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    Hanyuye reacted to starmaker in The sub-3.0 GPAs ACCEPTANCE thread   
    There seems to be a pattern of big state schools being more strict about minimum GPA requirements in this thread. Maybe it's just an anecdotal quirk, I'm not sure.

    MaxiJaz: The farther you get out of undergrad and the more you have to show, the less your GPA matters. GPA is a proxy for merit because most undergrads don't have enough meaningful accomplishments in their fields to assess merit (and the programs also want some assurance that you'll be able to pass the coursework/quals hurdles).
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    Hanyuye reacted to cleff in 2009 Applicant Profiles   
    Undergrad Institution: A hacker engineering school in New England with many movie references
    Major(s): Electrical Engineering
    Minor(s): Biomedical Engineering
    GPA in Major: 3.3
    Overall GPA: 3.4
    Length of Degree: 5 years, BS + Masters
    Position in Class: No freaking idea
    Type of Student: Female, naturalized citizen

    GRE Scores:
    Q: 800
    V: 710
    W: 5.0

    Research Experience: REU program as undergrad, 2 summers + a term R&D internship

    Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA (1 summer)

    Applied for PhD at:
    Berkeley - EE - Rejected
    CMU - EE - Rejected
    Harvard - EE - Rejected
    MIT - EE - Rejected
    HST MEMP - Rejected
    Yale - EE - Rejected
    Princeton - EE - Waitlisted
    Columbia - EE - Accepted (with fellowship?)
    Cornell - EE - Accepted with fellowship
    JHU - EE - Accepted with fellowship
    Stanford - EE - Accepted with fellowship
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    Hanyuye reacted to Usmivka in Help! Clueless undergrad wanting to learn about Grad School   
    I completely disagree. Most geosciences profs I know would be thrilled to have this happen.

    Also, University of Washington has one of the top Geology departments in the country in terms of name recognition, grant funding, and publications.It is an especially good choice if you want to do something unusual, like geobiology or planetary geology. Cornell is also very well regarded.

    If you want more ideas, go to the AGU website and look at where people were presenting from at the last annual meeting.
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    Hanyuye reacted to Tashan in Stanford vs University of Texas at Austin for PhD in Petroleum Engineering   
    Hi all

    I have been accepted at Stanford University as well as UT Austin for PhD in Petroleum Engineering. I have to decide between the two.

    My main future objective after completing my Phd is to enter oil industry in R&D jobs.

    As per the US News Rankings both Stanford and UT Austin are tied at No.1 in the field of Petroleum Engineeing.

    Where shall I join then ?
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    Hanyuye reacted to Armadilla in USC vs UT Austin   
    man, just come over here, Austin is awesome and there is a big Indian community in the North Austin Area (although, since most of those guys are well-employed in semi conductors industry, the restaurants are pretty expensive
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    Hanyuye reacted to layibiyi in USC vs Penn St. vs Pitt (petroleum engineering)   
    sup bro, what did u finally decide. how is petroleum engineering at USC
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    Hanyuye reacted to ISEngineer in MS, PhD (Structural engineering) in US universities.. help required...   
    that font is not very readable :-)
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    Hanyuye reacted to tominkini in Textbook Suggestions for Math Subject GRE   
    here is my two cents on the matter:

    doing well on the test is more about how fast you can pump out answers and sometimes if you can narrow down to making a very educated guess on other stuff vs knowing advanced topics.

    i liked the Princeton Review book, I think it's called "Cracking the Math Subject GRE" or something like that. if you search these on google, it will know which one, I'm not 100% on any of the names, but I'll get you close enough for google to do the rest.

    the REA book "The Best Mathematics GRE Test Prep" does not live up to its name. I found a copy for a dollar on amazon or half or something, so I figured, why not. the tests are a bit out there and unrealistic of the actual exam. having taken almost the entire gambit of undergraduate mathematics at two very good schools (one being a top private school honors college & the other an ivy league), there is loads of vocab that is esoteric to the point that, even with my background, i've never heard of some stuff and had no clue how to go about answering. I basically used it to do 4-5 problems out of each day for a few months before the test. At least all the answers are explained and solved in the book, but I love how it always says "It's a well known fact that ..." or "It's obvious and elementary that ..." uhh, maybe to whoever is writing this but not to a normal Joe studying for the GRE. I do think the book is valuable, just not as a resource to sit down and take practice tests from. Solving problems slowly over a couple months is fine since it'll give you a chance to look stuff up and learn as you go, but totally unrealistic prep for the real thing.

    your best bet is to find PDFs of past exams / practice exams to take. They are out there on the web if you look hard enough and don't mind going to sketchy sites ... I ran a scan of my system after every place I looked for old exams.

