cekelly

I know for undergrad you can easily see tge average GPA and SAT score for practically any college, but is there a way to do that for graduate school admissions? Im mostly looking at UCs for right now.

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RacinReaver

It all varies from department to department. Admission is a lot more than just your GRE score and GPA. Research experience, letters of recommendation, and how well your research interests would fit in generally mean tons more to a committee than the two you're asking about.

cekelly

Should I already be aware of what my rrsearch interests are in my junior year of highschool? Ive already started planning for GRE, (helped a lot with SAT) but haven't really done any research yet 0_o?! To me practically everything sounds interesting but I am definitely more interested in the broad field of mathematical analysis (calculus , complex analysis, differential geometry, etc.) than probability and statistics (which I still like, but not as much)

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zotzotzot13

Relax, you are still in high school, you don't need to worry about that quite yet. You will have time to take advanced courses in college on those topics you mentioned and see if you are still interested in them then. You could end up in a totally different field, it is ok to change your mind once you enter college.

RacinReaver

I'd also say you're about four years too early to even be worrying about where you want to go for grad school. Big name schools aren't necessarily the best. You also don't have to worry about tuition, since if you're pursuing a PhD it should be fully funded (along with a stipend to live on).

cekelly

Yeah, I just want to keep my options open for the big name schools.

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