arcadefire1027

It is a terminal Master's I'm after. Thanks for that link: that's very helpful. It seems like it would probably take more to get into a school like Stanford than what I've got right now. I wonder what the difference in competition is between schools say in the top 10. Would I have a significantly better chance at Princeton than at Stanford, for example? I'm struggling to find any information about admissions percentage and all that.

So, I'm currently a 3rd year at UCLA. I'm pretty new to graduate school admissions (I might be here until a 5th year so it's not super imminent for me). Here's my story so far...am I on track to getting into a top program? I'm only aiming for a Masters degree. Me: I transferred into UCLA this year from UCR. Cum. GPA: 3.86 Bunch of academic awards from UCR such as: Dean's Academic Distinction Award Chancellor's Honors List etc. Currently doing software engineering based research for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (two quarters so far, though I may do it all year or more) Accepted an internship for Qualcomm this next summer I reckon I can get a good score on the GRE's since I've historically done very well with standardized testing (I got a 2260 on the SATs) So I am on track? Is GPA very important to graduate schools? As in, is it super important that I keep up my GPA or if it fell to 3.7 would I still be on safe ground? Is more internship/research experience necessary to have a good shot at a good school? Basically, what are the most important factors to Masters admissions? Thank you ahead of time.