2010 Math Phd Applicant Profiles and Admiission Results

Graduate School
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<p>I saw this on PhysicsGre.com, so I wanted to do one for math.</p>

<p>Undergrad Institution: (School or type of school, such as big state, lib arts, ivy, technical, foreign (what country?)... Overall Reputation in Physics?)
Major(s):
Minor(s):
GPA in Major:
Overall GPA:
Length of Degree: (Are you graduating after 3, 4, or 5 years?)
Position in Class: (No numbers needed, but are you top? near top? average? struggling?)
Type of Student: (Domestic/International, male/female, minority?)</p>

<p>GRE Scores:
Q:
V:
W:
M:</p>

<p>TOEFL Total: (if applicable, otherwise delete this)</p>

<p>Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...)</p>

<p>Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?)</p>

<p>Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...)</p>

<p>Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:</p>

<p>Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...)</p>

<p>Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:</p>

<p>Applying to Where: </p>

<p>I'll start off</p>

<p>Undergrad Institution: State University at Purchase College
Major(s): Mathematics and Computer Science
Minor(s):
GPA in Major: 4.33
Overall GPA: 4.2
Length of Degree: 4 years
Position in Class: I am the top student in my program.
Type of Student: Domestic, male, hispanic</p>

<p>GRE Scores:
Q: 800
V: 570
W:4.5
M: 870</p>

<p>Research Experience:
Publications
1. S.Karimi, A.Delgado, and M.Lewinter, Resonance Structure Counts in
Parallelogram-like Benzenoids with Holes. J.Math.Chem., 38 (2008) 913-916.
2. A.Delgado, M.Gargano, M.Lewinter and L.V.Quintas, Spanning-tree-center
vertices of a graph. Cong. Num. 189, (43-48) 2008.
3. A.Delgado, M.Gargano, M.Lewinter and J.Malerba, Introducing k-long numbers.
Cong. Num. 189, (15-23) 2008.
4. A.Delgado, D.Gagliardi, M.Gargano, M.Lewinter, W.Widulski, Even-Pancyclic
Subgraphs of Meshes. Cong. Num. 189, (49-56) 2008.
5. A.Delgado, D.Gagliardi, M.Gargano, M.Lewinter, W.Widulski, Subcubes of
Hypercubes. Cong. Num. 189, (25-32) 2008.
6. S.Karimi, A.Delgado, and M.Lewinter, A combinatorial/geometric analysis of
convex cyclofusene. J.Math.Chem., (2009) To appear.
7. A.Delgado, M.Lewinter and L.V.Quintas, k-long graphs. Cong. Num. To appear.
8. A.Delgado, M.Lewinter and L.V.Quintas, Color sets of tripartite graphs. Cong.
Num. To appear.
9. A.Delgado, Oblong graphs. Graph Theory Notes of NY. To appear.
Presentations
1. “Subcubes of the hypercube, Qn.” Mid-Hudson Mathematics Conference for
Undergraduates held at Bard College on October 20, 2007.
2. “On the properties of k-long numbers” Thirty-Ninth Southeastern International
Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing held at Florida
Atlantic University on March 6, 2008.
3. “Spanning-tree-center vertices of a graph.” Graph Theory Day 55, held at
Hartwick College on May 10, 2008
4. “Minimum Color Sets of Tripartite Graphs.” Graph Theory Day 56, held at
Central Connecticut State University on November 15, 2008.
5. “k-long graphs”Fortieth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics,
Graph Theory, and Computing held at Florida Atlantic University on March 3,
2009.
6. “Oblong graphs.” Graph Theory Day 57, held at Nassau Community College,
SUNY on May 16, 2009.</p>

<p>Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Best sophmore award in mathematics, best junior award in mathematics, Dean's List and Sigma Xi research society</p>

<p>Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Ta in Calculus I and II (taught at the board), TA for Calc III, Differential Equations, Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Graph Theory, and Number Theory, Tutor in Mathematics for 5 years.</p>

<p>Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:Consistent high scorer on math team in Bronx HS of Science (a top high school in NYC)</p>

<p>Special Bonus Points: One of my recommenders is Louis Quintas, a highly published graph theorist</p>

<p>Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:I was on the organizing committee of a graph theory confernece at my school.</p>

<p>Applying to Where: Due to health reasons I must be near Columbia Presbyterian hospital. So the schools I applied to are:
Columbia: rejected (emailed response 02/24/10)
NYU: waiting response
Cuny Grad center: waiting response</p>

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<p>I got into the nyu’s program [=</p>

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<p>Congratulations! That’s an impressive snapshot of your academic self; how on earth did you accumulate all of those publications/presentations? I’ve read/been told that it’s not really expected for undergrads to have publications prior to applying to Grad School (in pure math, that is), but when I see something like this I can’t help but wonder.</p>

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<p>Yeah i’m kind of curious as to why Columbia rejected you. I’m virtually ignorant of the grad school process, but from what i know publications are not expected, yet you have a decent amount.</p>

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<p>what’s considered a “publication”? I am asking because math journals come in various levels. My school administers its own undergraduate math journal for basically every undergrad math major around the world to submit his/her work.</p>

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<p>any one can respond to my question?</p>

<p>cheers</p>

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<p>Yes, not all journals are created equal. In academia, the quality of the publication has a lot to do with the evaluation of the paper’s merit. If a paper is cited by others, then it becomes an even greater factor. This begins in grad school and follows a person all the way through his/her career.</p>

<p>I’m not a math person, so I cannot comment on the quality of publications above, but I did notice that many publications were from proceedings at student conferences. Those are not considered “real” publications in academia. </p>

<p>Keep in mind that fields differ in how they evaluate the validity and importance of publications. Some fields are conference-dependent – that is, if you get a paper published in a proceedings of an important conference, that is a major publication – while others are journal-dependent – only papers published in certain professional journals are valid.</p>

<p>Does that answer your question, Pocket?</p>

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<p>Yeah, not all journals are created equal. For example Graph Theory notes is much easier to get published in than the Journal of Graph Theory. But you are right, undergrads are not expected to publish but it is a great experience to work on a paper with a professor or participate in an REU program.
By the way CUNY sends notices their applicants at the end of April while the deadline to register as a student for NYU is April 15. If anyone is ever applies to these two programs in math you should call or email CUNY to know whether you got accepted.</p>