Average GRE (Quantitative) score of Top 50 engineering school in US

[Aun]

Source: World Science & Engineering University Portal: America's Best Graudate Engineering Schools 2009

World Science & Engineering University Portal : America's Best Graudate Engineering Schools 2009

Rank School

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 777
2. Stanford University, 780
3. University of California-Berkeley, 772
4. Georgia Institute of Technology, 767
5. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 774
6. California Institute of Technology, 800
7. Carnegie Mellon University, 765
8. University of Southern California, 753
9. Cornell University, 775
9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 770

[thecandidate]

high gre scores are just not enough for those schools, especially for the top three you mentioned.
besides gre scores, high gpa and stable reco's are not enough neither.
I just do not know what else a human being should do in order to get in those schools.

[CalmLogic]

For MS degrees (at least in computer science), USC is relatively easy to get into compared to other schools of a similar rank. So the quantitative GRE averages that Aun posted seem very accurate.

(Anyway, Aun is just trying to spread the word about the information he/she has "acquired" about the average GRE for each school.)

[MDK]

GRE scores are used as plain cutoff, nothing more nothing less.

[CalmLogic]

I just do not know what else a human being should do in order to get in those schools.

Keep on publishing, I guess

An example of a brilliant CMU student:

YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Of course, this guy is above average even for CMU, which is why CMU highlights him on their HCI website.

[Aun]

YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Of course, this guy is above average even for CMU, which is why CMU highlights him on their HCI website.

[thecandidate]

hey guys i didnt mean these are unnecessary data, just even the sum of these may even not be enough (indeed generally you have to keep a high profile in each of the parts of application, but still every generalization is flawed including this one )

[CalmLogic]

Yeah, I knew what you meant. Ideally, one wants something special that can really stand out, like a best student paper award at an international conference.