Graduate School in Different Subject

Graduate School
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<p>I started at a community college and was interested in math and science and took the calculus sequence the engineering physics sequence and some programming classes, but after being rejected from a program called Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Washington twice, I decided to major in Finance at Washington State University instead.</p>

<p>I will probably have a GPA of around 3.5-3.7 when I graduate, and I believe I could get close to 800 on the quantitative portion of the GRE with some studying.</p>

<p>I am wondering what my options for graduate school are. I have heard that you can go to graduate school for things that are unrelated to your bachelors degree. To what extent is this true? Could I get into a masters or PhD program for applied math, physics or molecular or computational biology?</p>

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<p>Your undergraduate major needs to be at least somewhat related. It will be very difficult to get into graduate school in math/physics/biology if you majored in finance. At least, that’s what I think.</p>

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<p>I am in a similar situation- I am majoring in finance and want to do graduate work in math. Thankfully my program has a lot of flexibility so when I graduate I will have taken a fair amount of high level math. I simply emailed the schools I was interested in and asked if I would be suitable for their programs based on the classes I took. That is really all you can do.</p>