Chances of getting into a top engineering grad school

I made a thread about this before, but there have been a few changes since then to give a clearer picture.

I am graduating in a week with a BS in Civil Engineering and I have taken courses to focus on Structural Engineering. I have realized I am really interested in the computational analysis/mechanics side of structures and I luckily have taken coursework to back that up, including a graduate level course where computational analysis was basically the entire class.

I have a 3.83 major GPA and a 3.72 cumulative GPA, on the GRE I got a 165 quantitative and a 157 Verbal, I have participated in research for a year, participated in clubs on campus, even being President of one of them, studied abroad, interned and been a TA for a structures course.

I was able to get letters of recommendation from the professor I do research with who is a PhD in Structures, the department head and college adviser of Civil and Environmental Engineering at my school who graduated from Berkeley, and the Senior Structural Engineer at the company I interned with over the summer.

I am applying to pretty top notch graduate schools for an MS with the intent of doing research with a professor that focuses on computational analysis/mechanics. My list includes UC Berkeley, UCLA, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and U Illinois Urbana Champaign. There are a few others as well, but these are the top ones. At the moment, I think my top choices are Princeton or Columbia because their faculty research seems to align the most with my interests.

I just want to know what my chances are for these schools, given my credentials. I feel like maybe I haven’t done enough. I know someone who is going to Princeton for her PhD and she assured me its not as difficult to get in as it seems, but I am still worried because I have also been receiving job offers. I am worried about rejecting all of my job offers in case I get into one of my dream schools, but then not actually getting in or not getting funded.

You’ll be fine. There’s no way to really “chance” you, but your stats should be competitive.

@elee333 - I agree, you have a strong application. Whether you get any financial aid is another question and depends on the program. Since you intend to do research, it may be possible to get some faculty support when you get to that point.

Decent chance!

Okay, thank you guys! I know it’s difficult to say exactly, I was just hoping someone might have gone to/gotten into one of these schools or knows someone who did and would have a little insight. I think my issue is self-doubt because they are such good schools, so in my mind I’m way in over my head.