Mechanical Engineering Fall 2017 PhD Applicants

[ilikecoffetoo]

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:

[ilikecoffetoo]

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)

[DiscoTech]

Well, your UGPA gives away the UG school, but I think you knew it would.

[Bhargav Bandari]

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

 

[KL3849]

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

 

Edited January 11, 2017 by izzy908

[koab79]

On 1/2/2017 at 4:07 PM, DiscoTech said:

Well, your UGPA gives away the UG school, but I think you knew it would.

I LOL'd hard at this, some of the people on this board.... smh

[Neurotic_Jay]

Well not that many people applied to MechE program this year

[pvfm]

Anyone still waiting to hear from MIT?

 

[Neurotic_Jay]

14 hours ago, pvfm said:

Anyone still waiting to hear from MIT?

 

I heard their visit day is in March from another student interviewed at Caltech. I didn't apply to MIT though.