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Mechanical Engineering Fall 2017 PhD Applicants


ilikecoffetoo

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Hi everybody, it's that time! Post your stats and the schools you are applying to. Below is the template I stole from previous years. 

Undergraduate University 

Graduate University

Undergraduate GPA  

Graduate GPA 

GRE Scores 

TOEFL Score 

Publications 

Work Experience: 

Research Experience:

Teaching Experience: 

Awards: 

 

Schools applied to:

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Sorry to to double post, here are my stats. Also, I know how to spell coffee, that's just how I spell my middle name. Anyway:

Undergraduate University I don't want to say exactly, but it's top one in engineering 

Graduate University

Undergraduate GPA  5.0/5

Graduate GPA 

GRE Scores - Q 170 (100 percentile), V 170 (100 percentile)

TOEFL Score - 

Publications - 7 journal publications 

Work Experience: 1 summer at Facebook, 1 summer at SpaceX, started my own foodtruck (you may have heard of it)

Research Experience: 3 semesters in a robotics lab, 2 semesters in an applied mathematics lab, 2 semesters in an artificial intelligence lab

Teaching Experience: 

Awards: 

Applying to: Caltech, MIT, Stanford, ETH Zurich, Ecole Polytechnique, Berkeley (safety)

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20 hours ago, ilikecoffetoo said:
Hi everybody, it's that time! Post your stats and the schools you are applying to. Below is the template I stole from previous years. 

Undergraduate University JNTU, Hyderabad, INDIA

Graduate University University of Wisconsin-Madison

Undergraduate GPA  61% or First Class

Graduate GPA 3.0

GRE Scores Verbal 151 Quant: 150

TOEFL Score 

Publications 

Work Experience: 2 years of product engineering experience

Research Experience: RCCI engine modeling and air quality modeling

Teaching Experience: 1.5 years of teaching experience

Awards: 

 

Schools applied to: Colorado University-Boulder

 

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Hey! Got my first acceptance today, so thought I'd join and get this thread going!

 

Undergraduate University Big 10 school - materials science

Undergraduate GPA  3.9

GRE Scores 167V, 163Q, 4.0W 

Publications One, second author

Work Experience: 2 years in semiconductor manufacturing

Research Experience: 

One REU, One SURF, plus 1.5 academic years

Teaching Experience: 

none

Awards: 

Intel/SRC fellowship;  award for top GPA in class

Schools applied to:

Northwestern

UCSB

CU Boulder (Accepted)

Carnegie Mellon

UT Austin

 

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