nuclear_engineer Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 What are my chances for the schools I am applying to as a Nuclear Engineer? (I am very nervous!) Undergrad Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Major(s): Nuclear Engineering GPA in Major: 3.85 Overall GPA: 3.50 Length of Degree: Finished in 4 years (graduated 2008) Position in Class: Near top Type of Student: Domestic / Male / Asian GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 640 W: 4.0 Research Experience: 2 years of undergraduate research in related field resulting in 2 publications as co-author, 1 summer research position with National Science Foundation Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's List, NSF scholar, a handful of industry awards for nuclear engineers, Alpha Nu Sigma member Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 3 years of industry experience (2008 to present) at a national lab Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Completed M.ENG in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State University at the same time I was in industry, performed research for the M.ENG degree at Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute, completed FE exam (planning on taking PE in April, also for nuclear engineering) Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: University of Michigan - Nuclear Engineering - pending Texas A&M - Nuclear Engineering - pending Penn State University - Nuclear Engineering - pending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaileshdc Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Undergrad Institution:College of Engineering Pune (India). Among top 25 schools in India for engineering. Major(s): Electronics and Telecommuncation Minor(s): GPA in Major: Overall GPA: 9.32 out of 10 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: 1st Type of Student: International Male GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 640 W: 4 TOEFL Total: 112 out of 120 Research Experience: Final year research project Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Gold Medal (for first rank in Bachelor course); Best BTech project award; IEEE paper in international conference hence in IEEE xplore; Also reviewed IEEE paper. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Software Engineer at Cisco Systesms Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Applying for [ MS ] at: Stanford University - EE - Pending University of Michigan Ann Arbor - EE: Systems- Pending University of Texas at Austin - ECE- Pending Georgia Institute of Technology - ECE- Pending University of California Los Angeles - EE- Pending University of California San Diego - ECE- Pending University of Maryland at College Park - ECE- Pending Purdue University - ECE- Pending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brassgod Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 (edited) The profile template is below. Check out the and the threads too. Good luck. ================================================================ Undergrad Institution: (School or type of school, such as big state, lib arts, ivy, technical, foreign (what country?)... Overall Reputation in Engineering?) Major(s): Minor(s): GPA in Major: Overall GPA: Length of Degree: (Are you graduating after 3, 4, or 5 years?) Position in Class: (No numbers needed, but are you top? near top? average? struggling?) Type of Student: (Domestic/International, male/female, minority?) GRE Scores: Q: V: W: TOEFL Total: (if applicable, otherwise delete this) Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, organization officer etc...) Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: School - Department - decision/date/funding School - Department - decision/date/funding School - Department - decision/date/funding School - Department - decision/date/funding ================================================================ Edited February 6, 2011 by brassgod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.giugno Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Undergrad Institution: Top 5 University in my country Major(s): Aerospace Engineering GPA in Major: when translated to US GPA I think 3.64/4.00 Length of Degree: 3 years Position in Class: Top 15% Type of Student: European (International) GRE Scores: Q: 800 (94%) V: 490 (60%) W: 3.0 (10%) TOEFL Total: 96/120 Research Experience: 4 months collaboration with Duke Professor Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Scholarship and Assistantship Applying for [ MS ] at: GATech - Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M - Aerospace Engineering Penn State - Aerospace Engineering - ACCEPTED (02/09, no info on funding) U Maryland - Aerospace Engineering UFL - Aerospace Engineering UC Davis - Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering WVU - Aerospace Engineering - ACCEPTED (02/09, no info on funding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akraz Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Undergrad Institution: Top 50 US Universities Major(s): Electrical Engineering - Control Systems GPA in Major: 3.6/4.0 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: N/A Type of Student: US Research Experience: MS (non-thesis) in Electrical Engineering. Work Experience in Aerospace Industry ~6 years. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Deans List etc Applying for [ PhD ] at: Virginia Tech - Aerospace Texas A&M - Aerospace UT Austin - Aerospace Purdue - Aero & Astro UMN - Aerospace ASU - Electrical Engineering UCSB - Electrical Engineering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginerd Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 ================================================================ Undergrad Institution:Unranked, pretty crappy but ABET accredited Major(s):Mechanical Minor(s): GPA in Major: 3.94 Overall GPA:3.97 Length of Degree: 4 Position in Class: #1 Type of Student: white female american GRE Scores: Q:770 V:570 W:4.0 Research Experience: 6mos undergrad research, CFD, no publications Awards/Honors/Recognitions: some scholarships, nothing fancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcat26 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Undergrad Institution: V E S institute of Technology, Mumbai. one of the best & most reputed engineering institutes in Mumbai. National ranking not great though. Major(s): B.E. in electronics Overall GPA: 73%, converts to 3.9/4.0 according to wes.org Length of Degree: 4 Position in Class: Near top Type of Student: International female asian GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 540 W: 3.0 TOEFL Total: 106 Research Experience: final year project in embeded systems, a couple of other projects. