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I graduated from Georgia Tech undergraduate last year and applied to Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, and Georgia Tech. I believed I had a legitimate shot at Stanford and Berkeley beside my GPA (since GPA is really gimped in Georgia Tech) 560 Verbal / 780 Quantitative / 4.0 Writing Overall GPA: 3.4 (This is high honor from Georgia Tech) Major GPA: 3.6 Got acceptance letter from UIUC, CMU, Georgia Tech master program but my dream schools are Stanford and Berkeley. I wonder if my recommendation letters / SOP were bad or graduate school admission just see GPA digits..... Anyway, what I would like to know is that I know CMU is great in computer science area but does that great education in CS reflects on electrical engineer not just computer engineer program? Concentration that I am going for are Telecommunication and RF engineer (Heavily on RF wireless communication side). I don't know much about UIUC but I know by ranking, Electrical Engineer is higher in UIUC than Georgia Tech. I will go visit UIUC this month to see if this school is for me but I would like to know from someone who goes to UIUC EE program. Also, anyone changed his/her master program from one school to another while in master program? I am considering to retake my GRE and get my verbal above 600 to increase my chance of getting into other schools.

I graduated from Georgia Tech undergraduate last year and applied to Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, and Georgia Tech. I believed I had a legitimate shot at Stanford and Berkeley beside my GPA (since GPA is really gimped in Georgia Tech) 560 Verbal / 780 Quantitative / 4.0 Writing Overall GPA: 3.4 (This is high honor from Georgia Tech) Major GPA: 3.6 Got acceptance letter from UIUC, CMU, Georgia Tech master program but my dream schools are Stanford and Berkeley. I wonder if my recommendation letters / SOP were bad or graduate school admission just see GPA digits..... Anyway, what I would like to know is that I know CMU is great in computer science area but does that great education in CS reflects on electrical engineer not just computer engineer program? Concentration that I am going for are Telecommunication and RF engineer (Heavily on RF wireless communication side). I don't know much about UIUC but I know by ranking, Electrical Engineer is higher in UIUC than Georgia Tech. I will go visit UIUC this month to see if this school is for me but I would like to know from someone who goes to UIUC EE program. Also, anyone changed his/her master program from one school to another while in master program? I am considering to retake my GRE and get my verbal above 600 to increase my chance of getting into other schools.