<p>3.43 cumulative gpa (UC school)
3.56 gpa not couting first 2 years
3.66 major gpa
780 math, 560 verbal, 4 writing GRE
4 years research experience with 2 different professors
2 internships
officer of a club</p>
<p>applying to UCI, UCSD, Stanford, Cal, USC, UCLA, Penn, Columbia, Northwestern PhD directly from undergrad. Do schools care that my GPA has improved?</p>
<p>Publications? They would be really useful.
Your cumulative GPA is good not stellar (for a direct track BS-PhD I suppose) to get easily into some of these programs (some of them require a min of 3.5 if I’m not wrong).
Your GRE is good, maybe you could score a little beat better in the verbal section since you studied in the states for ugrad. Your Q score is good.
I think that your SOP and LORs are the things that can boost your application.</p>
<p>My two cents.</p>
<p>thanks. I have a school publication with my name on it, but it was more of a group thing and I didn’t do too much so I didn’t bother mentioning it. I know my GPA isn’t really that good so PhD may be hard to get into. Do you know if these programs will consider you for a MS if you are not accepted into the PhD program? I know that Columbia does, but not sure of the others. </p>
<p>I have had one of the Deans go over my SoP and she thought it was great so I trust her judgment. I expect to have 2 good/very good LOR and 1 okay one.</p>
<p>Hi guys, im new to the forum. im mainly interested in pursuing Chemical Engineering phd in MIT CEP program,
BS/MS Chemical Engineering, total 4yrs, at NYU ( engineering school, poly) GPA 3.9 (will graduate spring 12)
study abroad India for a semester,
research experience with organic photovoltaics (~1.5yr), won time warner cable innovation competition, finalist at NYU Stern business plan. got provisional patent with idea, and paper almost ready. should have at least 2 papers by fall 11.
teaching experience as a TA for 1.5yr so far,
research engineer intern at TU Darmstadt (Germany, topic:polymer derived ceramics), scholarship from DAAD; and Weizmann Institute (Israel, topic: developed setup for liquid phase sensing in GaAs sensor), very prestigious places.
this summer will intern at robert bosch, stutgart, germany,
would you say i have a shot at CEP MIT ChE? should i apply for other places? i thought of studying phd in germany as well in order to learn language. haven’t taken the GRE</p>