Grad School

Good day, /sci/. Judging by the people who frequent here, I think this is as good a place as any to ask.

How difficult is it to get into grad school? I want to study mathematics, preferably at Purdue. To that end, I'm double majoring (math and stats) and have decent grades (3.8). I'm also involved in extra-curricular activities.

What, if anything, am I missing? I'm currently a 3rd year student, so I have time to implement recommendations if you have any.

>>24
Yeah, I've did one a couple years ago and hopefully another over this summer.  It really depends a lot on the research program that you're looking at.  My current University offers a program on a competitive basis for people who pick their topics prior to going through the program and the few people who have the most interesting topics get it.  Others, however, are a lot different and often times will be in a group setting working with multiple other people.  And in that setting you *probably* will just be given a topic that you will be working on or be simply aiding in a broad topic that everyone else in the research group is working on.

tl;dr:  depends on the program, but most likely the topic will be picked for you.