PhD pure math fall 2017

>>8496633
I'm and undergrad as well. Only got 60th percentile. I asked the head of admissions at my school and he said what schools value depends completely on the school. He said he personally thinks the test is worthless and doesn't consider it (my uni is top 30).

>>8496633
Yeah, the average at Princeton is 800 on that test. I don't think they care too much. Research is more important

>>8496633

Ask /r/math.
But I would not hold my breath.

But larger departments like Berkeley always admit students with less than ideal applications.

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>>8496927
Don't worry buddy. It was a horrible test. I skipped like 6-10 questions, since I ran out of the time because of some of the computations - I spent literally 10 minutes on some multivariable integral and my answer turned out to be none of the 5 proposed ones. I doubt if there were even any tricks involved - just straight changes of variables for a few times. Either you won't make a mistake during all the computations or die. Fortunately for me there was a plenty of algebra questions that were like 5-seconders. 67 questions for 3hours, that is a ridiculous way of testing students' abilities to do well in a grad school in such a field like mathematics, where you are spending months on thinking how to make a single step in a proof.

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