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Dishsoap
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Hey there, I'm a junior in undergrad and I'll be applying to grad school next fall. I have a 4.0 and very good letters of recommendation, but other than a sub-par GRE score, my main dilemma is research experience. Here is the research experience I have:
3 years, 3 papers in AMO/QFT (pair creation, will be 4 years/4 papers by the time I graduate)
1 internship in particle astrophysics
1 internship in computational biophysics
I really enjoy doing research in AMO, however if I went to grad school it would be for theory, which is highly competitive. I also am a Goldwater Scholar, which means that I need to pay back the scholarship if I don't go to graduate school, so I just need to get in somewhere.
Will it hurt me that I didn't just focus on ONE thing during undergrad? Should I consider switching research groups my senior year to biophysics or something?
3 years, 3 papers in AMO/QFT (pair creation, will be 4 years/4 papers by the time I graduate)
1 internship in particle astrophysics
1 internship in computational biophysics
I really enjoy doing research in AMO, however if I went to grad school it would be for theory, which is highly competitive. I also am a Goldwater Scholar, which means that I need to pay back the scholarship if I don't go to graduate school, so I just need to get in somewhere.
Will it hurt me that I didn't just focus on ONE thing during undergrad? Should I consider switching research groups my senior year to biophysics or something?