<p>I am very close to finishing my master's in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University. My GPA is 3.8. I was just wondering my chances for getting into top notch universities for PhD. I certainly want to get into one of the top 10-15 univs. Almost three years back I scored 1350 (Quantitative = 750, Verbal = 600 and Analytica = 4). I am taking GRE again to (hopefully)
improve my score.</p>
<p>Please write back with your thoughts on my chances. It would be a great help.</p>
<p>Well, your gpa is in the right neighborhood for top-15 schools, but your GRE’s are a little low in the Q - the average for those schools is in the 790-800 range. Don’t sweat the other sections - if you can bring them up, great, but your scores won’t really hurt you there.</p>
<p>The bigger questions are in research interest and experience, publications, etc. Have you started thinking about your letters of recommendation? And what are you going to do if you do not get into a top-15 school? Take a spot in a lower school (assuming you apply to some), go into industry?</p>