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Moved from Twin Cities for a month, and grad school worries
13 years ago
Hey y'all! Just thought I'd give y'all in the Twin Ctiies area a heads up and say that I am not going to be around for a month. I should be back in town towards the beginning of September.
It kind of sucks that I am not in the lab anymore, but I look forward to the upcoming final year of undergraduate. After that, I hope that I'm going to grad school! This application process is looking to be one big, expensive headache. I've got at least 10 universities in mind, and I may even apply to a couple more to help my admission chances. Each of them have a pretty hefty price tag as well for the application fees, ranging from $70-ish Canadian, to about $150 Canadian with a few other Canadian and US dollar amounts in between. At the moment I'm considering... at least 7 universities in Canada in mind and 4 in America. McGill, U of Toronto, UBC, U of Manitoba, U of Alberta, Carleton U and Queen's U are the Canadian places I have in mind, and Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara are the schools I have in mind in the States. I hope that by casting a wide net over the places I could go to in Canada I'll end up somewhere there, but if I have to be in the USA I'm going to purposefully choose the only state (California) with plentiful redeeming qualities to apply to grad schools in. I am applying only to places that I know have particle physics programs, in particular programs that look to answer some of the questions involving neutrinos or dark matter.
However, I have at least the first step done: taking that blasted general GRE. It's not required in any of the places in Canada that I have looked at, but a strong score never killed anyone. Plus, I needed a score to apply to the schools in the US anyways. Now I have to contact graduate admissions people and professors, line up my letters of recommendation, draft a statement of purpose for each university, update my CV, taking the Physics Subject GRE, and then finish up this senior year with a strong finish. Wish me luck y'all, but if anyone has advice that would be appreciated too.
It kind of sucks that I am not in the lab anymore, but I look forward to the upcoming final year of undergraduate. After that, I hope that I'm going to grad school! This application process is looking to be one big, expensive headache. I've got at least 10 universities in mind, and I may even apply to a couple more to help my admission chances. Each of them have a pretty hefty price tag as well for the application fees, ranging from $70-ish Canadian, to about $150 Canadian with a few other Canadian and US dollar amounts in between. At the moment I'm considering... at least 7 universities in Canada in mind and 4 in America. McGill, U of Toronto, UBC, U of Manitoba, U of Alberta, Carleton U and Queen's U are the Canadian places I have in mind, and Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara are the schools I have in mind in the States. I hope that by casting a wide net over the places I could go to in Canada I'll end up somewhere there, but if I have to be in the USA I'm going to purposefully choose the only state (California) with plentiful redeeming qualities to apply to grad schools in. I am applying only to places that I know have particle physics programs, in particular programs that look to answer some of the questions involving neutrinos or dark matter.
However, I have at least the first step done: taking that blasted general GRE. It's not required in any of the places in Canada that I have looked at, but a strong score never killed anyone. Plus, I needed a score to apply to the schools in the US anyways. Now I have to contact graduate admissions people and professors, line up my letters of recommendation, draft a statement of purpose for each university, update my CV, taking the Physics Subject GRE, and then finish up this senior year with a strong finish. Wish me luck y'all, but if anyone has advice that would be appreciated too.
SnickersTheCat
~snickersthecat
Good luck! You have much more lined up than I do at the moment.
