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Hi everyone!
I'm a senior majoring in physics, math, and music, and I'm currently in the process applying for theoretical and computational biophysics (primarily thru physics departments) Ph.D. programs. I have a 4.0 from a basically unknown school in the American South, two REUs (T50 and T25) in computational biophysics and two semesters of research in optics (one purely experimental, one comp/exp) at my home institution (since there aren't any biophysics profs at my school), but no publications. I should be getting one stellar letter and two pretty good ones from REU advisors.
All that said, I wanted to take the pGRE to give some credibility to my GPA, since I expect no one to know anything about my undergrad university. My university also doesn't offer EM2 or QM2, and I wanted to try to make up for that by showing I know my stuff. Score report dropped yesterday, and I got an 860 which was 72nd percentile for this exam. Subject breakdown was 87% right on classical, 69% on EM, and 88% on QM (surprising me since I've taken and got an A in EM, but am currently taking QM, oh well).
So I think my score accomplishes what I want it to do, but its right on the borderline where it could be a boon at some schools and a bane at others. I'm going to talk to my professors about it, but I'd like to get opinions here too. Is it worth submitting? Or will my profile look weaker than without it? Thank you everyone!!
I'm a senior majoring in physics, math, and music, and I'm currently in the process applying for theoretical and computational biophysics (primarily thru physics departments) Ph.D. programs. I have a 4.0 from a basically unknown school in the American South, two REUs (T50 and T25) in computational biophysics and two semesters of research in optics (one purely experimental, one comp/exp) at my home institution (since there aren't any biophysics profs at my school), but no publications. I should be getting one stellar letter and two pretty good ones from REU advisors.
All that said, I wanted to take the pGRE to give some credibility to my GPA, since I expect no one to know anything about my undergrad university. My university also doesn't offer EM2 or QM2, and I wanted to try to make up for that by showing I know my stuff. Score report dropped yesterday, and I got an 860 which was 72nd percentile for this exam. Subject breakdown was 87% right on classical, 69% on EM, and 88% on QM (surprising me since I've taken and got an A in EM, but am currently taking QM, oh well).
So I think my score accomplishes what I want it to do, but its right on the borderline where it could be a boon at some schools and a bane at others. I'm going to talk to my professors about it, but I'd like to get opinions here too. Is it worth submitting? Or will my profile look weaker than without it? Thank you everyone!!