cbowen11

I'm talking about the Aero/Astro

Guess MIT is a no go. Too bad, pretty confusing when people with 3.0 gpa and a 316 GRE get accepted. Experience is great and all, but those stats are pathetic.

Not sure but like shim12 said, i think they did most of their mechanical acceptances for MIT already. For you aero/astro MIT applicants, it looks like maybe next week we will hear back. They pretty consistently send acceptances the final week of Feb, on Monday, and rejections later that week.

Nice! Yeah I think i have a shot a Gtech, but MIT is a pipe dream.

Q-165 V-161 AW-4.5

Wisconsin (Mechanical) (in). Ohio State (in), NC State(in), UT-Austin (flying out for tour but no official acceptance yet), Notre Dame (contacted by faculty member about visiting for admitted students day but no official acceptance). Still waiting on MIT, GT, Illinois, Washington, ASU, and Minnesota.

They really do take a while longer than most other engineering disciplines. Aerospace is on the same footing in terms of time. I've only heard from maybe half. MIT doesn't get back to people until the last week of February...pretty late in the game

So my post on the results search got deleted. lol Wanted to get some thoughts about the posters who recently applied to Stanford with bad GRE scores (157Q and 150V for example), and posted saying it's ridiculous that Stanford looks so heavily at GRE scores when they have so much experience and blah blah blah. Am I crazy or does it make complete sense to me to use the GRE to weed trough the hundreds to thousands of applicants? The person I am referring to said it's a test with a bunch of tricky math problems and traps and not a good indicator. To me, if it's that simple, then why can't you get above a 157? Also, I would think that someone wanting to go to Stanford can score higher than a 150 on the verbal with no practice. I'm an engineer and I scored a 161 with literally zero prep. A 150 shows an average (at best) level of reading comprehension and Stanford is an elite school. Why should they let everyone with average GRE scores and experience in? They'd have to accept nearly everyone. Just a pathetic gripe by that poster imo.

Unfortunately it's all over the place. You get one or two in December. Maybe on or two more in January. Quite a few in February. And some leak into March which sucks.

I only have much experience with the Aerospace application process but I think your chances are pretty good at the majority of those. My GRE scores are a bit higher but my GPA is lower and when I applied a couple years ago I got into all of the schools I applied to. I have research experience but nothing amazing, and good letters of rec. I'm applying to some of the top dogs this time just for kicks. Anyone have any idea what the ideal profile is for MIT? I'm right around their average GRE scores, but other than that it's hard to tell what exactly they look for.

I saw the Chem-E's get their own board started and figured I'd give this a shot. I have heard back from three schools so far and gotten into all of them (Wisconsin-Mech, OSU-Aero, ND-Aero). Still have quite a few to go, but I think that the acceptances will be scattered throughout the end of January through early March. Anyone else get any responses yet?

Depends on your letters of Rec but I'd say yes. I don't know what it's like for ECE, but I am a MechE with a minor in Aerospace and got into some top 20 schools with a 3.76 and a 160 on both sections of the GRE. I actually didn;t get rejected anywhere so I retook the GRE and pulled a 165Q and 161 V, and am hoping to get into a top10 school. But yeah idk what those programs are ranked for your field but I can;t imagine they are like top 10, and that said I think you will get in for sure.

I scored a 161 V /165Q with a 4.5 AW. I have a 3.7 GPA and research experience. Without getting to into the details of my resume, is this score good enough to get into a top 10 aerospace Ph.D. program, assuming that the rest of my application is solid? Any chances for a fellowship or should I retake?

I scored a 161 V /165Q with a 4.5 AW. I have a 3.7 GPA and research experience. Without getting to into the details of my resume, is this score good enough to get into a top 10 aerospace Ph.D. program, assuming that the rest of my application is solid? Any chances for a fellowship or should I retake? Thanks

Anyone who has had experience with some of these schools please weigh in. A year ago (approx), I applied to a few PhD Aerospace programs (Ohio State, Notre Dame, ASU), and was accepted into all of them. I took a year off to work and take care of some family health issues and am reapplying. I improved my GRE quite a bit, so I added some higher ranked programs to the list this time. I realize a couple are pure reachers but I want some feedback as to which might be realistic for me. I applied to the same 3 i did before, and added the likes of UT Austin, Illinois, Minnesota, MIT, Georgia Tech and Washington. If you've been accepted or rejected to these in the past I'd like to hear what you think. I graduated from a smaller state school with a 3.71 GPA in mechanical engineering and a minor in aerospace. Had a semester of research experience, helped author a journal article, and had a conference/presentation, etc. I also worked internships and other jobs while in school, and have worked for a DOD company this past year. I scored a 165 quant, 161 verbal, and 4.5 AW.