<p>Trying to get a graduate degree in Civil Engineering</p>
<p>Undergad. school: Uconn- Civil Engineering
GPA: 3.76</p>
<p>GRE: 790 Q 630 R 5 W</p>
<p>Teachers recs. are really good because I worked in 2 of their labs. other is calculus- differential equations teacher which I aced the course.</p>
<p>Research:
-did research in 2 labs @Uconn
-Summer internship at a Civil Engineering Firm.
-wrote a published article</p>
<p>Should I retake the GRE to get it over 1450 or does it not really matter I know I could probably get a: 800 Q, 660 R and a 5W but does it matter for these schools:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell University (top choice)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Columbia University (Fu)</li>
<li>Dartmouth University</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Tufts University
7.University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
</ol>
<p>Please tell me where my weaknesses are as far as my Stats are concerned....</p>
<p>Your stats are pretty similar to mine. Everything anyone’s ever told me say the chances are good with those numbers. It might be tough to get an assistantship though. In my neck of the woods, UTexas’s average GPA for students who got assistantships was like a 3.9 </p>
<p>Just out of curiousity, why do you wanna go to choices 3-8? I’ve never really heard of those schools being any good for civil.</p>
<p>There is no reason for you to retake the GRE. As long as you get close to 800 Q and 500 V or better, you should be fine… i.e. you are fine.</p>
<p>To me, it almost looks like you could write your own ticket to just about anywhere.</p>
<p>I agree with everythingstaken that it does seem odd that you have a bunch of “ivies” on there that aren’t traditionally amazing engineering schools, especially because grad school is much more dependent on school reputation than undergrad. I suppose their names might help make up for that some though.</p>
<p>Also, as for assistantships, don’t worry about that, you will get one. Just go and get it from a prof before school starts rather than waiting for the department to hand you one. I finished undergrad with about a 3.4 and got a research assistantship because I talked to the prof and impressed him with my other stuff other than GPA.</p>
<p>I could of sworn you already asked this exact same question 2 or 3 times. </p>
<p>As others have said here and in your previous posts, your stats are competitive and you have a good shot at any of those schools. </p>
<p>Don’t retake the GRE, you really need a 780Q + as an engineer and usually your verbal score is irrelevant as long as its 500+. </p>
<p>Also, if you are looking at top Civil programs (which you qualify for) why not add Texas, Stanford, Berkley, Michigan, Purdue, UIUC or GATech?</p>
<p>actually yea my bad, this was from one of my old threads, I actually am looking at these schools more than the others…These schools are in order of my top choices
- Cornell University (NY)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL)
- Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD)
- Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY)
- Duke University (NC)
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Lehigh University ¶
- Rice University (Brown) (TX)
- Tufts University (MA)</p>
<p>and Maybee MIT but idk if im really qualified to go there</p>
<p>I’m just curious, is there a particular reason why you want to stay in the east coast area?</p>
<p>While the schools you mentioned all have strong programs, you are missing a number of other much stronger civilE graduate programs.</p>
<p>Anyway unless you sexually harass the admissions officers, I think you should get into all of your schools.</p>
<p>yea, I live on the easy coast now, so maybee I’ll apply to Stanford and Berkley… but besides those schools, I wouldn’t really go to any west coast…</p>
<p>I absolutely LOVE Cornell so either way, that is my first choice, even over Berkley and Stanford</p>
<p>Nothing to consider in the midwest or the south?</p>
<p>Hello,
I am planing to apply for a Master degree in civil engineering (Structural Engineering) in Fall 2012. I will be greatly appreciated if anyone say something about my chances for admission for the following universities.</p>
<p>I’m considering: Berkeley, Stanford, UT Austin.</p>
<p>My background information:
I am an international student and English is not my native language.
B.S. in Civil Engineering, GPA 3.97 in SUNY-Buffalo;
GRE: Q:780; V:310; AWA:4
2 Summer internships
1 Summer Research Experience
2 Internship Report published
2 Research Report published
2 Scholarships during undergraduate education</p>
<p>Thanks for all,</p>