted to only these universities (this seems very short-sighted on the part of your government!) then you need to look at the ones at the bottom for your best chances. You should contact them directly, however, to see what they say.</p>
In the context of graduate school applications, “research” specifically means participating in innovative research intended to produce new knowledge. If the answer already exists and you are simply repeating old research then it is useless here.</p>
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So your government is willing to send you to the US for a masters, but ONLY at a top-25 school? Your odds are not great, for reasons others have mentioned. Really, the rankings are more an indicator of exclusivity than anything else, so the schools ranked 20-25 will be easier to get into to than the schools ranked 1-6.</p>
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There is no real answer because graduate admissions in the US are very individual. It is not simply a matter of saying GPA X + GRE Y = admits at schools ranked Z or below.</p>
<p>What you need to do first is figure out what you will actually study based on your interests and preparation, and see which schools offer it. For example, as someone interested in remote sensing (in electrical engineering), applying to UC Berkeley (an elite school) would be useless because they don’t DO remote sensing - my application would go in the trash even if it was perfect, just because I was asking to do something they don’t do! So figure out some specific area(s) of ME that you want to study and in which you have done at least some senior-level coursework. Then eliminate those schools on the list that don’t offer that area(s).</p>
<p>THEN take the lowest-ranked departments left as your list. I do not think you are likely to get admitted, but it is a possibility at the masters level with external funding.</p>