George2248

I checked the website of Gatech and it looks pretty good. However, I couldnt find and Engineering Management or Construction Management Program. Is there any program that you were suggesting? No te fastidio mas! sorry

Use free online pratice test as much as you can and practice in the same test conditions. This websites have good free tests: princeton, kaplans, manhatan and Power Prep. Google them and start practicing

Vaya Guille gracias por la ayuda te estare escribiendo entonces. Me dices que quedaste en Ilinois Urbana, para que período? Que otras Universidades aplicaste?

I am a little bit lost. Having no experiences at all in the US educational system. I havent even met a student who got accepted at these Schools. I am all by myself in this process, from a country where not many plan to go to Graduate School in the US. So I was just wondering if anyone have any advice or even a personal experience on how this Programs Admission process works, specially towards International Students. I am confident that I can make a great application, I have been top of my class in every school I have attended in my country, I think I got great GRE scores (specially Verbal which I didnt expected) and, most importantly, I have a clear interest into what I want to study and why I am applying to those programs. I dont have a lot or work experience but Ive been working for a year now in a position related to Engineering Management. I think I just need someone with actual experience in this process to help me focus my expectations.

Ok I just took the GRE and I now have a more complete profile for my application. I plan to apply to a MS in Construction Management, Engineering and Project Management or Engineering Management in the following Universities: 1. Berkeley (CEE Department) 2. Stanford (CEE Department) 3. Columbia (CEE Department) 4. Illinois Urbana (CEE Department) 5. Cornell (Engineering Management Dept.) 6. Duke (Engineering Management Dept.) My profile is the following: I finished my BS in Civil Engineering 4 months ago in a Top University in Caracas, Venezuela. I graduated top of a 20 students class and my GPA is 17/20 (about 3.4) I have no background or experience in the US education system. I just studied English for 6 months in LA after I graduated from Highschool. I have been working in a my family Construction Company for about a year. I did my intership there. I did a research thesis in order to obtain my BS, its subjects related to construction planning and control. I have relatively good LOR, specially the professor I did my thesis with, but since they are professors that do not speak English fluently I am a little afraid they might not be perfect. My GRE scores are: 740 - 800 MATH , 630 - 730 VERBAL Ok with this profile, I was wondering If I should be aiming to the top Engineering Universities as I mentioned, or should I lower my expectations? Also If anyone have any experience of International students getting in successfully in those top Programs I appreciate your feedback.... Thanks for your time and help

Do lots of practices test online, thats the only way to get used to thes stress of the exam. I recomend: kaplan's free test, manhatan's test package, even princeton tests. Do all of them and your scores will benefit

I am afraid I might end up with nothing, maybe I need some safety schools

Ok they basically ask me to express my motivations, aptitudes, and career goals. My problem is that I dont know how the tone and writting should be. For example, in many samples SOP I see that people tend to use narration style, or agumentative, or literary structure and not a straighfoward answer what they ask. Since I havent seen any samples for the kind of Program I am applying I am a little confuse about this. Thanks for the tips!

My reasoning was exactly the opposite

I think I can help you. I am doing mine on an MEM

I opened this topic because I see many treads about advice and tips for SOP for Phd Programs, many of them in Humanities Programs. I wanted to open a discussion about how an SOP for an Engineering Master Program (in my case Engineering Management) is supposed to be focus and approach. Since this Professional Master are not as focus in Research I am a bit confused as to how the SOP model should be. Does it have to be in any literary form? or just straight answer to the Program questions? How do people generally approach their SOP for this kind of Programs? also MBA SOP or other MS can be helpful to in this discussion. Thanks for the help and time.

I opened this topic because I see many treads about advice and tips for SOP for Phd Programs, many of them in Humanities Programs. I wanted to open a discussion about how an SOP for an Engineering Master Program (in my case Engineering Management) is supposed to be focus and approach. Since this Professional Master are not as focus in Research I am a bit confused as to how the SOP model should be. Does it have to be in any literary form? or just straight answer to the Program questions? How do people generally approach their SOP for this kind of Programs? also MBA SOP or other MS can be helpful to in this discussion. Thanks for the help and time.

It is definitely stressing, specially when you are relying on a score in the top range

Ok I just took the GRE and I now have a more complete profile for my application. I plan to apply to a MS in Construction Management, Engineering and Project Management or Engineering Management in the following Universities: 1. Berkeley (CEE Department) 2. Stanford (CEE Department) 3. Columbia (CEE Department) 4. Illinois Urbana (CEE Department) 5. Cornell (Engineering Management Dept.) 6. Duke (Engineering Management Dept.) My profile is the following: I finished my BS in Civil Engineering 4 months ago in a Top University in Caracas, Venezuela. I graduated top of a 20 students class and my GPA is 17/20 (about 3.4) I have no background or experience in the US education system. I just studied English for 6 months in LA after I graduated from Highschool. I have been working in a my family Construction Company for about a year. I did my intership there. I did a research thesis in order to obtain my BS, its subjects related to construction planning and control. I have relatively good LOR, specially the professor I did my thesis with, but since they are professors that do not speak English fluently I am a little afraid they might not be perfect. My GRE scores are: 740 - 800 MATH , 630 - 730 VERBAL Ok with this profile, I was wondering If I should be aiming to the top Engineering Universities as I mentioned, or should I lower my expectations? Also If anyone have any experience of International students getting in successfully in those top Programs I appreciate your feedback.... Thanks for your time and help

Any feedback?

