I realize the admissions department is the best place to ask, and of course I will consult them on the issue, however I'm at work with nothing to do except browse forums so I figured I'd throw the question out there.
Substantially worse? That's pretty harsh, although I guess I'll take your...
Maybe this is a no brainer but I figured I'd ask...
I've heard both sides from many different people...some say universities encourage undergrad students to apply elsewhere for grad school, thus if you are going to say, UC Berkeley like me and apply there for grad school as well, it will be...
Where do you see Particle Physics/CERN heading in the next 50-100 years?
What will come after the LHC? What research will come after the completion of the ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, and LHCb experiments?
How will the discovery of the Higgs Boson impact research in other areas of physics, both...
Yeah...perhaps I'm making too big a deal of this...I mean the age differences amongst grad school students is much larger than undergrads so I'm sure no one would be too alarmed to see someone of that age anyway. I guess I just need to cheer up.
Unfortunatly I discovered my passion for physics well into studying for my bachelors degree in philosophy, and now I'm in a position where by the time I'm done taking all of the lower division physics courses required to re-enter my school (UC Berkeley) as a physics major, I will be almost 25...