<p>I'm applying for several schools for Masters/PhD for the spring 2010 (Virginia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Penn U, U of Illinois-Urbana, U of Wisconsin-Mad, Ohio State (fallback)). </p>
<p>I have a 3.8 GPA, BS in Electrical Engineering (U of Missouri) graduating this December. International Student. I'm taking my GRE for the second time this July (first GRE: V 470, Q 710, 4.5 writting). </p>
<p>I have almost 1 year of research experience and one publication coming out this August, hopefully. </p>
<p>Can you guys give me any opinions/chances/whatever you think?
thanks! :)</p>
<p>I don’t know of any graduate program that does not require some form of standardized testing. Maybe you read that the GRE subject test was optional? That’s different from the General GRE.</p>
<p>GRE not required for OSU and UW-M if not applying for funding (which i’m not). I plan to do MS and then PhD (if they let me jump to PhD, that would be great too).</p>
<p>Marijaca, no one can give your chances for getting into a PhD program without knowing what your LORs and transcript looks like and how your interests line up with those of the faculty. You’ll have to wait for someone who knows something about EE MS/PhD programs to get even an inkling.</p>
<p>Your GPA is excellent, particularly for engineering, and your research experience sounds good. You might want to retake the GREs to get a higher quantitative, since engineering programs expect a much higher Q given the math-heavy discipline. (It would help you, too, if you could get the AW to a 5.) Still, you’ve topped 700 in the quantitative, which is important.</p>
<p>When you say “Penn U,” do you mean University of Pennsylvania or Penn State?</p>