    Other than that, review your pre-calc / trig, calc / analysis, and algebra / linear algebra and you'll be fine. The test doesn't really cover advanced stuff, maybe a question or two about rings or topological spaces, but not enough to really devote time to those areas rather than drilling pre-calc, calc/analysis, and algebra/linear algebra.

    I made a few flash cards to help prep too. they were mainly meant to accelerate my response time by cutting out things I normally just work out via substitution / looking up / taylor expansion / etc... What I'm referring to is memorizing things like:

    integrals of cot x, csc x, sec x (which I normally just look up), all kinds of trig identities that, again, I normally just look up quickly, law of sines / cosine, 5-10 of the most common Laplace transforms / inverse transforms, etc...

    I think I had about 40 cards total and I did end up using a few of the identities / laws / whatever on the test. It probably obviated 5-10 minutes of busy work that I was able to devote to other questions. I'm quite certain I've forgotten most of them now, but it's worth the time I spent memorizing them. To be honest, I kept them beside the toilet so I would flip through them for a min or two each day for a couple months and it never really set me back in "real" study time, haha.

    if you have the above stuff covered and are sick of reviewing, learn the basic counting formulas from combinatorics, basic distribution stuff from probability, and make sure you can do all the basic stuff with complex numbers (like polar form and taking powers and division). you can probably bet on there being at least 1-2 of each of those questions on the test, so spending a couple days going over that may get you 3-5 more points if you didn't already know those basic topics.

    not sure what else to say. good luck? hope this post helped a bit.
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    Hanyuye reacted to cajunmama in MS in Petroleum Engineering with Applied Math Background   
    I'm saying you should consider and compare career opportunities post-MS in each of those fields- mechanical, chemical, civil and petroleum- and make whatever decision is best for you. I have classmates from each of those fields currently working in the petroleum industry and classmates from each of those fields working in their specific fields. I initially considered petroleum engineering for undergrad but then realized I didn't want to be locked into one industry. I went civil instead.
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    Hanyuye reacted to Britt32011 in Math modeling of infectious diseases?   
    I did a lot of research in biomath during undergrad and heard great things about uc davis, ohio state, and university of delaware. I think those are a few of the big places for biomath research at the moment.
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    Hanyuye reacted to Nano in Spring 2011 Admits & Rejects   
    Third admit - UW madison
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in Complicated academic history. Not sure what schools to aim for?   
    Sorry, I read that as "Anything else I can do to improve my chances. . ." which is the usual refrain you hear in these situations. And no, it's not "I can't get in anywhere. . .", but you certainly will have to be incredibly realistic about where you apply. Thing is, your best grade is an A- in real analysis. So while there is an upward trend, and you've done better, it's not THAT drastic of a shift in the other direction. Realistically, the academic performance you have RIGHT NOW, is what is going to go into your application as the fall semester will not be over before some applications are due; those that have Jan/Feb march deadlines, will an extra .1 gpa boost be that much of a difference - most likely not.

    I would say a top 50-100 school is definitely doable. As for your letters of recommendations, if a professor is NOT going to write you an EXCELLENT LOR, there is no reason to get it from them. "Just ok. . ." is just as pointless as a bad one. Look them square in the eye and ask them "What kind of letter is this going to be - ". With your academic background, you do not need a run-of-the-mill LOR sinking you.
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in Math modeling of infectious diseases?   
    Epi/Biostatistics deals with the analysis of datasets and information in order to make inferences. Biomath however deals with developing more mechanical and predictive models of biological phenomena. If that is what you mean by "mathematical modeling" though, you might want to start using the correct language (in SOP's for instance), or grad committees might look at your application and think "Is this person sure what they are applying for. . ."

