tydil

Luckily I got in to one place already, but I'm still waiting on 6 more. One thing is certain though: I'm making my decision by April 15th. Maybe I'm over-confident for being accepted somewhere, but at this point I think if a university can't get it together to make a decision by April 15th, I'm going to make the decision for them whether their loss or mine.

hidden ninja

To how many schools did you apply? I think most people have their plan B as "If I don't get into Dream School, I'll go to second choice school." After that, it's time to get another Master's or find one of those fancy internships (that accepts post-bac).

"They" either found out I studied economics also or I told them, but I get plenty of emails from business schools. I have to admit the Hult International Business School makes some impressive offers. Their most recent email offered me an ipad...Yeah it's nothing like what I want to do with my life but hey, free ipad.

I signed up to let other universities see my general GRE scores and the emails from top-notch places around the country still aren't slowing down. The emails all read similarly: From the admissions office of (examples include all the math dream schools you could imagine: Berkley, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Stanford) We saw your GRE scores and suggest you apply for the Math Finance program at our super-duper-so-great-you-didn't-even-bother-to-apply-because-you-won't-get-in school. Sign, The people you'll always be jealous of I read these emails and get excited when I see the word Math, but then that Finance word brings me back down. The emails are providing encouragement for some of my friends who want to study math finance at these schools, but they're taunting me. Just wanted to know if anyone is feeling the same way. Note: verbal 520, quant: 790. (as far as I've seen, it's no big deal).

I will probably end up at RPI for applied math (no, I don't mean accounting). I'm leaning toward combinatorics/graph theory or my undergrad research of wavelets/harmonic analysis.

I got the rejection email from Dream University and left the lecture. As I told friends I only got the "well everything happens for a reason." My response: "Yes, and the reason is I'm not good enough. You're not helping. (Many tears)" One of my friends said she has no idea how to help people when they're upset (and neither do I) so we tried the experiment of her just saying "I'm sorry" over and over. It was really nice, actually. The best response I got was via text message "uhm i think u over qualified yur probably too good for them well hopefully X now did u hear from any other uni?" Nothing like a sweet girl trying to rebuild a giant ego recently crushed.

The last year of my undergrad I was in no way ready to apply for a PhD at another uni and I would be applying so late and without the math subject gre, so I took up a master's in my second major (econ). I'll graduate at the end of summer and move on to a PhD in math. Getting a master's is a way to show your PhD schools that you can handle the course load. Many of my professor tell me that they've all seen students get rejected to decent schools, then earn their math masters, and then get into great schools to get a math PhD. I'm assuming this is true for other fields as well. You should definitely go for it. I think of my time earning a master's as time well spent so I can prepare adequately for PhD applications.

Yo momma so slow, the infinite sum from 0 to infinity of (1/2)^n counts to 2 faster than her.