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: , topped my Institute in final year, nothing else Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 1 year work experience in automation field. (I guess that won't be counted much) Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I don't know Applying for [ MS ] ] in embedded systems: School - Department - decision/date/funding CMU- ECE- accpted for Spring 2012/ 12th feb/ no funding TAMU- ECE- pending (long shot??) UCLA- EE- Pending Georgia Tech- ECE- pending ASU- CS- pending (expecting a reject) NCSU- ECE- pending UMASS- ECE- pending CU Boulder- ECEE- pending USC- ECE- pending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kklloh Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Foreign (Nanyang Technological University - Singapore), decent engineering program Major(s): Aerospace Engineering Overall GPA: 4.33/5 Length of Degree: 3.5 years for a 4 year program Position in Class: Roughly top 5-10% Type of Student: International GRE Scores: Q: 750 V: 520 W: 5.0 IELTS Overall: 8.0 Research Experience: Research projects every year since first year. 4 papers published, 2 in international conferences (first authorship), and 2 in international not-so-well-known journals (1 first authorship) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: EADS Techmasters scholarship for senior year study, Best Student Paper at one of the conferences, Dean's List for the first year, Uni's Premier Research Scholarship program Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Currently working as an RA for the National University of Singapore (different field though) Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: High School stuff: Malaysian National Physics Competition (Gold, top 10), Malaysian National Chemistry Competition (High Distinction, top 10) Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: University of Minnesota (PhD) - Department AEM - Pending University of Michigan (PhD) - Department Aero/Astro- Pending MIT (MS) - Department Aero-Astro - Pending University of Washington (PhD) - Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics- Pending Caltech (MS) - GALCIT - Pending Edited February 24, 2011 by kklloh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
down under Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Melbourne Uni + ANU (Australian Unis) Major(s): Chemistry Minor(s): - GPA in Major: 3.9 Overall GPA: 3.7 Length of Degree: 4 years undergrad + 2 year research Master Position in Class: near top? Type of Student: International asian male GRE Scores: Q: 790 V: 590 W: 3.5 Research Experience: 2 undergrad research projects totalling around 1.5 years (1 first authored pub) + 1 year Honours (1 first authored pub) + 2 year Master (1 second authored pub) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Various scholarships Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA for 1 sem during Honours Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: All applications were for PhD UIUC - Material Science - rejected (20 Jan 2011) UC Berkeley - Material Science - Accepted (22 Jan 2011) UC Santa Barbara - Material Science - pending Harvard - SEAS (Applied Physics) - pending MIT - Material Science - pending Northwestern - Material Science - pending Minnesota - Material Science - pending UM Amherst - polymer eng. - pending Edited February 24, 2011 by down under 2004011063 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox12 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Undergrad Institution: College in India. Ranked pretty well. Major(s): Electronics and Communication Minor(s): - GPA in Major: 9.27/10 Overall GPA: 9.27/10 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: Top 7% (Really competitive. Ranked 17 in a group of nearly 260) Type of Student: International/Male/Asian GRE Scores: Q: 800 V: 620 W: 4.5 TOEFL Total: 106/120 Research Experience: None Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Won a few events at tech events Pertinent Activities or Jobs: N.A. Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: None Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: Only MS in EE UIUC - Awaited UTA - Awaited U.Mich - Awaited Georgia - Awaited UCLA - Awaited Cornell - Accepted via email - 2 March 2011- Fall 2011 CMU - Accepted via post - 14 Feb 2011 - Fall 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir1362 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Undergrad Inst. : Urmia University Major : Civil Engineering GPA : 16.56 out of 20 Grad Inst. : Amirkabir University of Technology  GPA : 18.16 out of 20 Major : Environmental Engineering  Type of Student : International / Iranian  GRE Score : 1190 V: 410 Q:780 W:3.0  TOEFL iBT : 103  Applying for PhD :  1- UT Austin (Waiting) 2- Clemson (Waiting) 3- University of California Riverside (Waiting) 4- Illinois Institute of Technology (Admitted/ No fund) 5- University of Tennessee Knoxville (Waiting) 6- New Jersey Institute of Tech (Admitted / No fund Yet) 7- University of Arizona (Waiting) 8- Missouri University of Science and Tech (Rejected) 9- Washington University in St. Louis (Rejected) 10- University of Alberta (Waiting)     Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hart27 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Respected state university, but nothing fancy Major(s): Physics GPA in Major: 3.6/4.0 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: N/A Type of Student: US, female GRE: Q: 740 V: 530 W: 4.0 Research Experience: 2 years astrophysics research, 1 year fluids research Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Deans List etc Applying for [ PhD ] at: Rutgers - Mechanical Engineering - Accepted, Fellowship ------> accepting offer Lehigh - Mechanical Engineering - Accepted, Fellowship/TA-ship Drexel - Mechanical Engineering - Contacted by a few professors asking if I want to work with them, but wasn't interested in their research areas - no official offer Carnegie Mellon - Mechanical Engineering - Waitlisted UPenn - Mechanical Engineering - Pending (assumed rejection) UVA - Mechanical Engineering - Pending (assumed rejection) Syracuse - Mechanical Engineering - got email saying if I say I will attend, they will "look on it favorably, and a positive admission decision is likely," -- ummm no. Edited March 29, 2011 by hart27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tew Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: Austrian university, small program, some well-respected faculty Major(s): Biophysics Overall GPA: ~3.7/4.0 (depending on method of calculation/conversion) Length of Degree: 5 years (degree equivalent to B.Sc.