PhD degree in engineering

Graduate School
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<p>how is a 161 verbal / 161 quant for Electrical Engineering?</p>

<p>honestly, the math is a joke, so i’m not sure why i scored so low, but I can’t imagine missing more than 2 or 3 questions (on par with what I’ve been missing on the practice tests I took this weekend).</p>

<p>do you think it is worth re-taking? my GPA is very low (3.23-3.25), but i have a bunch of experience I think. volunteer research back in high school for 2 years, trained on a few microscopes, worked as IT guy for a summer, worked at Broadcom for a year testing boards and writing scripts, working on two research projects with different professors-- might get a paper out of each of them.</p>

<p>i’m not sure what to think. i want to get into a cool grad school / lab, i don’t really care too much about where as long as i get to do something captivating. i took a hard course load, taking extra classes for experience even though i don’t necessarily get A’s in everything.</p>

<p>any advice, friends?</p>

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<p>Well I am no expert as I am just applying myself this year, but if it was me, I would retake them and try to get into the 90s in percentile to kind of balance the GPA.
I am hearing that GPA , recommendations and fit are the most important factors anyway, so not sure it would change the outcome, but my inclination would be to retake.</p>

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<p>DoubleD, I am yes, and I agree completely with what you said regarding ‘publications.’</p>

<p>comsicfish, yes I’m glad you mentioned how a person ‘fits’ with the program to which he/she is applying. One has to be careful that the program will be able to cater to the interests of the prospective student and vice versa.</p>