<p>So I'm looking for good grad schools matches for me. I'm attendeding a no-name (it is ABET accredited) school for undergrad. The following is a little bit more information about me.</p>
<p>Major: EE
Area of interest: Electronics
GPA: 3.7
Research Experience: 4 Semester (in Physics, no publications)
Work Experience: 1 Summer Internship
GRE: 780Q/600V/5.5</p>
<p>What schools do you guys recommend?</p>
<p>I'd appreciate any input. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>Anybody?</p>
<p>I think your GRE score is adequate for a top 50 EE program. Anecdotally, I’ve heard that most top ranked engineering programs only really care about your quantitative GRE score and ignore your writing and verbal scores as long as they aren’t too low. It’s harder to draw any conclusion from your GPA since the average GPA and distribution of grades can vary greatly from school to school.</p>
<p>The key to getting into a top ranked program is: (A) having a good idea of what you want to study, and (B) articulating how the school you are applying to can help you achieve (A). If you’re asking the forum for grad school recommendations based on just your GPA and GRE scores, it’s clear that you don’t know what you want to study or which schools you want to go to. I don’t think that makes you a very strong grad school candidate, especially if you truly come from a “no-name” college.</p>
<p>You should do some research into the schools that you’re interested in and what kinds of research projects are going on there, and you should do some soul searching to figure out what you want to study.</p>
<p>To clarify what Mokonon said, most engineering grad schools only care that you did great on math, decent on writing, and didn’t completely bomb verbal. Your scores will not really keep you out of anywhere.</p>
<p>At any rate, from what you’ve said, there is no way anyone can suggest programs to you. Graduate school is not like undergrad where you pick a list of schools from a ranking list and get their relative position in the pecking order. You need to know roughly what you want to study within your major. For some of those areas, small schools may be the best and for others the juggernauts like MIT may reign supreme. It all just depends on what you want to study.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m not really sure what area in electronics I want to study. That’s because I haven’t really had that much experience working in the field. I just enjoyed what we did in class and I am pretty sure if its something challenging, I will like it (I am not very discerning). I just wanted to know what kind of schools are out of my reach so I wouldn’t bother applying to them.</p>
<p>My plan was to figure out what kind of schools are in my reach and then look into what kind of research they’re doing that would interest me. And then go from there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input guys.</p>