Hi all,
I just got my pgre score for Oct test. It was a depressive time when I saw 32 percent. Now, instead of crying for that poor score, I think I should spend my time in considering for the future. I need some recommendation about physics graduate schools that not strictly focusing on pgre score. Following are my information about application:
Undergraduate school: small state university, no reputation in physics but have almost all physics courses, including CM, EM, QM, Thermo.
Majors: Physics and Philosophy
major gpa: 3.41
overall gpa: 3.33
pgre: 620 (32 percent)
general gre: 158 (V), 163 (Q), 3.5 (W)
Research Experience: 3 years in computational condensed matter, one first-order publication just submitted.
Honor Degree in physics, my honor thesis and the publication are related to the same project
Other: 1 year lab TA,
Membership in Sigma Pi Sigma and Pi Mu Epsilon (math honor society)
My previous list of applications:
Cornell
Colombia (I know they are impossible now, just for a try)
Stony Brook
Penn State
Pissburg
Rutgers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Temple University
Is there any school above (except cornell and colombia) especially care the grades and scores? I need to withdraw my applications if the schools consider scores in priority.
And is there any school with US News ranking 30-100 (roughly) accept poor pgre score?
Waiting for suggestions...
Thanks!
Schools that care less about pgre score
Re: Schools that care less about pgre score
Columbia does care for the score. But you will apply just for a try, okay then.
Did you consider applying outside US?
pGRE is not required in good universities in Europe. So you should have better chance there.
Did you consider applying outside US?
pGRE is not required in good universities in Europe. So you should have better chance there.
Re: Schools that care less about pgre score
Hello, there was a thread posted her recently that said UC Irvine is no longer using the PGRE in their decision making, so I think it would be worth it to apply there. In general, I also know that astronomy/astrophysics programs care less than other fields. Not saying they don't look at it, but it is weighed less! Hope this helps!
Re: Schools that care less about pgre score
Hi,Nishikata wrote:Columbia does care for the score. But you will apply just for a try, okay then.
Did you consider applying outside US?
pGRE is not required in good universities in Europe. So you should have better chance there.
Due to some private reason, I cannot leave US for phd study, I know both Europe and Canada have very good physics project.
Re: Schools that care less about pgre score
Thank you very much! That helps!AHipp wrote:Hello, there was a thread posted her recently that said UC Irvine is no longer using the PGRE in their decision making, so I think it would be worth it to apply there. In general, I also know that astronomy/astrophysics programs care less than other fields. Not saying they don't look at it, but it is weighed less! Hope this helps!