That's the 3.6 core that I mentioned, it's my GPA for major upper-level courses. My recommendations were written by both my research supervisors at the labs I worked at and a professor with whom I took 2, year-round courses. All 3 of them looked at my SoP, dunno if that counts as "a lot".
Yep. I am an international applicant. Yea, I knew my GPA would be the major hurdle as an international but for the next round I figure a much improved GRE score could help in some way at least (along with a subject test, as you said).
I never thought about my research experience that way and I can definitely see the Adcoms point of view regarding my moving around a lot. On the other hand, diversity was in fact brought up in my interview with BCM (only interview I got). Either way, I will probably get a poster out of my current project at work so I may have something to show for my time here and have the diversity.
Thank you!
I did talk to them before asking for the recommendation and they seemed pretty positive about my prospects. So I'm assuming they spoke well about me? Dunno, judging from my conversations with them, I can't think otherwise. I will speak with them again, though.
Thank you for the suggestions! I will look into those schools.
poseidon14 got a reaction from PlanB in Planning for Round 2 PhD applications