<p>… the SAT also doesn’t behave as tedjj seems to think. Your SAT score report ALSO contains all your scores.</p>
<p>oh I’m sorry - what I meant is that colleges looked at only top scores in SAT:) How about GRE? Is it good to take it few times (i.e. take it early with a chance of doing bad)?</p>
<p>No - try to take it as few times as possible. Some grad programs only look at top scores, but many look at them all. Plus, it looks bad if you take it several times to get a good score. Most people only take it once or twice.</p>
<p>hi people i want to join a graduate program in aerospace engineering i am presently doing my b.tech in electrical and electronics in INDIA.can u guys help me for finding best colleges in USA.we dont hav a system of GPA in our colleges can u tell me leaving GRE and TOEFL what does the grad schools expecting from its graduate applicants.i have a good academic background and i made many projects do you think i can get into MIT?(it is my dream goal to get into it)</p>
<p>I appreciate the general advice being consolidated into one thread…it would be better if those with specific personal questions would start their own threads.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about acceptance to PA programs? The best and worst PA programs?</p>
<p>Hi Im’ new and will ask your forgivness if this has been ask before. People seem to be very knowledge able on here and I was wondering if I might get someones opinion. I will give a very short background and then ask a question. I graduated 8 years ago with 2 bachelors degrees, general science and sociology. I went into teaching for a few years and really don’t EVER want to work with K-12 grades again. The reason i went into teaching was because I have a love for science, but use to have serious problems with my ability to concentrate. I repeatedly got tested for diabetes and ADD/ADHD, but do not have those conditions. Fast forward to 2 years ago and I get diagnosed with a pre-diabetic condition (all the time i was getting tested for diabetes not one of the doctors and all their medical training though, humm well you don’t have diabetes, but lets see if it could be something related) and now realise that all my problems concentrating and subsequent comprehension was due to this condition. I have been refocusing my efforts on pursuing my original goal of earning a phd in the field of Biology and am having some problems.</p>
<p>1) How would people recommend I explain this problem to prospective schools, or should I not even mention it? ( I have taken additional classes where I maintained a 3.3+ in about 20 semester credits, including taking a summer program at Columbia University
2) Since I have been out of school for so long and I have not kepts in touch with any teaching what might I do when a school asks that my letter of recommendations be from former professors?</p>
<p>I have volunteered in 2 different labs here and have recs from the supervisors at those labs, but I am feeling paniced. I keep getting told to not worry about things, but the lab supervisors (who are writting the recs) have never seen my grades and I kinda of thing they are just being nice to me. It would be nice to hear some advice and want to thank people in advance.
Couggirl</p>
<p>Interesting. I hadn’t before heard the link between diabetes (or metabolic syndrome) and concentration.</p>
<p>I would show the lab supervisors the grades and see what they say then. They are not likely to lie to you just to be nice – they will have a good idea of the sort of resume it takes to get into the PhD programs to which you are applying.</p>
<p>Your letters of recommendation do not need to be from former professors. Two of the three letters will, I assume, be written by the PIs of the labs with which you volunteered. This leaves one letter to be written, which could perhaps be written by one of the professors who taught you in the summer program or in the additional credits you’ve taken since you graduated from college.</p>
<p>I would not mention the medical issue, personally, but it’s up to you.</p>
<p>the insuline is too high and blood sugar does not “go” where it is suppose to go, this effects a number of things including how the brain works, as in the brain needs blood sugar to work properly and if it is not getting what it needs then the brain doesn’t work.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have tried talking to my supervisors asking them to look over my grades (both and seen my resume and like it) but when I ask I just get the, oh you will be fine answer. They might be right, but it might just be my personality, but I like concrete answers and that is not even close. I have 3 letters, but I am just worry about the few that say it has to be from proffs, maybe I am just overreacting cause I did get into a school!!! yeah.</p>
<p>I sympathize with wanting concrete answers – I wish these processes were more predictable too!</p>
