<p>Hi, all! I am new here. And This-Forum-Is-Awsome!!!
I just want to ask questions about applying grad school.
I am an international student, and have been in America for two years. I'm going to apply the 2011 fall's MS. </p>
<p>Undergrad: Ohio University (Famous Party School)
Major: EE
GPA: 3.88
Major(2): Applied Math
GPA:4.0
GRE's: I am taking in July. Probably, the score will be Math: 800, Verbal: 550 AW: 4.5</p>
<p>Research:
- Lab expreience: Worked in OU control lab with grad students and a prof for one quarter. </p>
<ul>
<li>internships: I am doing a co-op at a international company as a control engineer this
quarter.
Honors: Tau Beta Pi</li>
</ul>
<p>Sosocal: International Students Union's member, Chinese Student & Scholar Association's
president, OU Math Club member.</p>
<p>Just worried about that my school is not good, and I don't have strong research expreiences. But I really want to apply top 10 EE schools. (stanford is the one I want most.) Do you guys think will I have a chance? Or what should be my realistic targets?
Tks!!!</p>
<p>Thanks, pocket. But I just looked up the tuition of each school in top 10. At least I need 45K per year, then I’m probably not able to get that much money. If I do need a finance aid and I want to stay in west coast, is there any good suggestions? Thanks again.</p>
<p>OU is fine, don’t need to worry about that at all.</p>
<p>Your GPA is solid, but really lack of research experience, work on that part.
(unfortunately working experience doesn’t help grad school admission very much)
IMO if you have a choice, rather work in a lab for the summer versus going into industry, working full time in lab is different than working 20hrs/week in lab, you maybe able to deliver some real lab work if you spend 3 months in a lab full time, and get some <em>great</em> rec letters from the PI</p>