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frankdux, Thanks for your advice. I appreciate it. Sorry to hear about the situation you are in. Keep plugging away. All you need is passion for math. There are close to 3000 Univ and colleges in the States, you are bound to get in someplace. I live in Canada right now, and its pretty rough getting in here, as there are only like 20 universities that offer graduate programs in Math, so they are very very restrictive about who gets in. Just out of curiosity, were you restricting your choice of schools based on a certain factor, like region or ranking or something else? I agree that studying for the GRE subject will be like trying to move mountains, given my situation. I'm gonna see if I can find some private tutor or professor to give me a crash course on some of these topics and see how I fare, but if by the end of summer I feel like I not made much progress then I am defaulting to applying to schools that only require the GRE general. Im only looking to do Masters. Hopefully schools arent too fussy about that.

haha maximkat good one, but the MIT EECS program assumes you have won at least one Nobel Prize and having a 4.5 GPA out of 4.0.

hey man, are you sure you wanna do an applied math program? don't do it because you are desperate to get out of law school. I mean if you really love math and can see yourself doing it for the next 2-3 yrs then great, but if you aren't sure and think you may like it, then I urge you to reconsider and think real hard before you spend more of your precious time and money on this matter. it appears you haven't taken that many math classes....most faculty members, when making decisions on whom to admit, look at how many math classes a person has taken, especially at the 300-400 level. this is my situation. i am leaving the industry after 10 yrs to pursue a masters in math, but I didn't take many 300 level classes, so I am in the midst of taking them before I start applying. Math is fun and beautiful and despite the ass kicking I get sometimes from the difficult concepts, I still enjoy going to class to learn more. any school worth their salt will require at the very least the GRE general test. i would be very very very wary of schools that don't require the GRE general test. such schools may have terrible/indifferent faculty, may not offer any good classes to teach or may have some other issues going on. I am surprised Georgetown doesnt require the GRE. is it the general or subject test they dont require? still as a general rule of thumb, i would be careful of schools that dont want the GRE general. if I were you, I would first take some math and finance classes and then decide if I wanna go into Math or Financial engineering. To me Financial engineering is a far more complex subject than math and it can get hard very soon. you will make a lot of money sure with the degree in financial engineering, but the work can be pretty complex with a lot of grey area to deal with. if you are comfy dealing with grey areas then you should look into financial engineering

Hello, I graduated 10 yrs ago with a BA in Math from a US liberal arts college. I am looking to go back to do my Masters (preferably in Applied Math) in Math. I am undecided as to whether I should take the GRE Math test. There are some universities whose Math programs I like but they require or highly recommend taking the GRE subject test. The problem is that I do not remember all of my linear algebra or analysis or abstract algebra, and I am not sure that, without having to retake these classes, that I would be effective in reviewing all this course work just by buying a couple of books from Amazon and studying for it. I mean calculus and linear alg and diff eq are fairly easy for me and I should be able to review them with no problem, but Elem Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra were never my strong points....hell I didnt even take topology and Complex analysis..and then you add a 10 yr absence from doing math..you get the picture....so I am not sure how to effectively study for all these courses again, short of actually taking them. I am not looking to apply to any highly elite schools like MIT or the UC system of schools (aka UCLA, UC-Berk, UCSD etc)...just some easy going simple grad program in Math will do for me. Yet there are universities like U Vermont, Oregon State etc whose programs intrigue me and I would like to give them a shot in applying there as well, but they require the GRE subject test. Just out of curiosity, why do some universities require the subject test and some dont? is it because the ones that do require the subject test think of themselves as high calibre? I mean ok I can understand Harvard and MIT requiring the subject test, but I am noticing that even some low tiered places require it, which doesnt make sense..... so what do y'all think? is it worth it for me to undergo the pain of learning for the subject test, give my situation? PS: I also have a follow up question about which are good easy going non Harvard like schools to apply to, but maybe I'll put that in separate topic..still any and all suggestions are appreciated