Recent content by pm1010

Actually, I was at Cornell initially. I transferred to a community college because of financial reasons. I have no idea what is going on with those classes--for combinatorics I typically have the highest grade (but the class is only 5 people), but the grades I get are still rather low--they...

I've been told by several math grad students that anything less than an A- in a graduate course is a bad grade. I've seen this on forums such as collegeconfidential.com as well. Their reasoning was that graduate classes have very, very few people getting below a B-. Is this a myth?

frosty7, I talked to the chair of the physics department (at that time I wanted to major in physics and minor in math) the semester before applying. I visited the school a few times and went to a departmental meeting and talked to other professors in the department.

Try going to a smaller, less known school that is easier to get into and then transfer out. I also had a poor GPA in high school which was not much higher than yours; I also got a few Ds on my transcript (three of them were in math!) I spent three semesters at a community college instead of...

Thank you, everyone, for your responses :). deluks917, based on my professor grading system, I would have gotten an A- or B+, if I had not committed the mistakes that I mentioned here. But, I didn't :(. There were many students in my class who scored in the A through B- range. This makes me...

I am currently a junior at an ivy league school. I began college as a pre-med/molecular biology major. I fell in love with math and felt that I should be a math major; I really enjoy all of my classes and am having a lot of fun learning. My grades, however, are not so good. I seem to have a...