Can a decent GRE score compensate for a bad Undergraduate GP

[Nadia666]

Originally posted by rickychan

Dear Nadia,

My overall GPA is 2.71
Actually, I applied for many "decent" university, may be, I list them out:

Penn State,
UC Irvine,
U of Missouri, Columbia
U of Missouri, Rolla
U of Chicago, Illinois
U of Florida
U of Delaware,
Clarkson University
Iowa State

I got all refused for admission, except you of Missouri -Rolla ask me to sent a better GRE score for consideration.
I think those universities are very popular.
Let me ask you some questions, why are you want to apply for Industrial Engineering instead? Is it easier to get admitted because the subject is not popular? Which schools you intend to apply?

Anyway, just wish you the best.

Dear Ricky,

You definitely applied to some VERY SELECTIVE universities. Do you not have the list of universities RANKED? No wonder you got rejected. You need to apply to less selective ones. What was your OLD GRE score? I'm applying for Industrial Engineering because it is a good major w/ a lot of job opportunities, and because I'm not very interested in EE and it's very hard and not my forte. Was this your second time giving the GRE? I might apply to MO Rolla too.

thanks.

Nadia

[Nadia666]

Ricky,

Here's a list of Uni rankings for EE, it should give you an idea. What GRE score did you send to you of Mo at Rolla? How much was that score?

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RANKINGS :

1. Massachusetts Inst of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. you of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. University of California-Berkeley
5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
6. California Institute Technology
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. Purdue University
9. University of Texas at Austin
10. Carnegie Mellon University
11. Univ of California-Los Angeles
12. University of Maryland College Park
13. Cornell University
14. Princeton University
15. Columbia University
16. University of Wisconsin-Madison
17. University of Southern California
18. University of Minnesota
19. Univ of California-Santa Barbara
20. Univ of California-San Diego
21. Texas A&M University
22. Ohio State University
23. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
24. Polytechnic University
25. University of Washington
26. Rice University
27. Virginia Polytech Inst & State University
28. Pennsylvania State University
29. you of Massachusetts at Amherst
30. Yale University
31 University of Florida
32. North Carolina State University
33. University of California-Davis
34. Johns Hopkins University
35. Brown University
36. Arizona State University
37. Washington University
38 University of Colorado
39 Case western University
40. University of Arizona
41. University of Pennsylvania
42. State you of New York-Stony Brook
43 Utah State University
44. Rutgers State Univ-New Brunswick
45. University of Notre Dame
46. University of Rochester
47. University of California-Irvine
48. Drexel University
49. Syracuse University
50. Michigan State University
51. CUNY - Graduate School & Univ Center
52. Iowa State University
53. University Of Iowa
54. State Univ of New York-Buffalo
55. University of Virginia
56. Northeastern University
57. University of Rhode Island
58. Case Western Reserve Univ
59. Auburn University
60. University of Illinois at Chicago
61. Colorado State University
62. Oregon State University
63. Texas at Arlington
64. Pittsburgh
65. Duke University
66. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
67. Lehigh University
68. Naval Postgraduate School
69. Texas Tech University
70. George Washington University
71. Vanderbilt University
72. University of Kansas
73. Clemson University
74. Clarkson University
75. New Mexico State University
76. Southern Methodist University
77. University of Central Florida
78. University of Delaware
79. University of Connecticut
80. Washington State University
81. University of Missouri-Rolla
82. Boston University
83. Missouri-Columbia
84. Illinois Institute of Technology
85. Ohio University
86. Air Force Inst of Technology
87. University of Cincinnati
88. West Virginia University
89. Wayne State University
90. University of Houston
91. Worcester Polytechnic Inst
92. Brigham Young University
93. Stevens Inst of Technology
94. University of Oklahoma
95. Alabama-Huntsville
96. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
97. Kentucky
98. Univ of Southwestern Louisiana
99. Cami
100. Louisiana State you & A&M College
101. University of South Florida
102. Mississippi State University
103. New Jersey Inst of Technology
104. Oklahoma State University
105. University of Alabama
106. University of South Carolina
107. Kansas State University
108. Florida Institute of Technology
109. Univ of Arkansas-Fayetteville
110. University of Toledo
111. University of Dayton
112. Howard University
113. Old Dominion University
114. University of Akron
115. Oregon Graduate Inst Sci & Tech
116. University of Wyoming
117. University of New Hampshire
118. Florida Atlantic University
119. Wichita State University
120. Portland State University
121. State Univ of New York-Binghamton
122. University of Mass-Lowell
123. University of Vermont
124. University of Idaho
125. Tennessee Technological Univ
126. Tulane University

[rickychan]

Dear Nadia,

Thank you very much for the list. Where did you find that? I would like to ask any list for ME?

I just took the PBT of GRE, so, my score report will not be available until mid december at the end of this year.

Do you know that MO Rolla is selective or not?

Here are some university I intend to apply:

U of New Orleans
U of Louisville
U of Akron
Louisiana Tech
Cal Poly
Oregon State
............
I am still finding some more
Anyway, I think I can have clearer idea after my GRE score is released later.

[Nadia666]

Dear Ricky,

I just did a google search for university rankings and came up w/ that list for EE. I don't know how selective you of mo at rolla is. You said they asked you to send a BETTER GRE score, so I assumed you had sent them one that they didn't like too much. What are their GRE requirements? They are ranked fairly high though so it might be hard for us to get in. to be safe, I think we shouldn't apply to any of those ranked schools. I applied to louisiana state university at baton rouge and got rejected . the universities you listed where you plan to apply, have you checked their gpa requirements etc?

take care,

Nadia

[rickychan]

Dear Nadia,

yes I do, I checked them.
Some of them say "3.0" but they do offer provisional admission.
I think for engineering students, a excellent Q score ( say, 800) might be helpful.

Yes, I agree with you. We might have to choose some schools not ranked!

[Nadia666]

Dear Ricky,

Let me know how you did on your GRE score when you know, and also let me know which schools you will apply to for Fall 2004. Good luck.

Nadia

[rickychan]

Dear Nadia,

I will surely inform you my result. Anyway, I just can't wait to know it. Just getting sick of keep waiting and waiting.

You too, I hope that your application will be successful.
I will keep you inform if I have any new information about schools and application.

Take care and good luck


Ricky

[Nadia666]

Thanks Ricky,

My email is dakhsha@iit.edu

Take care.