Name: Anonymous 2008-07-31 2:41
i'm going to be a senior in college this year and applying to grad school soon.
so i'm having a really hard time figuring out what schools i can get into with my 'stats'. i kind of fucked up the first year and a half of college, and only got mediocre grades, so my gpa is 3.0 after a year of almost straight A's
i'm going for a phd in math, so the schools i'm interested in are
UC Berkeley
UCLA
U o Chicago
U o Michigan
Cornell (maybe)
i'm confident that my gre general and math subject tests will be above average, probably in the top 10-30%. so good, but not outstanding.
can i get into the schools above? or is that just unrealistic... and if so, what schools should i apply to? what would be the 'second-rate' math grad schools that would take me?
i'm currently attending UC santa cruz, and i started taking graduate classes last quarter, and i can certainly keep up with the phd program here, but i really dont like the idea of spending another 6-10 years in santa cruz. that being said, its probably the best backup-school i have.
also does being a state resident matter as much as it does for undergrad applications?
ARGHHH its so hard to find information about this, theres so many shitty grad school search websites and so much clutter from undergrad information.
tl;dr, what are some second-rate math grad schools
so i'm having a really hard time figuring out what schools i can get into with my 'stats'. i kind of fucked up the first year and a half of college, and only got mediocre grades, so my gpa is 3.0 after a year of almost straight A's
i'm going for a phd in math, so the schools i'm interested in are
UC Berkeley
UCLA
U o Chicago
U o Michigan
Cornell (maybe)
i'm confident that my gre general and math subject tests will be above average, probably in the top 10-30%. so good, but not outstanding.
can i get into the schools above? or is that just unrealistic... and if so, what schools should i apply to? what would be the 'second-rate' math grad schools that would take me?
i'm currently attending UC santa cruz, and i started taking graduate classes last quarter, and i can certainly keep up with the phd program here, but i really dont like the idea of spending another 6-10 years in santa cruz. that being said, its probably the best backup-school i have.
also does being a state resident matter as much as it does for undergrad applications?
ARGHHH its so hard to find information about this, theres so many shitty grad school search websites and so much clutter from undergrad information.
tl;dr, what are some second-rate math grad schools