please help me select schools. good gre rest mediocre

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HwaS
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please help me select schools. good gre rest mediocre

Post by HwaS » Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:15 am

hi
i'm an international student from South Korea.
An obscure university among my country's universities
GPA not 4.0 scale.(it's 4.5scale) like 3/4 of all classes are A and A+'s and 1/4 B+'s(got some scholarships in a couple of semesters due to gpa)
GRE General V155 Q165 A3.0(may take it again soon due to low writing score)
PGRE 990
TOEFL recently taken. i'm weak at speaking.
Research Experience: Non except a senior thesis.
Interested in high energy physics theory. I like mathematical aspect of physics. No serious research about that. read some grad school books. and some attempt to read some journal articles.

-Reach
Duke
Rutgers
-Maybe
Carnegie
University of Florida
Boston University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Florida
Texas a&m university
University of Rochester
University of Pittsburgh
-Safety
don't know. may pick one or two school around 70~100 rank in usnews.com

What do you guys think? Please give me some suggestions. let me know if i'm out of touch with the reality.

bfollinprm
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Re: please help me select schools. good gre rest mediocre

Post by bfollinprm » Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:43 am

You could recalibrate a bit upwards, I think. I wouldn't apply to public schools in the top 10, but the private ones I would. And more schools of all types in the 15-40 range.

Catria
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Re: please help me select schools. good gre rest mediocre

Post by Catria » Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:12 pm

You have the low end of your list covered.

Might want to consider Yale, Johns Hopkins...



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