<p>Generally an LOR from a professor who doesn’t know you too well (or is from a long time ago) can be accompanied by a resume, an interview (over phone if necessary), and your personal statement and statement of purpose to help give them a fuller picture of who you are.</p>
<p>I’m very curious to hear more about your medical condition, if you’re willing to share – either openly or via private message. It sounds almost as if you’re describing an “insulinoma,” a very rare tumor of the pancreas. Persistent hypoglycemia would certainly cause neurological symptoms, although nobody would mistake it for diabetes. (An insulinoma is sort of the opposite of diabetes.)</p>
<p>hello, everyone. I am a new one here .thanks~~</p>
<p>Hey!!! I am bewildered and confused. Is this an acceptance letter…???</p>
<p>“Congratulations! After a careful review of your application, the Admissios Committee of the Graduate Program in Communication has recommended to the graduate division that you be admitted to the program for fall 2008. We are forwarding this recommendation for admissiondation for admission to graduate admission, with whom the final decision rests. You will recieve e-mail confirmation of your admission from graduate admissions soon.”"</p>
<p>Enlighten me!! Is t possible that Graduate admission will deny Department’s recommendation???</p>
<p>Yes, this is an acceptance letter. The Graduate Admission folks simply rubber-stamp it. </p>
<p>It is NOT possible that Graduate Admission will deny, UNLESS…
- you lied on your application
- you omitted something crucial on your application
- you fail to finish your current program (if you are in one)
- the Dean of the Graduate School cuts all funding to the department for this upcoming academic year (practically impossible - j/k)</p>
<p>Hello friendly people!</p>
<p>Do you know whether Caltech has interviews of people who applied to their grad school Biology program? I applied and all they have said to me so far is that I will be notified of the decision by mid-april but no other communication while other schools have been actively emailing about interviews or other such things. The only places that did not do so were the ones who sent rejection letters after like 2 months of complete silence. Should I expect this is the same for Caltech or (hoping) do they not have interviews at all (I know there <em>are</em> some good places that don’t in fact.)…hehe :)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!
Ana</p>
<p>How about this. Can I masters in my MINOR and then switch to Ph.D in my Major?..have anyone done this before? is it really a bad combo?</p>
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<p>I’m sure plenty of people have done this. The feasibility/advisability depends on the areas involved.</p>
<p>I can certainly think of cases where this would be a terrific idea.</p>
<p>Examples: </p>
<p>1) student is majoring in economics with a minor in statistics, gets a masters in statistics and a PhD in economics; </p>
<p>2) student is majoring in comparative literature with a minor in German (or some other language), gets a masters in the language and then a PhD in comparative literature.</p>
<p>3) student is majoring in physics with minor in math, gets masters in math, then PhD in physics</p>
<p>Some people have taken even more meandering paths. The chair of Harvard’s economics department, James Stock, was a physics major at Yale, got a masters in statistics at Berkeley, then a PhD in economics at Berkeley, then became a professor of public policy at Harvard, and is now an economics professor at Harvard.</p>
<p>Eric Lander is a Professor of Biology at MIT and director of the Whitehead Institute, but he started out with a doctorate in pure math from Oxford, then taught economics at Harvard Business School, then took up genetics.
[Eric</a> Lander biography](<a href=“http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd021050.html]Eric”>http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd021050.html)</p>
<p>anybody recommend taking some non-matriculated courses at the school which I’m interested in applying? I currently plan to take a year off to work entry level before I apply for grad school and give myself enough time to prepare for the GRE.</p>
<p>I also have a question regarding recommendations. Should I ask my professors for recs now even though I plan to apply for Fall 09 admissions? I know my school use interfolio.com system to store recs ready to send out to schools…but does grad school generally expect recs as recent as the time of the application was submitted to them or it could be dated a year back?</p>
<p>I would say wait until Fall of '08, when you really start applying. But do ask for them at the beginning of the semester, since EVERYONE needs recs at the end.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>