<p>Hello, I am currently a Junior at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, studying undergraduate Aerospace Engineering. I would like to know if I have any chance into some of the top 10 Aerospace graduate program (looking to do a Ph.D) </p>
<p>GPA (predicted): 3.78 overall
GRE: 170 Q 160 V
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Minor: Physics
Research Experience: 2 Summer Internships, 2 years of research with faculty
co-author on two publications (decent journals), working on more.
Intern at Boeing
Awards: Deans list, a few departmental scholarships
Letter of recommendation: Quite good I believe.</p>
<p>I am mainly looking for Princeton, Maryland, G Tech, and Michigan. As I am coming from a undergraduate school that isn't that well known, I am very much worried if my already low gpa is considered extremely low. Please any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Hello:</p>
<p>I think you stand a very good chance at the schools you mentioned and I would not say a 3.78 is low! Looks like you are definitely doing the right things in terms of research as it’s a huge boon to have publications as an undergraduate student. Do you have a certain area of aerospace you are interested in?</p>
<p>ya I am mainly looking to do propulsion/combustion related studies, you word come to me with great relief! are there any other programs that you know that excel at propulsion related fields? Thanks for time!</p>
<p>Your GRE and GPA are quite good and you should be able to get into some of the schools you list. Remember that these programs have a lot of applications and so you might not even make the first cut with some of them. Make sure you have a clear safety school as a fallback. Ask your professor/mentors for what schools might be good in the area you are interested in but aren’t the obvious top 10 types.</p>