    Also, most of those programs will have very large schools of Public Health (Emory definitely does), and if your background includes Calculus and Linear Algebra, then you should have little trouble being competitive. However, if you are positive you are going on to a PhD program, there is no reason to apply to their Public Health programs, and you should instead apply directly to their PhD program. The top programs all have some full-funding of some sort (Emory does funding for the first three years. . .after that you need to secure funding on your own - TA or RA or outside position).
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    Hanyuye reacted to was1984 in Salt Lake City, UT   
    I moved here a couple of years ago for a master's program. It's relatively inexpensive to live right near campus, so most students live in the area. I did this last year and could easily walk to campus. Be aware though that the campus is up in the foothills, and just about all of the housing is downhill. You'll get in really great shape. There are also plenty of city buses that are included with your tuition, if you're more lazy.

    This year I live further away in a really nice house very inexpensively. This is also a great option because parking permits on campus are really cheap. It's only about $150 for the top-tier student parking permit for the entire year. Suburbia is definitely more, shall I say, religiously inclined, but as long as you live somewhere in Salt Lake City proper you won't be overwhelmed. There are some more sketchy neighborhoods on the western side of town, but overall SLC is very safe.

    The beer in SLC is good, but limited. Most people actually drink local brews around here, but there isn't a whole lot of variety. Squatters/Wasatch is the most popular brand, though there are a few others. Utah does indeed have some strange liquor laws, which we all have opinions on, but in general they aren't that irritating. You will find that many brands do not import to Utah because of the laws (part of why people drink local), and that alcohol is a bit on the expensive side (because of the taxes). As a beer lover myself, it hasn't been too bad.

    The biggest upside for SLC is the phenomenal skiing, climbing, and mountain biking, which are all some of the best in the entire world. Make sure you give yourself time to do these things if you are inclined to be outdoorsy, as it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. If you are not outdoorsy, I would caution you against coming here. Most other students and the non-Mormon population as a whole is an outdoor culture, and you might have trouble making friends.
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in I need help with a maths problem...   
    Cramster.
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    Hanyuye reacted to cwatts in Pure PhD Program Advice   
    I am applying for a Pure Math PhD for Fall 2013.
    I am currently in a Pure Master's program at my undergrad institution and should graduate May 2013 (assuming all goes well of course!).

    My Bachelor's is in Pure Math and I am a white female student.
    My GRE scores are V 610 (88%), Q 800 (94%), and Writing 4.5 (67%).

    As a graduate student I have already taken:
    Intro to Real Analysis (Pugh/Rudin) [A]
    Topology (Munkres) [b, retaking for an A this fall]
    Advanced Linear Algebra (Axler) [A]
    Abstract Algebra (Lanski, studying Dummit and Foote for comp exam) [b+]
    Complex Analysis (undergrad level) (Matthews and Howell) [A]

    I will be taking:
    Measure Theory (Bartle)
    Topology (retaking) (Munkres)
    Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization (undergrad level) (Kincaid)

    Complex Analysis (graduate level)
    Mathematical Statistics
    Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations (undergrad level)

    I have an undergrad research paper that has been accepted for publication this fall. It is an applied modelling paper, which unfortunately is not my area of interest.

    I have had my own precalculus class to teach for Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters, and feel very comfortable teaching (I really enjoy it).

    I think I would like to research more in to abstract algebra. My school is more focused on the applied and statistical areas so I have not had much in-depth exposure to the areas I would like to study more. I have not had any courses in number theory or graph theory and not very extensive courses in abstract algebra.

    As an undergrad, I was in Pi Mu Epsilon and Mortar Board. I took several years of French so I am not too worried about any language qualifiers.

    If anyone had suggestions on schools that they know of being more geared towards the algebras or that have a good breadth of research areas in pure mathematics it would be greatly appreciated.

