maelduin

Hey everyone, So I'm looking to get into a a Masters program in Forest Ecology/Hydrology or something focused on climate change/climate change mitigation and adaptation. I've been looking at a few different schools and their programs. Here's my overall statistcs: GPA (Last 3 years): 3.56 Major GPA: 3.8 GRE Verbal: 161 Quant: 159 AWA: Waiting I've been actively studying about different climate issues and topics through coursera. I don't have access to a reasonable univiersity as I live in Japan. I'm trying to connect with locals to get into a forestry project, but recently just studying for the GRE and researching grad programs has taken a lot of time. Where do you think I stand for these schools? Berkeley Yale University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Washington, Seattle (this is where I'd love to go) Oregon State University University of Michigan In addition, do you have any other recommendations for places I should look at? Thanks for any help!

DLBack, Thanks again! I looked at Berkeley's site too and it was pretty clear about their requirements. I hope I am competitive, it looks like I could be... it almost seems like the requirements are pretty similar to my specs. Thanks!

Thanks for getting back to me DLBack! Out of curiosity, where do I find information like the average scores on grad profiles? I've tried to hard to find these things and yet it's pretty hard to find a lot of reliable information. Any pointers?

Just putting this out there again for consideration if someone is following me, but what if I scored the following: V: 167 Q: 156-160 AWA: 5-5.5 I have a 3.2 GPA from a Big 10 School, my Major GPA was a 3.9, however and I showed some incredible improvements in my last 3 years. With that, some good LORs and at least some attempt to show that I'm working hard to do some sort of "research" or that I'm actively interested in this field, do you think I have a chance at programs like those at the University of Washtingon, Wisconsin Madison, Oregon State University, or University of Idaho? Colorado State is also somewhere in that list. I don't think I can make it into a program like Yale or Berkeley, but maybe I should play down my chances too much. Anyways, just looking for some input, what do you think? For background, I'm an arts major with a Japanese and East Asian Studies focus who spent 4 years in Japan teaching. I'm trying to go back and do something I'm actually passionate about.

What do you think would be a good GRE baseline to look at for an MS in Forestry, say at a top tier school like the University of Washington. I'm working hard on studying for my first try at the test. So far I can get around a 164-166 in Verbal on practice tests, but I'm under 160 on the quant. What do you think I would need for a good school like UW? Thank you in advance for any help!

Thanks a lot! I did have a short history in Chemistry. But then dropped it all for the Japanese degree I hold now. As for math, I tested out of most of the math in college, and had credits for calculus 1 at least throughout school. The rest of the records of maths and sciences don't show up too positively, as I had some issues in my first year of school. I'm starting with some volunteering very soon actually! Thanks a lot for your advice. Do you think that programs would consider something like edX or Coursera courses substantial enough for a background?

Hello. New to the forum here, but I looked around and saw some wonderful information, so I decided to go ahead and post. I'm a Japanese/East Asian Studies graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I've been working for the past 4 years in Japan teaching English, and have become quite enamored with this dream of being a forester in the time I've been here. I wanted to know if there was a chance that I could actually do such a thing. Move from a arts degree to a science degree. Do you have any suggestions about what I should do to impress upon the admissions committees of various schools that I'm serious and dedicated to the idea? Thanks for any advice you might have!