I know there are schools that have career offices that help students land internships, and alumni networks can be valuable in that regard, but I'm not sure that the career offices even at the most heavily resourced private colleges are engaged in providing assistance at the level you seem to be...
A) Nobody cares about QS rankings
B) Even if they did, QS is not a ranking of undergraduate program quality
C) What you do in undergrad is far more important than where you go when it comes to graduate admissions
D) Pick the school that you would be happiest to attend beyond the program or their...
If you manage to end with a 3.85 GPA I would be less concerned with your GPA and more concerned with the rest of the aspects in your application package.
I find it doubtful that PhD programs or employers are going to be overly concerned that it took you an extra year to complete your bachelor's degree. You've already been admitted to a master's so it obviously wasn't a concern for them. Many students fumble during undergrad for a variety of...
OP if you'll be needing to pay full freight (or at least close to it) for your degree, I suspect that the US and Canada will not be viable financial options. International tuition will be very high. I normally would suggest Germany but while graduate degrees are offered in English it's less...
A faster way would be to find some common ground between the degrees you have and a Physics PhD and apply directly to that field. That would potentially mean that you would have to change your focus away from Quantum Mechanics/High Energy Theory. You might want to consider if there are fields...
If I understand correctly, you have spent
4 years BSc in Chemistry
2 years MSc in Quantum & Computational Chemistry
and now you want to spend
3 years BSc in Physics
6+ years PhD in Physics
Is this correct? Are you absolutely sure this is what you want to do?
You don't list what your current educational background is or you employment history. It's hard to know how realistic your goals are without knowing that to begin with.
As I'm sure you know that while admission to top programs is certainly predicated on having a strong academic and research profile it's not exclusively so. Just as important is fit with institutional and departmental needs. Whether your profile will be good enough is hard to judge. Many top...
I have to echo what @CrysPhys has said. Why do you want to get a PhD? When someone asks about the ability to get a PhD, any PhD, regardless of field, I have to question their motivation for doing so and if they really understand what a PhD is. It's a research degree designed to produce...
It's a strategy of variable effectiveness but the results are not 0. In any case however you misunderstood me. My response was not a suggestion for the OP to get another master's degree. My follow up was
My intent was to encourage the OP to consider if pursuing a PhD is actually a realistic...
Students wishing to pursue a PhD who did not do well in their undergraduate studies will often complete a master's first to show that they are capable of performing better academically. You did not demonstrate this. Why do you think you were not able to improve your grades in your master's and...