saskiiaa

Hello! Ok, some background... I'm a European citizen, but I moved to the US and attended high school here, undergrad at Rutgers in NJ, and started my PhD at the U of Utah. However, I never finished my PhD and just quit the program after 2 years (problems ranging from location to lots of other problems with funding in the research group and so on), which means that I do have my MSc, but without a thesis project! What I would really like to do is go back to Europe and attend graduate school there, wherever they have a research group I'm interested in (for example, U of Heidelberg, Stockholm U, U Potsdam and so on). Luckily, being a European citizen, I won't have much trouble with immigration issues. But there are several other things I'm not sure about: 1. Many programs ask for you to have done a Masters with a thesis, which I haven't done. I do however have 5 years research experience and did an undergraduate thesis. Is it possible that I'd have to redo my Masters? 2. How important are PGRE scores exactly? I have a 650 or something, don't quite remember... 3. Also some unis require you to have a B+ for your Master's, which I don't have. Mine is a 3.27, or a 81.7% which is a B or B-... because my program required an 80% for passing. So obviously that's the grade they gave to almost everyone except the exceptional students. Are they as strict about this as American unis (aka, they see the score and throw your app into the trash)? 4. Do you think that my absence from academia (I graduated August 2012...) will work against me, or that they won't care about it? Anyway just some worries... I'll also email the programs directly with some questions but I'd rather get a feel for the situation first. Thanks! Saskia