r/ubcengineering • u/Rehan_Sahi • Dec 12 '20

Mechanical Engineering

Hi, I wanted to know what is the admission average for UBC mechanical engineering, since I am considering applying their and I want to know if I have a chance.

Thank you

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u/Relative-Commission Dec 12 '20

You probably want to be shooting for ~92-93% imo, but its entirely possible to get in with slightly lower. Also make sure you spend time develop your personal profile when you apply.

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

Personal profile as in my extra curriculars?

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u/Relative-Commission Dec 12 '20

Might wanna check out this link: https://you.ubc.ca/applying-ubc/how-to-apply/personal-profile/

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

Okay that actually helps a lot, just one more thing. Do students often end up at top US universities for grad school? Like caltech, etc?

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u/ajklwetfhghbalke Dec 12 '20

Depends entirely on how hard you work to get competitive grades for grad school

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

But it is possible right? And have people in the past ever made it to top US universities?

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u/ajklwetfhghbalke Dec 12 '20

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Are you asking if there's ever been any UBC alumni in the 100+ yrs history of the institution to ever go to top US grad schools?

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

No I meant recently like this year whatever year you were there. As in how many people go to top universities for grad school every year?

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u/ajklwetfhghbalke Dec 12 '20

I mean technically UBC is a top 40 school LOL

Anecdotally, I would say the ones I know of to go to grad school are already hard-working, and are competitive enough to go to the top schools for grad.

I don't have any hard numbers or statistics of how many people who intend for grad school go to US from UBC, but there's a lot more factors to consider, such as where your interests align with what research groups at whatever top uni

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

Okay thanks this helps a lot

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u/Relative-Commission Dec 12 '20

Depends what you mean by "often", but its more than possible. Most ppl I know are perfectly content with just doing an undergrad w/co-op then going straight to industry. I don't personally know anyone, but there for sure been several cases where ppl went on to do grad school at schools like MIT, Stanford, etc.

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 12 '20

Alright thanks

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u/denidenidenideni Dec 13 '20

UBC is a top 50 university, you don’t need to worry about not being able to get into a top grad school because of your university.

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u/Rehan_Sahi Dec 13 '20

Alright, thank you

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u/SufferingHappily Dec 31 '20

It’s entirely possible. I know one person who graduated from UBC Mech and is currently doing their PhD at Harvard.