Changing to other school for math program.

[YD1988]

Hi. I just finished 3rd semester of PhD program in Math/Applied Math in a school ranked around 40 in USNEWS ranking.

I came from out of USA with Bachelor's degree to study in graduate school and was thinking about doing applied math when I came here. But I knew nothing about what applied math meant here, and now I lost interest in applied math. I'd like to change to more pure area, possibly algebra.

But problem is that, I haven't taken an algebra course yet in graduate school (But I'm thinking of taking 2 algebra courses next semester). I also haven't passed any qual yet. And I feel like many people here don't like me for some reason by now and it sounds ridiculous but I have reasons to suspect someone related to department have installed something like spy cam in the apartment that I'm living in now.(I'm living alone in an apartment)

Therefore, I would be pleased if I could change to different school. I think I'm creative and could be competitive if I could study what's interesting to me. I would like to become a professor. So, being an international student, I would appreciate if you share your opinion about if it would be possible for me to change to some other school in US. If I need to leave US, I'm thinking about applying to some graduate school in Japan also.

For my credentials, I have above 3.9/4 g.p.a undergraduate from unknown school and have 160/170/4.0 GRE, and math subject test score was something like 730 (The scores are about 2.5 years old now)

 

[svent]

You have good scores. Might as well retake the subject test to see if you can get close to 800, even if you don't have much time to study for it.

 

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