<p>Hello,
I am a third year student at Central Connecticut State University majoring in mechanical engineering with a aerospace concentration and a minor in mathematics. Although i am only in my third year i am senior standing and will be graduating in 3.5 yrs instead of the usual 4 or 5 yrs, depending on how long it takes you.
I really plan on applying to Cornell, Princeton, Umich, Berkeley, Caltech, maybe even MIT, and a couple of other schools for their Mechanical Engineering PhD programs.</p>
<p>My current GPA is 3.80. I have internship experience at a small fluid controls division. This past semester and still on, i am gaining research experience with a professor of mine on the combustion of unconventional and bio-fuels in hybrid rocket engines. In addition, this year i was awarded a NASA student project grant for this research we are performing. Although, i was only acknowledged in two papers that are going to be presented at the annual AIAA convention this January; I plan on being a coauthor of two papers that are going to be written in may and presented next year.
To include, I was a peer leader for the "First Year Experience" program at my school, am a Alpha Lambda Delta honor society member, Golden Key International Honor Society member, and have very good and close student-professor relationships with my professors, some of whom have attended MIT, NYU poly-technic, buffalo university. Also, I am a first-generation college student.
My interest lies in control and dynamic systems/ systems engineering ( as it is applied to many things and you utilize the system as a whole so electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering is all encompassed by this)
I can not say what my GRE score is as I have not taken it.
But what i would like to know after you took the time to read all of that is, do I have good chances of getting into one of the top schools?</p>