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kuahji
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I had multiple reasons why I missed the November PGRE, I believed those reasons were legitimate. Now however I'm worried that I'll have to take a year off for graduate school. I applied to 9 places, so far I only heard back from one place & it was a rejection. But no interviews or anything of that nature. I had a 3.8 GPA, 4.0 in physics but from a small school. 1 Summer of research (no paper "yet" but we're finishing it soon), 2 years paid tutoring at college, & some higher level math courses (ring/group theory, combinatorics, calc. based stats... that sort of thing, no PDE though b/c it was cover in my Mathematical Physics class, though I think it might look bad not having it on my transcript). Regular GRE I did "okay," 500 verbal, 730 quantitative.
Anyway, my question is, even if the PGRE is "required" am I completely out of the running, or just very unlikely? I guess my biggest question is, what am I going to do for a whole year off? Are internships the best bet? Also do graduate schools "always" interview first? I'm older (27), so this is why taking a year off isn't very appealing to me.
Oh and to be honest these are the places I applied,
Lehigh, Florida State, University of Florida, Pittsburgh, Indiana, N.M. Tech., Ohio State, York Canada (rejected), Florida Tech.
Anyway, my question is, even if the PGRE is "required" am I completely out of the running, or just very unlikely? I guess my biggest question is, what am I going to do for a whole year off? Are internships the best bet? Also do graduate schools "always" interview first? I'm older (27), so this is why taking a year off isn't very appealing to me.
Oh and to be honest these are the places I applied,
Lehigh, Florida State, University of Florida, Pittsburgh, Indiana, N.M. Tech., Ohio State, York Canada (rejected), Florida Tech.
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