Realistic or Optimistic?

Graduate School
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I'll apply for fall 2011 in Aerospace Engineering (Master):</p>

<p>Nationality: Italian
Age: 21
GPA: 3.25
GRE: 450+770
TOEFL: 91
Research Experience: 4 months thesis with a well known american professor, paper to be finished and submitted
Undergrad scholarship and assistantship at my current university in Italy</p>

<p>I want to apply to those places:</p>

<p>USC
Purdue
Texas A&M
UW - Seattle
Penn State
UC Davis
UMN-TC</p>

<p>Are they reachable, possible? I think to erase 2 of these.. Which ones?</p>

<p>And a match/safety one.. UHouston? Suny Buffalo, Mississippi State?</p>

<p>Possibility to get funds anywhere? Or Simply admission?</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>Bump!</p>

<p>Please help :)</p>

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<p>Have you looked at Embry-Riddle?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I visited also, but since my final goal is a PhD I think a school offering such a degree would be better (possibility of research).</p>

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<p>embry riddle offers a PhD in engineering physics. the website boasts of plenty of research areas:
[Doctor</a> of Philosophy in Engineering Physics, Daytona Beach Campus, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University](<a href=“http://www.erau.edu/db/degrees/phd-engineeringphysics.html]Doctor”>http://www.erau.edu/db/degrees/phd-engineeringphysics.html)</p>