sk2468

Hi! I'm a domestic, female, minority (well, I'm not white) applying for Pure Math PhD Programs this fall. I did my undergrad at a top 30 Liberal Arts school with a graduate program (ranked top 20 private by the AMS), overall gpa 3.75. I double majored in Math (with Honors) and Economics. I graduated Magna Cum Laude and with a school-wide undergraduate research fellowship for my research in Experimental Economics, which I got published this past year. I also did a lot of extracurriculars. I am now doing a Masters as the same school in pure math. I will be finishing my degree at the end of this year, and will be doing a research project. I am interested in studying Topology in graduate school (geometric topology, low dimensional topology, and geometric group theory). I've also gone to a bunch of workshops and conferences while in my Masters program. I will have one REALLY good letter from a well known mathematician, one strong letter, and I'm still figuring out the third (it'll probably be a good letter whoever it comes from). I kindof messed up my first semester of my Masters program last year (I did pretty not well in one of my classes), but I've rebounded since. But I got my GRE score back and it was a lot lower than what I expected, coming in around 30th percentile. =( I took the second exam in October too, and I expect that one to be higher since I answered more questions, but I won't know my score for a while. I'm now really worried about where I should apply to graduate schools. This is where I was thinking about applying: Definitely Applying: UC Santa Barbara UC Davis Boston College Illinois at Urbana Champaign Tufts University Rice University Probably Applying: Georgia Tech UT Austin Indiana Bloomington McGill McMaster Wisconsin Ohio State Does anyone have any suggestions about schools to apply to? Are there any schools I should automatically take off this list, or that I should add to it? Any advice would be sincerely appreciated!