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  1. If you want to do math and get money, then do Math Finance or Operations Research. I transferred from being an algebraist to applied for exactly the same reason that concerns you. The former pretty much requires a PhD in math or physics, and supposedly will get you many hundreds of thousands per year after a very short while. Prepare to work your ass off for it. The latter can give you a 9-5 job, probably around $125k starting.
  2. The GRE is primarily calculus, a near-perfect score is somewhat expected. The lack of research will hurt you at the upper level, as well as your classes if they are not at the graduate level. If you're a woman or minority that will help a lot. You'll probably be accepted at UVA. I went there for my undergrad and with a slightly higher GPA, research, and several graduate classes, I was accepted easily (it was my safety school). The incoming class that I met at orientation had stats similar to yours or slightly lower. My undergrad advisor said that I would be able to get into places like Berkeley or Michigan, but my application process was a bloodbath and I ended up at University of Maryland (which turned out to be great). I hate to be a killjoy, but it seems that things are a lot more competitive since the days of our professors. UIUC may be a stretch I think, I have an officemate who came from there and didn't get in. My advice is to shotgun the entire band of universities. Don't be caught up in the ranking though, it's much more important that the school has strengths in the subject you want to study. You might want to go to a place with a decent applied department, because you may end up doing it. I came to UMD as an algebraist, and I was incredibly lucky that there was a good applied program because I ended up doing that.
  3. Hello all, This is my first post, I hope it's in the right place. I'm currently an Applied Math PhD student at the University of Maryland studying OR. I've gotten to the point where I want to start internships and think about the job I'm going to have when I graduate. Because I'm not a business school student, I'm not allowed access to the business school career center. The University's career center is geared to undergraduates and is not helpful for me (They want SAT scores? Seriously?). Does anyone have any feedback or resources regarding OR jobs after a doctorate? What I currently have is a list of "technical" consulting firms such as Rand Corporation which seem like the obvious choice. However, I recently had an informal interview with someone from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and they seemed to imply that they would hire somebody like me post-PhD. After talking with them, they seem to do strategic consulting (should Walmart expand into Canada or not?), nothing really technical at all. The example problems posed to me were not at all OR related but were relatively straightforward and it seemed like something that I could do. My question is this: Are there other careers for PhD OR graduates other than the traditional "optimize UPS's truck delivery" jobs? I enjoy the work that I do now and would enjoy a career that continued its technical nature, but it's very unlikely that whatever job I take will involve a continuation of my thesis. As such, I feel that I should investigate all the jobs that I would be able to do and enjoy. Thoughts? PS: For those of you who are undergraduates looking to do graduate work, I'd be happy to give any perspective I can.
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