<p>Hi</p>
<p>First time posting here... i guess i was a bit nervous about applying for a phd program with the stats i have.. so im asking your thoughts..</p>
<p>I did my undergrad and grad at top 7 u.s. engineering school in mech e, with 3.2 and 3.01. As for undetgrad, if you only count the enginerring courses, it goes up to 3.78. And as for grad gpa... I got 0 in a essential course due to some family issues that prevented me from doing well in it. So without that one class, its 3.34.</p>
<p>After graduation, I have been working at Samsung for three years doing extensive research work using commercial cfd software to develope fans, wrote one patent, but no publication yet. </p>
<p>I havent taken the GRE yet but planning on it. My practices put me somewhere around 159 v 167q. My previous GRE writing was 4.0(the score i used to apply for my masters)</p>
<p>I know its not much info but what worries me is my GPA... Some part of me says a good recs and also my experience at Samsung will offset the bad gpa.. but then again, schools may just throw out my app due to the low gpa... </p>
<p>Any thoughts on my chances for grad schools?</p>