<p>I have one question. I am an undergraduate Student from India presently in my senior year. I applied to stanford for masters in aero in autumn 2014.
I have a first author paper in AIAA Sci-Tech and 6 months research ex at virginia tech.
I have 2 LoRs from Virginia Tech and one from my college.
I got a GRE score of 313 and have GPA of 8.3/10
do I have strong chances at Stanford for Masters</p>
<p>Can anyone please reply and tell me… I am too tensed about it??</p>
<p>There are only high school kids posting here and they have no idea. Almost all of this board is for undergraduate admissions. Chances are a silly game they play. Find the graduate school forum and ask there. But don’t ask chances, there is no way someone can tell for graduate admissions. At best they can say if you sound a reasonable candidate but you should be able to assess that yourself. </p>
<p>You need to list your GRE as two separate components. A combined score is meaningless.</p>
<p>quant 165
Verbal 148</p>
<p>Can anyone please reply and guide me???</p>
<p>Hello aero007,</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the new GRE scoring system, so could you give percentiles? Also could you convert your GPA to the 4.0 scale just because that’s how things are done in the US.</p>
<p>Stanford’s master program is a little more lenient for admission than other schools since the majority of masters students are not funded and no one is guaranteed admission into the PhD program. One becomes a PhD candidate after succeeding on the qualification exam which is quite difficult (I’ve heard the pass rate for taking it the first time is around 50-60%). That being said, it is still difficult to be admitted since they accept less than 20% of applicants!</p>
<p>Having a publication is a huge bonus, though, so well done. What are your research interests? Are you planning just to obtain a masters a Stanford or are you hoping to eventually do a PhD? Did you do research at Virginia Tech as an undergrad?</p>
<p>Hey fiddlerkt,
My GPA is 3.3/4 if i convert it. I look forward to do my PhD in Stanford in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of aircraft and their conceptual designing. I particularly am working on fixed wing design using truss braced wing.
I did my interest in my 6th semester at VT. I am the first author of the paper and I am going to DC to present this paper.
What do you think are my chances of getting admission at Stanford Masters Program?</p>
<p>Hello again, aero007:</p>
<p>I think being a first author on a paper is a huge achievement and will be a major boost to your application. Your GPA is a slight liability being a 3.3 but that won’t kill your chances. Do you have the percentiles for your GRE scores? Who are writing your letters of recommendation?</p>
<p>hi fiddlerkrt
I am having two recommendations from VT (Dr. kapania and Dr. Schetz)
and one from my college in India.
My quant percentile was 93% and Verbal I don’t remember somewhere around 40%, but I have heard that for internationals, quant is more important.</p>
<p>Can anyone please reply to this post???</p>