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Hey all, Any suggestions on a good (graduate level) quantum gravity book? I'm quite accustomed with GR (Carroll, Schutz, Wald, Baez all beaten to death!) and am hoping to start acquainting myself with this field as it is what I will be researching. Best TS

So does building a relationship with professors whose research you are interested in, at schools that you'd like to attend (presumably because you are interested in their research...kind of circular, eh?) help your chance of admission at that school? And what about campus visits and meeting with...

Understood. I'm a junior, so I'd be doing that over this coming summer. I figure that's close enough to have a handle on some of the schools I'll be applying to.

As I've mentioned, I don't pretend to have a particularly high GPA. I am confident that through interviews and standardized tests my ability level will come out, especially because personal issues caused my grades to dip into the B range for just one semester. Again, I am more interested...

Sure: I love the cosmology/gravitation (especially theoretical work) at Stanford, Caltech, Harvard and MIT and the elementary particle work (and ties to cosmology stuff) at UC Berkeley, Princeton, and UChicago. More specifically even: Stanford--the research by Roger Blandford, Peter Graham, Risa...

Good evening! I'm currently a junior at a top 10 US university. I'll walk away next year with a BS in physics and probably with some type of honor due to GPA/honors thesis. I'm sure like half the posters on here, I have deluded dreams of attending certain grad schools. I don't prescribe to...