What factors matter most for engineering grad school?

Graduate School
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Below are several factors. How much (in percentage) do each of them weigh in your engineering grad school application?

  1. GPA
  2. Vocational Extracurriculars--i.e. participation in the IEEE student chapter
  3. Non-vocational extracurriculars (i.e. joining the wrestling team, the Chinese club, or Greeks)
  4. Internships/work experience
  5. GRE Scores
  6. Undergraduate Research Experience
  7. Having passed the FE exam (Does it give you a boost?)
  8. Other factors that would help? (Please specify)

I merged two very similar threads together. - juillet.

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EC’s are of NO importance for grad school applications.
what they care about are your GPA, especially in your UG major, your GRE test scores, LOR’s from professor, internship jobs/ and or research during the school year or summers in EE.

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see my response to your other posted question.
the factors are listed in order of most to least important- [for those applying to MS programs only]

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I am about to complete my lower-division work at community college and transfer to UC Davis for Electrical Engineering. I want to put together a stellar portfolio for electrical engineering graduate school–I’m thinking Texas A&M.

So, what do Engineering Grad School admissions look for? Of course, for Undergrad, they look for extracurriculars–sports, clubs, volunteer activity, and orchestra. Is this a factor for Grad School?

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bump