How about my profile?

[cabuka]

hi everyone,

Here is my stats, I will be applying for PH.D in Electrical Engineering

University: Top in engineering in Turkey

GPA: 3.83/4

Rank: top 10% in class

GRE : 480 Verbal, 800 Quant, 3.5 AW

Toefl: 113 / 120

Research : 2 years undergrad. RA at a lab. in my school, about biomedical image proc., 1 conf. paper for March 2010 (mentioned in LoR)

2 strong, 1 average LoR

Applying for PHD to: Georgia Tech, Purdue, USC, JHU, RPI, WUSTL, Duke, Northwestern, UC Boulder, NYU Poly, Yale

waiting for advice.

should I include some safe schools? will my GRE pose a serious problem?

thanks

[s1u8n]

Hmm... a few weeks ago I got admitted into the Civil Engineering Masters program at USC (I applied for PhD) I have slightly lower GPA than yours, and no research experience. Granted EE admission is more selective, but I'm sure you'll be competitive in all the schools you've mentioned.