Undergrad Institution: T20 North American School in Astronomy
Major(s): Physics, Math and Astronomy
Overall GPA: 3.94
Length of Degree: 4 years
Type of Student: International
GRE: Have not taken
Research Experience: Two years working on statistics in astronomy, resulted in a first-author publication in ApJ. Paid summer fellowship to do research in cosmic reinization, resulted in a n-th author publication under review at ApJ. Half a year working on FRBs. Physics thesis in AGN accretion disks. Astronomy thesis on galaxy clusters, two first-author publications are in prep for this.
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Departmental awards and some university-wide awards.
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Taken a couple of graduate physics courses and planning to take a few graduate math courses.
Applying to Where: MIT,, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, University of Toronto, UWaterloo, McGill, University of Florida, UT-Austin, UCSB.
References: An advisor who's known me for more than 3 years (most of my work was done in his group). My physics thesis advisor is the second one. The last one is a prof who taught one of my astronomy courses.
Questions:
1. I know there's no such thing as 'safeties' for PhD applications but I'm kinda concerned if my list is far too ambitious at the moment. I have to note that the active research in my particular field of interest is specifically carried out at these institutions though.
Thanks!
