Kinda is different, since I'm female myself and people are preaching it to me, so maybe not sexist, maybe trying to understand why people always say it to me. Hm maybe everyone else has forced sexism upon me.
Well if you go on the physics gre forums, where everyone posts where they get in it seems to be people talk about it more there, also if you go through and read the profiles to who people are and where they get accepted, it seems a female with a 3.6 gpa and 780 pgre can get into all the places a...
Now this is going to sound sexist, I guess cause it is. Anyone else notice that women get accepted into grad school programs with less impressive credentials? Is it just me? I understand needing to boost statistics and making it an even playing field because this field is more a male field...
Personally I love Carroll and ostlie, if you want a general astro book use The Cosmic Perspective, not sure who it is by but we use it for our astro 101 class and it covers basically everything in science/physics terms but still closer to basic but more in depth than popular science articles.
Yea, some days will be less some days will be more, I think most of my eng. friends spend more time in class then that but less time doing homework. Heres the thing, I know some people who are done with homework by 10 every night and can still get decent grades but the thing is they don't truly...
I find it hard to believe that grad schools would be ignorant to the fact that people who poses good leadership skills tend to be highly motivated individuals- doesn't that make them more qualified?
Obviously I have not had the experience I do find it odd though that it plays no importance, if...
Actually I'm graduating in 4 years along with everyone else, along with a math minor. I just work my butt off. Actually here is the deal I use to live in Japan and realistically being multi-lingual especially in this type of global economy and research is always a good thing. I have requirements...
K I love this. This is how I feel it should be, its just the idea I get from other people on here is that its all about publications and GPA. I personally have a pretty good GPA but amazing leadership experiences (I'm on a counsel that advises congress on health legislation, along with 2 club...
Well after reading tons of posts and talking to my friends who are headed off to grad school here is what everyone says:
PGRE is really important, GPA is really important, publications really important, leadership roles really important, multiple years of research experience really important...
Electromagnetism
Quantum Mechanics 1
Religions of China and Japan
Japanese Lang-3rd semester
History of Eastern Asia
-I'm a double major (astrophysics and east asian studies) last semester was basically all physics so I had to throw a few more asian studies courses in :)
By Activities I meant I sit on national councils that advice congressmen on health legislation, I feel like that counts for something. I mean obviously I could be wrong, and yes I do have physics related stuff as well. No publications as of yet.
I've started to look at graduate schools and I am really interested in doing solar physics, although I am very interested in more general astrophysics as well.
Of course we all want to go to a great school but I want to be realistic about where I can get in ect. Location is a big deal to me as...