Hey everyone! I'm applying for graduate school for Mathematics and I have about a 3.3 GPA. I still have two years left of schooling. My GPA for Mathematics is currently 3.7.
Is there anyone here who got into graduate school with an undergraduate GPA of 3.0-3.3? Am I being unrealistic applying to schools like Stanford, MIT or UChicago? Just wondering if you know anyone or if you are someone that has been accepted to graduate with a low GPA or even low GRE score? Just for us people out there that are applying in similar situations.
You won't get into the top tier schools of your choice. Go to community college, fix your GPA and then transfer. If you can't get good grades you will never get into these schools unless you're black, and even then you would have a hard time adjusting to a school above your IQ level.
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Professor (not in math) writing here
Though I'm not in math, things aren't all that different between departments. I can say that your math GPA will count more than your overall average, because we assume most people will have some required courses they didn't do all that well in, and discount them. Your math GPA looks high enough for you to be considered by top schools, but the real decider will be your references. Get letters from professors who can say more than "He was in my class and got an A". You want something more like "He worked on this special project and showed a real talent for original thinking in the area of non-Euclidian framistalsis"
Hey there math undergrad here. graduated with exactly a 3.00. Fucked my grades up lne semester when my parents told me they were divorcing during finals week. Why didn't they wait to tell me for a couple days? Don't know.
My advice is become a nihilist because life crushes you when you invest yourself into things.
I'm drunk
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How the fuck can your parents divorcing as an adult ruin your semester? Like jesus fuck they were staying together for your hoe ass and as soon as you were out of the nest they split. Probably the first time they were happy in like 10 years. God damn, you're like Andy from the office.