Advice on where to go

[kaz]

Hi! I would like some advice on where to apply to, for applied maths...

My stats:

International Student

Undergraduate University: one for the group of eight universities in Australia

Average for 1st year subjects: 83.25%

Average for 2nd year subjects 84.7%

Average for 3rd year subjects: 93%

Average for Hons year: 89% (first class hons)

(Discounting the non maths subjects, my average is roughly 89% for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate.)

Prizes/scholarships: got 1 or 2 at uni, some Maths Olympiad stuff at high school

Research: Did summer vacation research, no papers publish (yet), currently doing some research with a prof

GRE : no scores yet, but I'm assuming average to good scores as long as I prepare enough

The only places I thought of wanting to apply for are Phd programs at NYU and Northwestern. One of my lecturers told me to apply for Princeton/ Stanford, another prof(judging from my scores but has never taught me) thinks those are out of my league. My supervisor thinks because I don't have perfect scores from first/second year, its hard to get into top top universities.

Would appreciate any advice from anyone =)

Edited July 18, 2010 by kaz

[anthropologygeek]

Hi! I would like some advice on where to apply to, for applied maths...

My stats:

International Student

Undergraduate University: one for the group of eight universities in Australia

Average for 1st year subjects: 83.25%

Average for 2nd year subjects 84.7%

Average for 3rd year subjects: 93%

Average for Hons year: 89% (first class hons)

(Discounting the non maths subjects, my average is roughly 89% for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate.)

Prizes/scholarships: got 1 or 2 at uni, some Maths Olympiad stuff at high school

Research: Did summer vacation research, no papers publish (yet), currently doing some research with a prof

GRE : no scores yet, but I'm assuming average to good scores as long as I prepare enough

The only places I thought of wanting to apply for are Phd programs at NYU and Northwestern. One of my lecturers told me to apply for Princeton/ Stanford, another prof(judging from my scores but has never taught me) thinks those are out of my league. My supervisor thinks because I don't have perfect scores from first/second year, its hard to get into top top universities.

Would appreciate any advice from anyone =)

[hubris]

Hi! I would like some advice on where to apply to, for applied maths...

My stats:

International Student

Undergraduate University: one for the group of eight universities in Australia

Average for 1st year subjects: 83.25%

Average for 2nd year subjects 84.7%

Average for 3rd year subjects: 93%

Average for Hons year: 89% (first class hons)

(Discounting the non maths subjects, my average is roughly 89% for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate.)

Prizes/scholarships: got 1 or 2 at uni, some Maths Olympiad stuff at high school

Research: Did summer vacation research, no papers publish (yet), currently doing some research with a prof

GRE : no scores yet, but I'm assuming average to good scores as long as I prepare enough

The only places I thought of wanting to apply for are Phd programs at NYU and Northwestern. One of my lecturers told me to apply for Princeton/ Stanford, another prof(judging from my scores but has never taught me) thinks those are out of my league. My supervisor thinks because I don't have perfect scores from first/second year, its hard to get into top top universities.

Would appreciate any advice from anyone =)

When you say that you are thinking of only applying to two schools, does mean two schools total, or two schools in the US?

Also, now and likely for the next few years is going to be a not so great time to apply to graduate schools in the US. So, applying to 2-4 schools is opening yourself up to a lot of that "randomness".

That said NYU's program is excellent, NW's is very good. You might want to take a look at Cornell.

However, to a certain extent, we are the blind leading the blind.

[kaz]

I think I've sort of decided (for now) on Northwestern, NYU, Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, Maryland. I might be aiming too high though...but I figured i have to be happy to go into any of those schools, otherwise I will just stay where I am and do my phd here since I already am working with a prof that i work well with.