Obviously I'm primarily asking the engineers on this board, but if you have a sibling or a parent who is in the field and wants to give me some input, I'd appreciate that as well.
Here is the situation:
I would love to go to MIT/Stanford/UC Berkeley, but I'm already in $120,000 dept, and those schools are so competitive, it is unlikely I'd get full support from them.
So the first important criterion is being able to get full support.
Secondly, the school should preferably have a somewhat prestigious name, because I want to be able to get a job when I graduate.
Thirdly, I would prefer to get my degree in Automotive Engineering, because that's the one and only field that interests me and has been interested me my whole life.
I'll get my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering in May 2011 from Fresno State.
I have a 3.68 GPA on a 4.0 scale at the moment.
6 times on Dean's List.
My quantitative GRE score is 750.
I've been on the SAE Baja team for the past 2 years.
I'm the treasurer of ASME's local student chapter
I'm the treasurer of Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.
I'm the vice president, and will be the president next semester, of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
I'm the scholarship chairman of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
Here is a list of schools I've been thinking about applying to and the reasons for applying:
Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Top 10 school, Automotive Engineering
Michigan State University - Automotive Engineering
Colorado State University - Automotive Engineering
Clemson University - Automotive Engineering ($10 mil BMW contribution in 2002)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Top 10 school, good ME program
UC Davis - good ME program
UC San Diego - Top 20 school, good ME program
Do you guys have any input?
Other schools I should consider and haven't thought of?
Schools I mentioned but should rather forget?
I know it's r3v I'm asking to help me out, but I've been searching around the internet, I've been talking to professors at my school, but I'd like to get some input from actual professional engineers, preferably in the automotive industry.
Here is the situation:
I would love to go to MIT/Stanford/UC Berkeley, but I'm already in $120,000 dept, and those schools are so competitive, it is unlikely I'd get full support from them.
So the first important criterion is being able to get full support.
Secondly, the school should preferably have a somewhat prestigious name, because I want to be able to get a job when I graduate.
Thirdly, I would prefer to get my degree in Automotive Engineering, because that's the one and only field that interests me and has been interested me my whole life.
I'll get my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering in May 2011 from Fresno State.
I have a 3.68 GPA on a 4.0 scale at the moment.
6 times on Dean's List.
My quantitative GRE score is 750.
I've been on the SAE Baja team for the past 2 years.
I'm the treasurer of ASME's local student chapter
I'm the treasurer of Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.
I'm the vice president, and will be the president next semester, of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
I'm the scholarship chairman of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
Here is a list of schools I've been thinking about applying to and the reasons for applying:
Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Top 10 school, Automotive Engineering
Michigan State University - Automotive Engineering
Colorado State University - Automotive Engineering
Clemson University - Automotive Engineering ($10 mil BMW contribution in 2002)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Top 10 school, good ME program
UC Davis - good ME program
UC San Diego - Top 20 school, good ME program
Do you guys have any input?
Other schools I should consider and haven't thought of?
Schools I mentioned but should rather forget?
I know it's r3v I'm asking to help me out, but I've been searching around the internet, I've been talking to professors at my school, but I'd like to get some input from actual professional engineers, preferably in the automotive industry.
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