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Thanks for your response "Local variations apply depending on country" This is the most frustrating part when I'm considering EU schools but yes I gotta do a lot of research.

I thought they would focus on my undergrad GPA much more than my graduate school GPA I heard it a lot when I was considering the US schools and EU schools focus on the research experience. Well it's just a tendency but I feel insecure about my GPA so if my master's GPA helps, it means a lot to...

After a year of thought, I decided to adjust my ratio for applying the US/EU(+UK) schools. I mostly focused on the US schools before, but things are getting complex and I found out that Europe is also a good place to study. I found some institutes that have professors with similar interests...

Thanks, I'll modify the list. I found Kent U has a good program but others are not. Simliar schools or low-ranked schools don't have program similar to mine. What I realized is.. my school is not that bad than I thought.. We have 3 string professors with 15 grad students and post docs which the...

Thanks a lot, I just wanted to consider the holistic aspect of admission. But I agree that it's time to list the specific schools and start to study PGRE. This is a list of schools which are related to my research field (Holography) I sort them into some groups by possibilities. Donation MIT...

Thanks, Is it (non-trivialy) helpful if I attend to program like this in the US? https://www.slmath.org/summer-schools (which I can't but just for an example) One more question, What do you think about the importance of SOP?

Yes, exactly. But I think the research fields are strongly related. (Only few professors in the US are related including top~good schools.) They also deal with the field theory and the approaching methods are what I exactly did in my paper. Of course, physics does not express it rigorously in...

Does anyone know about the pure math field? Is it more desperate or better or just about the same compared to hepth? Some professors in math department have strongly related research fit to mine (the way to study Yang- Mills existence).

Thanks. Oh I mean the luck is needed for strong recommendation letters or publications. If I can't get a good score in PGRE, I think it is good for my future to find other fields haha

Thanks for the good information. I'm considering the UK for plan B which is hard to get a fund but I should try it at least for a conditional fund. I'm planning to travel around the EU in Feb and I think I should look around the atmosphere to decide whether I apply or not. It's hard to get a...

Thanks for good adivice. I think I need to consider about plan B. I know what the result will be If I fail to get a strong recommendation letter or make a strong publication. I can handle PGRE on my own but I think those need a bit of luck.

Thanks for the response. I found some groups doing similar research to mine. UMich, JHU, Austin, etc.. but they are too good schools for me haha Idk I have a chance to get in there. This is the extremely regretful moment of why I failed to manage my GPA.

Thanks again. I can get a letter from a professor at my uni who graduated from UCB and has a good rep. internationally. Chances are slim but I have a chance to collaborate with a professor at Princeton if I try hard.. I'll try to reach a strong professor by collaborative research who has a...

Thanks for your advice. I will apply in 2026 so there's still some time left to write more papers. Maybe it's a childish thought but I'm quite confident in the research field. All the 1st author papers (from undergraduate and MS in physics) come from my contribution of more than 80%. Still, I...

Thanks for your reply. I agree that I'm not a strong applicant but it can be viewed differently depending on the university I apply. I mean I might be bad for the superior universities but there are many PhD programs in the US. Still I don't have any chance to apply somewhere good university...