Need help, I don't know when to apply coz my current GPA

[Mr.Juicy]

Need help, I don't know when to apply coz my current GPA...

First, thank you for clicking this thread and trying to help me. I am going to apply grad school for a PhD, but my situation now is...

Let me explain. My current overall GPA is 3.24 (current Major GPA 3.67), thanks to those non-major courses (which gave me C!). Luckily, I still have one more year to study more courses so that I can finally discard all of my C-range courses, and end up with overall GPA 3.5+ (hopefully Major GPA by then will be 3.7+)

I went on for exchange a year ago, so I still have several physics courses to complete, including E&M and classical mechanics. So far I have taken only ~40 credit on physics, 20-30 more to go (and this is why I'm so confident that my overall GPA will be much better than now!).

So now I have 3 options.

Option 1
- Apply PG in US commencing on 2012Fall
Pros

• 
  Attending PhD in US on 2012Fall is my first priority

• Enrolling PhD in one stroke would (normally) save more time than Option 2, even though no one can guarantee that..

Cons

• Current GPA is not good enough to send me to relatively better grad school. (Stony Brook, GIT, Michigan, Colorado, UIUC, Maryland, UCSD, UCSB, U Penn, Columbia, etc.)

• I don't know if I can get 900+ in PGRE to compensate my low GPA, now I'm only confident with getting 800+ in PGRE. (coz by the time I take PGRE I'm still learning EM and Classical Mechanics...)

• If I am rejected by all or accepted with no ship/funding (living under porverty), then I might just donating USD$1000+ to those physics depts and ETS

Option 2
- Apply MPhil in my undergrad univ. commencing on 2012Fall, after I finish my MPhil, apply for PhD in US again
Pros

• I can keep studying on 2012Fall

Cons

• If i first finish a MPhil then do PhD in US, I need to spend more time to reach PhD level

• Psychologically feeling bad (don't know why)

Option 3
- Apply PG in US commencing on 2013Fall
Pros

• I will have more time to prepare PGRE to get higher score

• I can workntravel for one year in UK or Australia, gaining more experience!

• Or maybe i can be a technician in my undergrad univ!

• I am confident with my GPA upon graduate will be much better, at that time I will have more chance to enroll in a relatively better school

Cons

• I might spend one year for nothing if workntravel and technician reject me

• I afraid grad school reject me again coz I have done nothing related for one year, and at that time i have no advantage on applying even MPhil in my undergrad univ. That is, I will have no offer at all and have to work. (Yes, I admit I don't want to work in the society this early, I prefer working in the lab rather than working in a restaurant being just a waiter)

I still haven't decide which to choose, any suggestions or views? Thanks again!

 

[Mr.Juicy]

Help pleaseeee~~