Ok I just took the GRE and I now have a more complete profile for my application. I plan to apply to a MS in Construction Management, Engineering and Project Management or Engineering Management in the following Universities: 1. Berkeley (CEE Department) 2. Stanford (CEE Department) 3. Columbia (CEE Department) 4. Illinois Urbana (CEE Department) 5. Cornell (Engineering Management Dept.) 6. Duke (Engineering Management Dept.) My profile is the following: I finished my BS in Civil Engineering 4 months ago in a Top University in Caracas, Venezuela. I graduated top of a 20 students class and my GPA is 17/20 (about 3.4) I have no background or experience in the US education system. I just studied English for 6 months in LA after I graduated from Highschool. I have been working in a my family Construction Company for about a year. I did my intership there. I did a research thesis in order to obtain my BS, its subjects related to construction planning and control. I have relatively good LOR, specially the professor I did my thesis with, but since they are professors that do not speak English fluently I am a little afraid they might not be perfect. My GRE scores are: 740 - 800 MATH , 630 - 730 VERBAL Ok with this profile, I was wondering If I should be aiming to the top Engineering Universities as I mentioned, or should I lower my expectations? Also If anyone have any experience of International students getting in successfully in those top Programs I appreciate your feedback.... Thanks for your time and help

Im from Venezuela, I am appliying to several Contruction Management Programs or Engineering Management Program. My first options are: Satanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Illinois and Columbia. I have GPA 3.4 in a top University in Venezuela and graduated top of my class in Civil Engineering. I have about 1 year of experience working in a construction company in Venezuela. I just took the GRE and my scores were: 740-800 math / 630-730 verb. I am a little worried about how the GPA and LOR from a University outside of the US are going to be taken seriously from this tops schools and how hard is it to get into those programs with no background in the educational system in the US. I guess thats all about me. What do you think?

So there is an combined scores minimum cutoff? I really dont understand how they can sum both scores from to completely different sections of the test. This combined score seem rather arbitrary. Do you have any idea what is this cutoff scores for the top graduate schools?

Any feedback? Maybe some personal experiences or advice?

Thanks man I hope they are enough, I am planning to apply to some top Civil Engineering Schools and since I have no background education in the US I am afraid that the GPA from and LOR from my University in Venezuela are not going to be taken very serious. Im very happy that I did good in Verbal though because that showed my English is getting better.

FINALLY, I just took the GRE and I got the results I was expecting. I got 740-800 in MATH and 630-730 in VERBAL. I think this scores are probably enough for the Programs that I want to apply: MEM in BERKELY, CORNELL, COLUMBIA, DUKE adn ILLINOIS

Ok, I just took the new GRE with my brother and we did good, close to our expectations, with the only problem that my brother Verbal scores where a bit too low. Verbal is specially hard because our English is not that good, and it is already hard for native English speakers. Since we are planning to apply to Engineering Management Programs, were Math is the main requisite. My question is: How important is the Verbal scores for Top Engineering Programs like BERKELEY, DUKE, COLUMBIA, ILINOIS and CORNELL? Do they take into consideration the fact that international students are expected to do worst in verbal? If he got great math scores, and good TOEFL scores, is it really necessary to retake the test only to get a better VERB scores? [*]Is it true that graduate departments look to GRE scores as a whole sum of both VERB and MATH, being 1400 the scores required for top Universities? or do they consider each score separetly and in context with the program specialty? The basic question is: do VERB scores are really that important to Engineering Programs? should my brother retake the test? My brother socores were: 710-800 MATH, and 300-390 VERB. My scores were: 740-800 MATH, and 630-730 VERB.

I finally took the test, I got the scores I expected in math according to the practices test I showed you. But I scored significantlly better in Verbal, which made think that verbal scores are a little bit more random and can not be as acuaratly predicted with practices test. Actually i got scores all over th eplace in verbal practices. So my final scores where: 630-730 Verb 740-800 Math Thanks all for the help and advice

i can do it if you want.... send it to jorgsuper@gmail.com

Ok I am finally taking the test on Monday, this are the results of all my different practice test in progression: Power Prepp: 550 - 600 verbal - 730 - 800 quantitive - Princeton:Diagnosis test August 16: 152 verbal 152 quantitive - Diagnosis test August 23: 153 verbal - 159 quantitive - Diagnosis test August 23: 152 verbal - 161 quantitive - Diagnosis test August 23: 158 verbal - 165 quantitive - KaplanDiagnosis test September : 680 - 680 verbal - 750 - 800 quantitive - Manhattan Diagnosis test September 2: (free) [*]620 verbal - 89% [*]720 quantitive - 75% [*]Diagnosis test September 5: (2) [*]630 verbal - 90% [*]710 quantitive - 73% [*]Diagnosis test September 19: (3) [*]570 verbal - 79% [*]730 quantitive - 77% [*]Diagnosis test September 22: (6) [*]560 verbal - 77% [*]770 quantitive - 91% Any guesses on my scores for MONDAY? I will take bets....