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  1. After a long weekend of waiting, my advisor responded and said it was fine for me to make these changes and submit to the library.
  2. So I recently passed my PhD viva with minor corrections. After making these corrections, receiving approval of my corrections, and waiting for permission to upload to my uni's research archive I noticed some mistakes that my examiners nor my PI spotted. Some were minor, which included formatting and grammar errors. Others included the wrong concentration listed for a chemical and forgetting to put quotes and a citation around 2 sentences that I knew was taken from a paper. I made these corrections immediately, but then I began contemplating whether what I did was right. On one hand, I know my thesis will be a resource for the lab and I don't want it to be wrong or ambiguous for future members. And if I know its wrong and do nothing about it, esp. with forgetting the quotes (=plagiarism), isn't that plain ignorant not what I was trained to do as a scholar? But on the other hand, I feel its quite sketchy because I'm correcting after the fact my examiners approved. My university's policy states that no corrections whatsoever can be made after our division board grants me permission to graduate and submit to the library's online archive by notice. I made these corrections before the written notice was provided and stopped as soon as I got it. What should I do at this point?
  3. Well I would like to go to grad school immediately and I just feel that taking one year (since these schools admit in Fall) to spend a few hundred dollars for completing one exam might not be worth it...
  4. is there a chance that my other qualifications can offset this low GRE score?
  5. So you're both saying that they can simply reject me on the basis of below average GRE scores?
  6. I was a bit busy this year with my research and did not put a lot of energy into studying for my GREs. On my first attempt I got Q: 159 V: 154 and W: 5. I really want to get into a CS masters such as the UPenn MCIT program or the one at UChicago, specifically targeted to those without a background in CS. However I do believe that they look at GRE scores because a bulk of their applicants come from non quantitative areas like the liberal arts. Hence the reported GRE average is quite high (at 165 Q and 160 V) and they admit roughly 20% of applicants out of 300 or so every year. How badly are my chances wrecked for admissions? I have a high 3.7 GPA, I studied math abroad and did quite well. My work experience includes two labs, one of which is an aircraft construction lab, and the second is an aerodynamics one. I did development economics research in a foreign university and am working on financial signaling research, particularly modeling currency swaps and developing alternatives to econometrics. How would admissions think of this scenario where a student comes in with a strong quantitative background built over 4 years but just screwed up on test day?
  7. I'm a double major economics and math student studying in the US and I have a 3.74 GPA. It was a 3.8+ earlier but I screwed up on a final for Ring/Group Theory and got a C in the class and with Analysis 1 final two hours later I emerged with a B+. Point is, this was my worst finals day ever and besides being disappointed in myself I am also concerned that, due to the importance of these two courses, my admissions chances have been severely damaged. Additionally these are the last set of grades that the admissions committee will see and its a very abrupt drop from how I performed before. I talked to a few professors about this and they told me that since I'm going for applied math and a masters I may be okay but they are not sure themselves. Another said that because 3.75 is pretty high, in their view, some admissions committees may look at the other stuff like research. Based on your guys' experience with admissions in the past how would you assess my situation? I have done research at NASA for two years, worked in a school lab on fluid dynamics and will defend my thesis in this field, did development economics research abroad, and am currently working on a paper regarding fuel derivatives for airlines. I also studied math abroad at a top university. The masters programs I am considering are: Columbia Applied Physics/concentration Applied Math Stanford Mathematical Engineering Northwestern Engineering Sciences and Applied Math Johns Hopkins Applied Math EPFL (Switzerland) Computational Science and Engineering Purdue Computational Science/Engineering Georgia Tech Computational Science/Engineering UPenn Computer and Info Tech My recommendation letters should be very strong. The problem I had with the group/ring theory class was that I could not come up with proofs fast enough on an exam so I will probably focus my energy in the next and last term of senior year on computational courses like Stochastic Calculus, Calculus of Variations, and Deterministic Math Models. Anyways, I'd like to know the following so I can plan next steps: -assessment of my situation -any advice or changes in schools I should be applying to? -Is having a C in this pure class going to affect me if I go onto do a PhD later on or is there some way to make it up? Thank you all in advance for your help.
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