I mean the macro situatioin, the financial crisis, certainly has significant implication on our application. California is dying, I guess the negative consequence on education will not be small. Public universities have to cut down their budget, and actually these are UC series(I'm informed by one senior relative who works in UCSD)
Those are just prelude, actually what I want you to help is with my background~~~
GRE:650+780+3.0. AW sucks to the hell, but no time to take another now. so i can't repent. However, I got papers in english, but not as 1st author, I'm 2nd and 3rd and 5th.
GPA 3.69, major gpa could be more than 3.8.
mediocre LoR~no big figures.
Now I'm worrying about the Statement. Do you guys write it straightforwardly, I mean, list your reasons/activities/capacity and interests. Or make it rather complex, in a manner like literature?
Statement is obfuscating! You have to organize your experiences meticulously, they stuck there even if they are just at hand.