<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I'm an undergraduate in my last year (I finish in March 2011) of an Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree at Wright State University in Fairborn, OH.</p>
<p>I want to go to grad school and I have recently become very interested in the program at Ohio State - mainly because of their power engineering courses.</p>
<p>Only thing is, I'm not sure if I can get in. My gpa at Wright State is pretty decent at 3.4 and should increase after this quarter. The only downside is I spent 3 years at Miami University Middletown where I had a 2.7 gpa - mainly because I slacked and had no idea I'd ever want to go to a place like OSU. It really doesn't reflect my true academic ability, but I can't undo it.</p>
<p>I know OSU's graduate engineering school wants a 3.2 gpa for ALL undergrad work which, due to the sheer number of hours I had at MUM will be very hard for me to reach - even though my gpa at Wright State is pretty decent, and I've done VERY well in all my EE courses.</p>
<p>Do I still stand a chance of getting into OSU for graduate work?</p>
<p>I’m just say this straight… 3.4 is not very good. 3.2 is like the minimum to get into a decent graduate program. And OSU has a solid engineering department, with 3.4 GPA esp. with some C-level grades you are at disadvantage.</p>
<p>Talk to your advisor/professor to seek for opinions. I did my undergrad/master at OSU so I’ve applied to their graduate school therefore I know this. How is your research experience and what are you rec letters look like?</p>
<p>Haven’t done much research yet but that will change.</p>
<p>I just took a student research position that will start this summer and last until I graduate. That should lead into some very good experience as well as hopefully 1-2 strong letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>I’ll also have my Senior Project Research experience under my belt by then as well. On top of that, I spent 2 years interning at a local manufacturing plant.</p>
<p>I know 3.4 isn’t the greatest but I have been told on other sites that the 3.2 standard is mainly just a guideline to keep very under-prepared students from applying. I’m hoping that since I’m planning to do Power Systems (if I get accepted) that they would look at classes more closely related to that when determining my candidacy. The only grade of C I’ve received at Wright State as in Linear System I, which is used much more by Signal Processing types if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>Even better, most of my B-level work has been in non-EE classes such as Statics, Dynamics, C Programming, etc. </p>
<p>As far as Circuits I/II, Electronics, Electromagnetics, Controls, etc. I’ve aced all of those. I also got an A in Linear Systems II despite getting the C in Linear I.</p>
<p>I’m planning to take the GRE sometime this summer or at the latest in the fall so I’m hoping if I can do exceptionally well that they would at least consider me.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>