anonuser109

Any dress code for these recruitment events? Am I going to feel uncomfortable in jeans?

Nativenyer - would love to contact you to ask a few more questions. Do you have the "contact" function turned off? It doesn't seem to be letting me message you.

try here: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thr ... forum_id=1

nativenyer - can you tell me anything more about your app? I also applied to NYU and havn't heard back - I'm assuming it's a rejection. You'll see my stats above - any thoughts as to how I might have stacked up...or not stacked up?

This is sort of ridiculous since I should really be out celebrating and not second-guessing everything etc., but here it goes. Suddenly I am left wondering whether I should have aimed a little higher with regard to where I was applying. I graduated from a top 25 research university for undergrad, magna cum laude etc. Had around a 1300 on the GREs, no amazing LORs, no publications etc. The PhD programs I applied to were mostly around the 30 mark in the rankings. I am excited about these programs but am wondering if, given the difficulty of job placement etc. (we all know the pitfalls of academia, despite the fact that it would be nice if rankings didn't matter), I might have tried for some of the higher-ranked programs. At what point does this no longer really mean anything? In other words, I'm not talking about Princeton and Stanford here. Does the difference between, say, OSU and Rutgers really matter? Thank you all for your responses.

Or do you think it's still mostly about culling down the list significantly? Thanks for your thoughts.

anyone else apply to the graduate center at cuny? any idea how common getting funded there is?

picklejar - have you been able to ascertain what impact this might have? my other scores are all significantly higher... but here's what i'm worried about: some grad student tasked with weeding out the "definite no's" are just told to get rid of anyone with a score under 50% (percentile). any thoughts?

what if

Any idea how this fits into the "weeding out"?

Any idea how this fits into the "weeding" out?