<p>I am currently an Undergrad at UCLA School of Engineering and will be graduating with a CS&E bachelors and Accounting Minor. I currently have a 3.5 (exactly) and plan to apply to graduate school. </p>
<p>I wanted to know my chances of applying to schools such as Stanford, and other top engineering schools, and what schools I should be applying to.</p>
<p>I want to join a program that has some business aspect to it (the Stanford Managerial Science and Engineering program is ideal for me) and some engineering aspect. </p>
<p>As I stated, I currently have a 3.5, one good letter of rec (from research) from a MIT/Stanford graduate professor, an on campus job, and I will have an internship with a fortune 500 company this summer. For the other two letters of rec, I would find another professor and look for someone in the internship i have this summer.</p>
<p>Any recommendations? thank you.</p>
<p>Your chances of acceptance are almost a crap shoot at any school you apply to. Your best bet is to apply to schools whose professors conduct research in areas of engineering that you’re interested in. If any of these schools are within driving distance, go visit the schools and talk with the professors directly.</p>
<p>Some schools I know which have both good engineering departments as well as business departments include:</p>
<p>Stanford
Berkeley
UCLA
USC
UC Irvine
Cal Poly
CSU Long Beach</p>
<p>thanks a lot for your input, i plan on applying to many of those schools you listed.</p>
<p>are you currently a graduate student?</p>
<p>Not yet. I’m graduating in June, and I will be starting grad school in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University in the Fall.</p>
<p>you’re a bit on the lower side for stanford MS&E. See here: [Department</a> of Management Science and Engineering - Admissions](<a href=“Management Science and Engineering”>Management Science and Engineering)</p>
<p>For the master’s program here, it’s not really about research, as many think of the MS&E degree as a mini MBA of sorts. Rsearch only matters if you are going for the Ph.D. (MS&E Ph.D.s typically take a lot of quant and probabilistic courses). Try to improve your grades, and get good Letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>thank you for your input. I am looking to improve my grades, but being 2 quarters away from graduating, there is not much I can do to improve my grades. Sitting on a 3.50, if I get straight A’s, I can probably move that up to a high 3.5, or barely hit a 3.6 :(. But I will definitely try.</p>
<p>Any recommendations on letters of rec i should get? I currently have one solid letter of rec, and another maybe from my manager at my future internship over the summer. For the last one, should I get a professor (a lecturer specifically) that I took? He worked for many high tech companies and is currently a CEO of a smaller consulting company–or should I ask a lecturer who was the previous CTO of a very large and well known company, but did not really do much in his class besides a group presentation on a case study (it wasn’t that big). I probably know the CEO a little better, but both lecturers I havent done any outside class with.</p>