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Maximizing Grad School Opportunities for Astrophysics After Military Service
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[QUOTE="Dr. Courtney, post: 6010389, member: 117790"] For grad school in physics, focus on your math and physics courses and GPA. Double majors are rarely worth the hit in terms of lower GPA and also reduced time for research. Masters degrees vary with respect to retaining core physics knowledge. If in the process you end up taking graduate level classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and statistical mechanics at a PhD granting institution, then you should be duly refreshed in a lot of physics. The same courses from a MS only granting school (no PhDs) would be much less valuable, since many of these schools gift lots of grades with little learning. Are you actually at the Naval Academy? (I taught at USAFA, and my wife taught at West Point.) Humanities majors in engineering courses sound like a military academy? Coursework at the military academies is usually viewed more highly by grad schools than the same coursework at many ROTC schools. If you are going to Navy, contact me by PM and I'll share my email address. I mentored more published undergraduate research at USAFA in my four years there than any other faculty member. I'm a consultant now, but I still mentor a number of student projects for students who cannot find research opportunities at their home institutions. If the research doors open too slowly for you at Navy, we might find something you can collaborate on from a distance or perhaps even visit our lab in Louisiana if time permits. [/QUOTE]
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