Purdue University in West Lafayette is a public institution that was founded in 1869. It has a total graduate student enrollment of 2,513 students on a full-time basis and 557 students enrolled as part-time for the year 2013. With a total annual tuition fee of $29,000, it is one of the expensive graduate schools in the U.S. It is ranked 8th on the top engineering schools in the U.S. and number 7 on the top mechanical engineering programs in the U.S.
Recently one of my GRE students from Pakistan made it to the mechanical engineering Masters program at Purdue university on partial financial aid in the form of a teaching assistantship. In order to help other students, he has agreed to share his professional profile with all of us.
Please note that this profile will only help you gauge where you stand but is by no means a confirmation of getting in Purdue.
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Admitted To
- Purdue University (75% Tuition Waiver)
- Arizona State University (Full Tuition Waiver)
- University of California at Santa Barbara ($10500 scholarship per year)
Rejected From
- UT Austin
- MIT
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of California at Los Angeles
Professional Profile
Graduated From NUST in Mechanical Engineering
CGPA 3.29/4.0
Scores GRE Scores: 317 (Quantitative: 162; Verbal: 155; Analytical Writing Assessment: 4.5) & TOEFL: 112
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Projects Just the Undergraduate final year project in which I got a B+.
Work Experience 2 years of work experience at a local beverages company production plant.
Research Papers None
Letter of Recommendation 2 from professors (both PhD from UK), 1 from job (from Line Manager)
Extracurricular activities None
Test Preparation I spent 2.5 months on my GRE preparation. Studying for GRE is not easy. Achieving a high score requires far more than just flipping through a book a few nights before the exam. You will surely need many weeks of rigorous preparation and several cups of midnight coffee to do well on this challenging exam.
Personal Statement I spent 3 weeks finalizing my personal statement and got some professional help. In my essay I emphasized on making my story interesting to read.
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Why Purdue? Well, the reason is pretty obvious. Its one of the top 10 engineering programs in the U.S. and Purdue offered me a teaching assistantship that paid my partial tuition fee. I would advice students to do well on the GRE as it can cover a lot of shortcomings in our academic past.