    Here is a (very random) list of schools I am considering already:

    University of Kansas - Lawrence
    University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
    Penn State
    Dartmouth
    Purdue
    University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    University of Colorado - Boulder

    Thanks in advance for your help!
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    Hanyuye reacted to R Deckard in University Colorado at Boulder and Denver, U of New Mexico Applied Math/Biomath   
    From what I understand, the CU Boulder Applied Math program is definitely a good "up and coming" program that has been improving in reputation over the years and is probably better than most ratings indicate (at least US News). I hear their weather is excellent and campus is beautiful as well. They seem to have three professors working on mathematical biology, but I'm not familiar with anybody in mathematical biology to know their reputation specifically. Their people in computational math are strong, though (not sure if you have any interest there). I considered joining this program, but turned down their offer since I had several more appealing offers.

    Here are the NRC rankings for applied math, which may be of interest to you:

    http://chronicle.com...Applied/124704/

    Arizona might also be a good choose for a solid Applied Math program (probably equivalent to CU Boulder in strength). I think they're doing a lot of interdisciplinary stuff there, including mathematical biology and a lot of related areas.
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    Hanyuye reacted to GwenWoods in More money saved equals less funding?   
    I'm new to the way graduate funding works and I'm hoping someone can explain what universities take into account when deciding how to award scholarships.

    Right now I'm looking at Columbia, which states their scholarships are merit-based and need-based. So, my question is, let's say I have $30,000 saved, will this mean I get less aid because I've saved up more money? Or will they try and supply as much aid as they can to bring me closer to the $76,000 tuition+living expenses? I know for undergraduate scholarships it was better to be lower class than middle class in terms of scholarships.

    I have a 3.7 GPA as well—does anyone have any idea whether this is considered good enough for scholarships amounting over $15k?

    Thanks!
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    Hanyuye reacted to statsgirl8 in Chances Biostatistics MS with low GRE   
    I have taken calculus 1-3, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, statistical inference, probability theory, regression analysis, applied multivariate analysis, design of experiments, and mathematical statistics. During my senior year I plan to take data mining, non-parametric stat, and operations research as well as computer programming to boost my resume.
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    Hanyuye reacted to oseirus in New York, NY   
    Where the heck is Astoria?
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    Hanyuye reacted to TheFez in LOR for forgettable student   
    It would be nice if we all lived in Lake Wobegon - "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

    Unfortunately not everybody gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.
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    Hanyuye reacted to antecedent in Edinburgh, UK   
    Just out of curiosity, does anybody here have opinions about getting a cell phone in Edinburgh? Are their good carriers or ones to avoid? I've found several free VOIP calling and texting apps for smartphones, so I'll probably end up getting a smartphone. I know the UK tends to be FAR more reasonable than Canada and the US when it comes to phones, I'm just curious what other people have done in the past.
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in Can I have some idea of what schools I should be aiming for?   
    I had a great conversation with the folks at Missouri. If my academic goals hadn't changed in the resulting weeks, they would have been a contendor for where I wanted to end up. Only use those rankings as a "guide" - they ALL will provide an excellent academic background, so that shouldn't be the concern. Your concern should be in regards to research fit, and long term professional success.
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in Can I have some idea of what schools I should be aiming for?   
    Thing is, you don't need to attend a top 10 school (hell even a top 20) to have long term academic/professional success. Widen your net to the Top 50 (see what US News and Phd.org have to say about that) and you'll find some better fits academically and socially I'm thinking.

    Also, if you transition to biostats your chances of getting into some of those schools definitely increases - barrier to entry isn't that high for folks with OK math backgrounds.
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    Hanyuye reacted to ANDS! in Biostats MS program- how long can a bad grade haunt you?   
    Well, if you got a D in Calc II - what did you get the second time around. And one grade isn't going to kill you (I got a C in Calc I, and failed a remedial Biology course - still killed it app season). However, I also got A's in every other course a graduate committee would care about.

    Mediocre grades in the ENTIRE sequence is not going to do you any favors I'm afraid. I would go so far as to suggest petitioning to retake the courses - or, taking your advanced math (intro to proof writing, upper division linear algebra and real analysis) and blowing those out of the water. I will say though, its still going to look a bit rough that you weren't able to conquer the Calculus series.
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