<p>Major: Chemical Engineering
Cum. GPA: 3.3, Major GPA: 3.1
GRE: 780Q/500V/4.0 W
Research: A semester worth
SOP: Average
Work: 10 months of professional experience (8 mo. as a ChemE)</p>
<p>Looking for my chances at:
UCB
Caltech
UCLA
UCSB
UCR
UC Davis</p>
<p>chemical engineering graduate programs,
thanks!</p>
<p>You will probably not get into UCB, Caltech, UCSB, UCLA. UCD and UCR might accept you.</p>
<p>Nobody knows. You could get accepted at all of them and rejected at all of them.</p>
<p>If there is any validity at all to so-called “chances” for undergraduate admissions (a proposition I strongly doubt), there is absolutely none whatsover for graduate admissions.</p>
<p>Graduate schools are at once much more selective (admit rates on the order of 5-10 percent are not uncommon) and much less quantitative. Grades and test scores might get your app past the first cull, but after that, your research interests, recommendation letters, professional experiences and “fit” with particular professors is far more important.</p>
<p>You could have a 4.0 and a perfect GRE score and get rejected if no professors are interested in your research proposal. Conversely, if a professor likes what he/she sees, they can get you through the committee even with a blemished academic record.</p>
<p>I have a barely-3.0 GPA from an unprestigious small-state flagship public and a 34th percentile math GRE score. I bet if I put my school list and stats up for “chances,” I’d get laughed at. “OMG REJECTED NO CHANCE GO 2 DEVRY LAWL.” Yet I have five admits and zero rejections, including three from Top 35 public research universities.</p>
<p>How? I put together a quality research proposal, contacted professors and convinced them I would be an asset to their program. They, in turn, pulled my apps out of the pile and said “We want this guy.”</p>
<p>So stop asking random people for “chances” and start cold-calling/e-mailing professors whose research direction you’re interested in. :)</p>
<p>Realistically, you have pretty much no chance to get into Caltech, Berkeley, or UCSB. I would add a few more schools at somewhere between the UCLA and UCR/UCD level. </p>
<p>Actually, what I really recommend you do to ask your adviser and ChemE profs at your school for advice. They’ll know better than us.</p>
<p>Sorry I’m late! When I applied to Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UC Davis, I had a 3.33 UC GPA, a 450V, a 720Q, and a 4.0W. I also had no research experience, but I did have military experience. They accepted me, so I know it can be done with grades like yours. You have to have a 3.5 in order to be considered for a Ph.D., but you only need a 3.0 to be considered for a Masters.</p>
<p>That said, I would apply to Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, and San Jose State as well. They’re easier to get into, and they’re cheap(er).</p>