[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

emailed by advisor, feb 23rd-25th

[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Got into UT-Austin with JSG fellowship.. extremely happy!

[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Anyone else out there? Anyone who has applied to stanford?

[GRE Rewrite- Some of the verbal section was the same!]

I got the same exact writing prompt and I saw a question or two repeat

[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Undergrad Institution: Big state school

Major(s): geological sciences

Minor(s):

GPA in Major: 3.96

Overall GPA: 3.99

Position in Class: Near top

Type of Student: Irrelevant

GRE Scores (revised/old version):

Q: 164

V: 157

W: 4

P:

Research Experience: Couple of years with my prof, presented a couple times at conferences. Summer internship with NASA doing remote sensing work

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Basic academic scholarships, small research grant

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: NASA intern, student research assistant for my research advisor

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:

Special Bonus Points: Should have pretty good recs, applied for fellowships, good connection with a couple of profs at prospective schools

Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: plan on submitting my thesis to a journal, indicating it in my statement of purpose, transferred from a top 25 school after my freshman year where my GPA was 3.54

Applying to Where:

Stanford - GES - sedimentary geology

Columbia - EES - structure, earth history

UTexas Austin - DGS - structure

Princeton - Geosciences - earth history

Mines - Geology - economic geology

Harvard - EPS - earth history

UC Davis - Geology - .

UArizona - Geology - structure