CanuckBoy Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Let's revive the engineering section. Undergrad Institution: Well known Canadian engineering school Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 86% Position in Class: Top 15-10% Type of Student: Canadian (Domestic) Graduate Institution: Same school Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 89% Type of Student: Canadian (Domestic) GRE Scores: Q: 800 (94%) V: 500 (63%) W: 4.0 (45%) Research Experience: 1 year in MEMS design 1 year in electronic cooling 1 year in computational fluid dynamics Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Various institutional, provincial, and national awards Applying for [ PhD ] at: Georgia Tech - Mechanical Engineering MIT - Mechanical Engineering MIT - Nuclear Engineering Purdue - Mechanical Engineering Southern California - Mechanical Engineering Stanford - Mechanical Engineering Toronto - Mechanical Engineering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wink_e Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Here's a middle of the range person for ya... Undergrad Institution: University of Western Australia Major(s): Chemical Engineering GPA in Major: 72% Position in Class: - Type of Student: Australian GRE Scores: Q: 790 (91%) V: 570 (79%) W: 4.0 (48%) Research Experience: 1 year thesis Awards/Honors/Recognitions: FA Applying for [ PhD ] at: Colorado Northwestern Minnesota Purdue Pennsylvania Notre Dame Pittsburgh Iowa State Iowa Michigan State wink_e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brassgod Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) The profile template is below. Check out the prvious years profiles threads too. ______________________________________________ Undergrad Institution: (School or type of school, such as big state, lib arts, ivy, technical, foreign (what country?)... Overall Reputation in Physics?) Major(s): Minor(s): GPA in Major: Overall GPA: Length of Degree: (Are you graduating after 3, 4, or 5 years?) Position in Class: (No numbers needed, but are you top? near top? average? struggling?) Type of Student: (Domestic/International, male/female, minority?) GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: V: W: P: TOEFL Total: (if applicable, otherwise delete this) Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...) Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...) Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Applying to Where: School - Department - Research Interest School - Department - Research Interest School - Department - Research Interest ______________________________________________ Thanks to quizivex for the template from previous years. Edited December 14, 2011 by brassgod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wink_e Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 c'mon people! anyone else? wink_e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icthere Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Undergrad Institution: Good reputation! Major(s): Electrical and Computer Engineering Minor(s): GPA in Major: Overall GPA: 3.1/4.0 (Not sure about the conversion) Length of Degree: 5 years Position in Class: Average Type of Student: International GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 800 (94%) V: 590 (84%) W: 3.5 (29%) -- Don't get me started!!! TOEFL Total: 118/120 Research Experience: 18 months at a lab on campus, resulted in two published conference papers (first author), one submitted to a major conference (first author), one submitted to a reputable journal (second author) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Nothing special Pertinent Activities or Jobs: one semester TA Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Special Bonus Points: Very Strong LORs!!! Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Applying to Where: CMU Michigan Princeton Maryland UW-Madison UCSD Columbia Minnesota UCDavis UCI Boston I know...Already planning for a second round next year!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voxelite Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Private University, decent reputation Major: Physics Minors: Computer Science, Mathematics GPA in Major: 3.76 Overall GPA: 3.59 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: No idea Type of Student: Domestic "multicultural" male GRE Scores (old version): Q: 800 (94%) V: 800 (99%) W: 5.0 (87%) Research Experience: 3 years at university, 1 summer at a national lab, 2 presentations at national conferences, 2 coauthor publications (still under review) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: National Merit Scholar Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA and RA Special Bonus Points: Great letters of recommendation Applying for PhD programs at: Northwestern - Materials Science Duke - Electrical Engineering Harvard - SEAS Engineering Sciences UIUC - Materials Science WashU - Materials Science Invited to Duke open house, otherwise all pending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George2248 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Well known Venezuelan private University Major(s): Civil Engineering GPA in Major: 16.70/20 Position in Class: 1st Type of Student: International GRE Scores: Q: 760 V: 600 W: 4.5 Research Experience: Thesis Research Project Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Scholarship, Best GPA in Faculty Applying for [ MS ] at: Berkeley Stanford Columbia Illinois UC Duke TAMU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechapplicant2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Good University in Iran Major(s): Mechanical Engineering Overall GPA: 17/20 Length of Degree: 4 Years Position in Class: Top 15% Type of Student: International grad Institution: Good university in the Netherlands. Rank: Top 100 in Engineering worldwide Major(s): Master, Mechanical Engineering Overall GPA: 8.5/10 (It is excellent on Netherland's scale) Length