+M.Sc.) Position in Class: near top Type of Student: International, male GRE Scores: Q: 780 V: 640 W: 5.0 TOEFL Total: 119 (iBT) Research Experience: 19 months combined research experience at the university, at UC Berkeley / LBNL and at well-known German laboratories; 2 papers in peer-review process, including one as first author. Most of the research in a different subfield though. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: a few, both from the university and other organizations; Fulbright Foreign Student grant for first year of PhD Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: 5 months study abroad in Denmark Applying for [ PhD ] at: UC Berkeley - Biophysics - Rejected Caltech - Bioengineering - Rejected UCLA - Biomedical Engineering - Rejected UMCP - Bioengineering - Accepted with full Fellowship UIC - Bioengineering - Accepted (no financial info, will decline) Edited April 6, 2011 by tew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_keeps_me_awake Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Undergrad Institution: Highly ranked Indian University. Major(s): Civil Engineering Overall GPA: 72.2% Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: 2nd Type of Student: International, male , Asian GRE Scores: Q: 780 V: 620 W: 4.0 TOEFL Total: 106 (iBT) Research Experience: 2 years research. Fully funded by BCUD. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Awards for research project and many others. Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Sports. Toured England. Applying for [ MS ] at: UC Berkeley - Rejected Stanford university - Awaiting Reply Purdue University - Awaiting Reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caudex Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Undergrad Institution: Large technical school well-known for Engineering in Canada Major(s): Nanotechnology Engineering Minor(s): GPA in Major: ~3.8 Overall GPA: ~3.75 Length of Degree: 5 years Position in Class: Top 10/100 Type of Student: Canadian White Male GRE Scores: Q: 790 V: 740 W: 5.5 Research Experience: 8-12 months full and part time research at home university/affiliated institute, 8 months US Department of Energy lab, 8 months large industrial R&D lab in Tokyo, Japan. 2 First author pubs in top journals, 1 in review. Invited conference presentation. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Nothing especially relevant Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Ditto Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Once made a solar cell out of powdered donuts and tea. Applying for PhD at: MIT - Materials - Rejected Caltech - Materials - Accepted with funding Princeton - Chemical Engineering - Accepted with funding UC Berkeley - Materials - Rejected Harvard - Applied Physics - Rejected Northwestern - Materials - Accepted with funding UIUC - Materials - Accepted with funding Cornell - Materials - Rejected Columbia - Applied Physics - Accepted (waitlist for funding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulkit Goyal Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: IIIT Allahabad, India (Among top 10 institutes in teaching in field of IT) Major(s): IT Overall GPA: 9.32/10 Length of Degree: 4 years Position in Class: Top 10 in college (Top in class) Type of Student: Indian Male Blog: http://pulkitgoyal.wordpress.com/ Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...) Research internship at TU Dortmund (as a DAAD Scholar), Research internship at IIIT Hyderabad Publications: Fast and Enhanced Algorithm for Exemplar Based Image Inpainting: Anupam Agrawal, Pulkit Goyal and Sapan Diwakar, In The 4thPacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT2010, Singapore (2010). Devanagari Character Recognition towards Natural Human Computer Interaction: Pulkit Goyal, Sapan Diwakar, Anupam Agrawal, In IndiaHCI conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (2010). Transliteration among Indian Languages using WX Notation: Rohit Gupta, Pulkit Goyal, Sapan Diwakar, In KONVENS 2010, 10.Conference on Natural Language Processing, Saarbrucken, Germany (2010). Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) DAAD WISE Scholar, Awarded scholarship thrice for first rank in class, Sun Campus Ambassador, OSUM Campus Representative, first prize at Young IT Professionals Awards Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, organization officer etc...) Industrial Intern at Elca Informatique SA, Lausanne Switzerland, Job Offer from D.E. Shaw Software Co., Hyderebad (12 lpa) Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Member of ACM and CSI. Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: MS at EPFL - Computer Science - Accepted, no funding PhD at EPFL - Computer Science - Pending What are my chances of getting the PhD? Edited April 15, 2011 by Pulkit Goyal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinrut Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) Undergrad Institution: UCSD Major(s): Mechanical Engineering Overall GPA: 2.79 GPA in Major: 2.991 Length of Degree: 5 years Position in Class: ? probably terrible Type of Student: California resident (US Citizen), Ethnicity: Hapa (1/2 Chinese & 1/2 German) GRE Scores: Q: 780 (89%) V: 660 (91%) W: 5.0 (87%) Experience: 2.5 years working in related field (FEA/CFD) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Nope. Applying for [ MS ] at: USC (Rejected) OSU (Rejected) Texas A&M (Accepted for Fall 2011!) Very late accept (May 2nd), but very glad to get it... late probably due to poor GPA. Most likely would not have gotten in without relevant work experience? Looks like I'll be an Aggie most likely in Fall 2011! Edited May 4, 2011 by pinrut bestbud2011 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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