lucifer_sam

Thanks for the background, but that doesn't help me whatsoever. I'm interested in Berkeley because it has the best program in the world for my field of choice. Last year they accepted 44 candidates for graduate mechanical engineering studies out of a pool of 893 applicants, most of which had GPAs over 3.70. It's definitely a stretch school for me, even if I had the grades for it I probably wouldn't get in.

What I'm really concerned about is the strength of the school's program, if it means making better contacts in the industry I'll go somewhere that I have a decent chance getting into rather than somewhere that has nice weather.

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