of Degree: 2 Years Position in Class: Top 10% Type of Student: International GRE Scores (old version): Q: 800 V: 500 W: 3.5 TOEFL Total: 113 Research Experience: 1 Publication (first out of 3 authors) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Scholarship Recipient during Masters Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I did have contact with Supervisors from all Universities I applied to, exchanging 3-4 emails, but I was only encouraged, no promises were made! Good Recommendations from Professors. Applying to Where: Stanford - Materials Science and Eng. Harvard - Mech. Caltech- Mech. Geogia Tech - Materials science and eng. Nortwestern - Mech. UCSD- Mech. TEXAS A&M- Aerospace Eng. Edited January 13, 2012 by mechapplicant2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICE 9JA Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) I would like to start by saying these type of chats are really interesting especially the physics and math ones. Hopefully, the engineering one becomes booming like that soon. Also, I would like to write small details about mine if it is interesting Undergrad Institution: Small Midwest Liberal Arts School, known regionally and pretty good in engineering to my surprise Major(s): Mechanical Engineering Minor(s): Engineering Management, Mathematics (Just added the math one my final semester because I had time) GPA in Major: 3.944 (got my first B+ in an engineering subject in my senior design class because of a bad team) Overall GPA: 3.817 (had C average in the two freshman year seminar classes...its a bunch of BS anyway) Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: either 1st or 2nd (the girl doesnt speak of her gpa...haha) Type of Student: International male GRE Scores (old version): BTW the GRE is just an annoying exam I had to prepare for while working full time at an engineering firm Q: 800 (94%) expected it going in but didnt after taking the test but thank God it happened V: 370 (26%) I memorized a lot of frequent words from Barrons, only 3 came out...hahaha my luck right W: 3.5 (27%) expected a 4 cuz I did not prepare for this section and I thought I nailed one of the essays down TOEFL Total: graduating from the US so it would be waived...hopefully...haha Research Experience: not really. My senior project is on study of vortex shedding frequency of a wind turbine blade. I am in charge of the experimental part using a suction type wind tunnel to test it. Wrote all the LabVIEW programs, designed the experiment. Also perfoming modal analysis on the blade model to compare my results to the natural blade frequency Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's list every semester...kinda cool I thought....in various honor societies...nothing overly special Pertinent Activities or Jobs: well I am working part time at Dana Holding Corporation after my full time job during the summer...not research related obviously Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Not sure Special Bonus Points: One of my recommender graduated from MIT and Michigan and gave me a stellar LOR (He is quite famous and studied witha professor at Clemson) Also, another one is the Dean of the engineering department and knows me quite well (school is quite small so no biggie....besides I am the only black guy in the graduating mechanical engineering department....hahaha). All the rest were great LOR apart from my academic advisor who wrote one for Michigan (that may just kill my application there...ow well). Had a decent SOP that reflects my interest a little. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I m 20. I am from Nigeria ...just wanted to say that somewhere...hahaha. Taking a percussion class because I want to learn to play the drums...dont judge me...hahaha. Also not a lot of tough classes this final semester. I have already taking Combustion which is done only in graduate school..I think...haha. Applying to Where: All PhD positions in mechanical engineering except for MIT and Stanford because they do not accept direct entry into the PhD programs. Research interest are in Thermodynamics (Energy Conversion..more or less), Combustion, Fluid mechanics and heat transfer MIT Stanford Caltech CMU UTexas Michigan Rice Cornell Princeton Georgia Tech Clemson(my only safety)- Accepted (no funding yet) (Jan 2nd on the site) Hope this is good for everyone and yeah...GOODLUCK to everyone and I hope you get to the grad school of your choice _________________________________ Edited January 13, 2012 by ICE 9JA ICE 9JA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICE 9JA Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Good University in Iran Major(s): Mechanical Engineering Overall GPA: 17/20 Length of Degree: 4 Years Position in Class: Top 15% Type of Student: International grad Institution: Good university in the Netherlands. Rank: Top 100 in Engineering worldwide Major(s): Master, Mechanical Engineering Overall GPA: 8.5/10 (It is excellent on Netherland's scale) Length of Degree: 2 Years Position in Class: Top 10% Type of Student: International GRE Scores (old version): Q: 800 V: 500 W: 3.5 TOEFL Total: 113 Research Experience: 1 Publication (first out of 3 authors) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Scholarship Recipient during Masters Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I did have contact with Supervisors from all Universities I applied to, exchanging 3-4 emails, but I was only encouraged, no promises were made! Good Recommendations from Professors. Applying to Where: Stanford - Materials Science and Eng. Harvard - Mech. Caltech- Mech. Geogia Tech - Materials science and eng. Nortwestern - Mech. UCSD- Mech. TEXAS A&M- Aerospace Eng. BTW good luck on yours and we may even end up in the same department or school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechapplicant2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 BTW good luck on yours and we may even end up in the same department or school Good luck to you too man! I am dying of anticipation as of now! Hopefully it is going to be Stanford or Caltech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocortex Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Singapore Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 4.9/5.0 Position in Class: Top 1% Type of Student: International Graduate Institution: Well known US engineering school Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 4.1/4.0 Position in Class: Don't know Type of Student: International GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 690 W: 4.5 Research Experience: 4 years in university and in industry. Few pubs. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Awards from professional institution, fellowships etc Applying for [ PhD ] at: MIT - Mechanical Engineering CMU - Mechanical Engineering Berkeley - Mechanical Engineering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICE 9JA Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Singapore Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 4.9/5.0 Position in Class: Top 1% Type of Student: International Graduate Institution: Well known US engineering school Major(s): Mechanical Engineering GPA in Major: 4.1/4.0 Position in Class: Don't know Type of Student: International GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 690 W: 4.5 Research Experience: 4 years in university and in industry. Few pubs. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Awards from professional institution, fellowships etc Applying for [ PhD ] at: MIT - Mechanical Engineering CMU - Mechanical Engineering Berkeley - Mechanical Engineering Dude good luck bro ur stats are on FIREEEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse_nerve Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Big State School, solid/ top 30 ranked engineering, US Major(s): Mechanical Engineering Minor(s): Mathematics Overall GPA: 3.45/4.0 Length of Degree: 4 years Type of Student: Hispanic Male American Citizen GRE Scores (old version): Q:800 (94%) V: 630 (91%) W: 4 (45%) Research Experience: Year long honors thesis in deployment dynamics of a small satellite. Worked with professor at university and afrl Awards/Honors/Recognitions: several scholarships/recognitions within university, no national awards Pertinent Activities or Jobs: honor society stuff Applying to Where: Columbia Johns Hopkins Princeton U. Penn RPI U. Maryland U. Michigan Cornell All Mechanical Engineering PhD except Michigan which is Aerospace Engineering PhD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyseven Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wink_e, here is my profile as a fellow middle-ranged chemical engineer, good luck to us both: Undergrad Institution: top engineering institute in Indonesia Major(s): Chemical Engineering Minor(s): --- GPA in Major: --- Overall GPA: 3.74/4.00 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: top 5 %, 4 of 91 Type of Student: International GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 162 (87%) V: 154 (64%) W: 3.5 (29%) TOEFL Total: (106) Research Experience: (1.5 years during master degree, 1 year during undergraduate) Applying to Where: (mainly driven by location for personal reason) Purdue - Chemical Engineering Illinois Urbana Champaign - Chemical Engineering Northwestern - Chemical Engineering Ohio State University- Chemical Engineering Notre Dame - Chemical Engineering Illinois Chicago - Chemical Engineering Cornell - Chemical Engineering wink_e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilalahmed1324 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Undergrad institution: the best school in my country... Major: EE GPA: 3.59/4 Major GPA : 3.65/4 Length of Degree: 4 years International student GRE Scores: Q:780 ( please comment whether this is low score) V:640 A: 3.0 ( it is really low .. i dont know what is wrong with this AW section..plz comment ) Research: 1 year experience in my college lab ( which i initiated myself on autonomous systems) ( no published papers though) Awards/Scholarships: Awarded fellowship that completely funded my undergrad degree national awards in high school Won a very hefty funding for my department from University grant for a start up lab........ Job experience: 2 years as electronics engineer in a multinational working on radio communication test equipment Applying: UIUC UC santa barbara Texas A&M Vtech Uni of Florida Colorado boulder.... Can anyone in this forum can comment on my chances in above universities ? Please thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICE 9JA Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Undergrad institution: the best school in my country... Major: EE GPA: 3.59/4 Major GPA : 3.65/4 Length of Degree: 4 years International student GRE Scores: Q:780 ( please comment whether this is low score) V:640 A: 3.0 ( it is really low .. i dont know what is wrong with this AW section..plz comment ) Research: 1 year experience in my college lab ( which i initiated myself on autonomous systems) ( no published papers though) Awards/Scholarships: Awarded fellowship that completely funded my undergrad degree national awards in high school Won a very hefty funding for my department from University grant for a start up lab........ Job experience: 2 years as electronics engineer in a multinational working on radio communication test equipment Applying: UIUC UC santa barbara Texas A&M Vtech Uni of Florida Colorado boulder.... Can anyone in this forum can comment on my chances in above universities ? Please thanks BTW ur GRE Q score is just right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca8 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Imperial College London (world rank 15 in CS) Major(s): Computer Science Minor(s): Electrical Engineering GPA in Major: First Class Honours Overall GPA: First Class Honours Length of Degree: 3 years Position in Class: Rank 2 Type of Student: International Graduate Institution: Imperial College London Major(s): Computer Science GPA in Major: Distinction Position in Class: Don't know Type of Student: International GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 168 V: 156 W:4.5 P: Research Experience: 3 years of research work, one top journal paper and two patents Awards/Honors/Recognitions: some scholarshis and awards, nothing serious Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Researcher in R&D department of a major tech company Special Bonus Points: World-class recommenders Applying to Where: MIT Stanford UC-Berkeley UIUC (ECE) CMU (ECE) Princeton Uni of Texas at Austin Cornell USC Edited January 19, 2012 by Rebecca8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilalahmed1324 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 @ ICE 9JA Thanks for your reply....... And yes we should make this thread more lively.... we should discuss more... And anyone please should i contact professors specially those i have indicated in my application ? And since i dont have a reserch paper and i am applying for direct PHD how should i approach? And based on my profile and the university selection i would really appreciate if anyone can comment on my chances? Am i targeting too high universities based on my profile ? Thanks ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSUGrad11 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Big State School, top 25 ranked engineering, US Major(s): Electrical Engineering Overall GPA: 3.61/4.0 Length of Degree: 4 and a half years Type of Student: Domestic GRE Scores (old version): Q: 800 (94%) V: 660 (94%) W: 4 (45%) Research Experience: Semester long poster project on computational stability analysis of hybrid control systems Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's List Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 2 Internships with top telecommuncations company , 7 month co-op with industrial company, 1 Internship with top aerospace company Applying to Where: Berkeley U. Wash UCLA USC U. Maryland Penn State All Electrical Engineering MS/PHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lkh5650 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Undergrad Institution: Canadian School, top engineering school Major(s): Nanotechnology Engineering Minor(s): GPA in Major: 3.45 Overall GPA: 3.45 Length of Degree: 5 years Position in Class: Average Type of Student: Canadian, Male, Asian GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q:167/95% V:150/48% W:4.5/72% P: TOEFL Total: (if applicable, otherwise delete this) Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...) over 2 years of research experience visited caltech/stanford twice for research collaboration Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) 4 publications (2 first-authors and 2 co-authors) Deans honors list... Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...) Famous recommender, everyone knows her in her field Applying to Where: Harvard- SEAS-Materials Science And Engineering UPENN-Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Tech-Materials Science and Engineering UC Berkeley-Materials Science and Engineering Caltech-Materials Science and Engineering MIT-Materials Science and Engineering UCSD-Materials Science and Engineering Stanford-Materials Science and Engineering Cornell-Materials Science and Engineering Princeton-Aerospace/Mech Engineering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICE 9JA Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) @ ICE 9JA Thanks for your reply....... And yes we should make this thread more lively.... we should discuss more... And anyone please should i contact professors specially those i have indicated in my application ? And since i dont have a reserch paper and i am applying for direct PHD how should i approach? And based on my profile and the university selection i would really appreciate if anyone can comment on my chances? Am i targeting too high universities based on my profile ? Thanks ..... First of all, your profile is fine...dont worry...if you are aiming high, what should i be thinking...you can't succeed without aiming high. On that note, try and email one professor at each school to get your name out there now that they are beginning to look at applications. I even emailed some professors I did not mention in my SOP just to have more options. hope that helps and goodluck...I am sure you will be fine Edited January 20, 2012 by ICE 9JA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lkh5650 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I feel like my profile is not good enough to get into any of the schools I have applied to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonylee Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Undergrad Institution: regular engineerig U in China Major(s): Mechatronics Overall GPA: 83% Position in Class: 5% grad Institution: Good engineering U in China Major(s): Master, Robotics Overall GPA: 90% Position in Class: 5% GRE Scores (old version):Q: 800 V: 620 W: 3 TOEFL Total: 110 Research Experience: 1 jorunal, 1 conference 1 patent 1 in revision and 1 domestic journal (all first author) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: nothing fancy Applying to Where: listed in my signature recommendors: professors with little reputation Research Experience: RA as graduate Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 2 interns at EU companies Special Bonus Points: If there's anything. I would say my research work is highly independent and self-oriented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonylee Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 seems that I have the worst background here. Anyway, it feels much better to talk with someone during this horrible waiting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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