<p>Though, in math, almost no one brings in an audience of more than 30 people. A lecture delivered to the math department at our school by David Mumford, a Fields medalist, drew only about 20 people.</p>
<p>Depends on where you are. I was visiting Stony Brook and one of the seminars brought in a good 40-50 people.</p>
<p>Dag, yo.</p>
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<p>I've got 2 quarters left before I graduate, and right now my stats are:</p>
<p>*3.5 GPA
*3.38 Math GPA (3.746 upper division)
*Have not yet taken GRE
*Will take a few graduate courses next year
*Expect 3 well-written rec. letters from faculty
*Doing an REU this summer
*Currently working as an undergrad research assistant in a cognitive neurolinguistics lab (not related to Math, but it is a research environment)</p>
<p>I ran away to art school for two years before accepting my true nature as a math nerd and went to community college while working full-time before transferring here (UC Davis). Working full-time put a serious dent into my GPA.</p>
<p>I don't really know much about schools outside of California, but I've lived here for my whole life and very strongly feel the need to experience something different.</p>
<p>My math interests are leaning towards topology and algebra.</p>
<p>I'd be very interested to hear from someone with comparable statistics in regards to what schools they were accepted into and rejected from.</p>
<p>mudge - you never know how well you might do. Sure, your GPA isn't perfect; however, it looks like you'll have the coursework, the research experience, and the letters to succeed. You could certainly still try Harvard and Columbia; however, admissions to schools like that can be a total crapshoot.</p>
<p>One thing you might want to do is use your statement of purpose to explain the whole art school period, working full-time, and finally finding your way to math. Explain that although it took you a while to realize how much you love math, now that you have found your niche you are doing much better in school (shown by your great letters of recommendation, your research experience, and your high GPA in upper-division math courses). Maybe even talk to the professors writing your letters of recommendation to see what they think - if they know you're worried about that, maybe they'll reassure you that it won't be a problem. Who knows.</p>
<p>Basically, it would be stupid for nearly anyone to really get their hopes up over Harvard or Columbia; however, there are many great schools out there, and you will probably end up somewhere where you'll be happy. Most people do (assuming they don't have the "Harvard or bust" menatlity.</p>
<p>some elaborate posts there emengee. Really great.
I was wondering if you have some info on the master's programs.
You emphasized research a lot for the phd program, but is it necessary for the master's? Also the other things you mentioned, like taking graduate courses, and so on. It seems like you are from NYU, and NYU's on my top priority school list (for the master's) because it's so good in applied math. Could you tell me what the average gpas and gre scores are for NYU (again, for the master's degree)? As for my profile, it's not that good. i'm from berkeley, 3.3 gpa, 3.6 math, haven't taken GREs but i think i'll get 780-800Q, 80+ percentile Math GRE. One problem is, my upper div courses are about 3.75 but the elementary ones are quite low (i heard these are important), like intro to dif. eq. and linear alg., multiv. calc. just calc (got all in the B range).</p>
<p>drcongo - Applying to PhD programs and applying to Masters programs are two very different things in math. It is extremely rare for a student to apply for a Masters program in math in the United States, and thus I doubt there are any statistics available anywhere for average GPA and the like. One thing I can tell you is that at NYU, it is much, much, much, much, much easier to get into the Masters program than the PhD program because the Masters students do not receive funding; thus they admit more students with weaker backgrounds because they're going to be getting a good $30,000/year from these students.</p>
<p>If you want more information about applying to Masters programs, you're going to have to find someone who has already done so. I suggest looking at schools' departmental websites and contacting students in the Masters programs.</p>
<p>Thank you very much~</p>