If the university that accepted me late had accepted me before April 15, it probably would have been my choice. This depends mainly on if I could have joined a particular group there. At this point I think I will stay with the other university.
Thank you for the replies. At the university I accepted, I talked to the professor I'm hopefully going to do research with, though he didn't put together a PhD plan. I would go into the same field at either university. Both universities support the April 15 resolution, so it looks like that...
A little while ago I was accepted into a PhD program with a TA position starting in the fall, and I accepted the offer. Then, sometime after the usual April 14 deadline, another university also accepted me. Although I probably won't switch universities, there are pros to going to the latter...
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I'm planning on doing computational physics. Iv'e applied for programs for this fall and had one acceptance so far.
I have two more questions:
Do you think it's too late to apply to anymore Ph.D. programs for this fall? The deadlines have all passed but I...
Hello. I’m in the US and I’m going to have to decide if and/or where I want to work on a Ph.D. in physics. I have some questions about the length of time it takes to get a one and I also want to get a better sense of what requirements need to be met. It’s clear and straightforward to me that...
The information I can hopefully give them soon is I would have completed half the courses required for a master's in one semester, and hope to finish the next half next semester. I completed half the upper level course requirements last semester, and my universality's M.S./B.S. program let's me...
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I forgot to say I was in the US. The problem with waiting until next year to apply is that I hope to be done with my M.S. and B.S. before next fall. Reading some universities' websites, it looks like for many the physics GRE is recommended but not required. The...
Hi all. I'm currently working on both an M.S. and B.S. in physics and hope to finish with both during the upcoming summer. I wanted to apply to a Ph.D. program for next fall at a different university, partly because the research here isn't quite what I'm interested in, which is computational...
Thanks for the replies. I have talked some to faculty and my academic adviser. My adviser clearly thought what I signed up for was ambitious and his comment was "it's your life". Like I said, I expect to withdraw from some of the classes, and the replies here will make me lean more towards...
I signed up for qm 1, e&m 1, classical mechanics, solid state 1, and information physics, along with partial differential eqs. My plan is to check them out and see what if any I should drop. The first week I can drop with a full refund and the second week I can drop with 30% refund and no w grade.
Thanks for the replies. I've signed up for five but it looks like that will probably be too much. My plan though was to try them out and then withdraw from some if necessary. I hope that won't look bad.
I'm going to be taking graduate physics courses this semester and I need to decide how many to take. My question is how does the difficulty and work load of graduate physics courses generally compare to upper level undergraduate physics courses. I know there is variation between courses and...
Thanks for the replies. Yes I'm in the U.S. My professor also called an MS a consolidation prize. It's looking more and more like I committed myself to a Ph.D. when I switched my major to physics.
I'm planning on working towards a physics masters degree. I figured afterwards I would have the option of either working towards a Ph.D. or entering the workforce, and didn't feel it was necessary to decide early.
I was getting academic advise from one of my professors today, and he said...