Age/Gender/Citizenship: 25, male, USA
Undergraduate degree/School/Year graduated: landscape architecture, flagship state school, 2019
GPA: 3.5
GRE: 167V/165Q, awaiting results of AW but will likely retake for higher verbal score
Work Experience: Internships with local LA firm and my city’s public works org in the transportation engineering and design component. Currently working for a housing nonprofit
Letters of recommendation: Director of the nonprofit I work for, LA department head from my university, and a prof with whom I am fairly close. Department head and professor are GSD alumni
Schools applying to: Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Penn, maybe 1-2 others. Pretty comfortable with the prospect of applying again next year hence the lack of “safety” schools
Leaning hard on my GRE scores and personal statement/writing samples