Dream School UBC
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:58 pm
Hello everyone
I am a Hispanic female applying to graduate school in the coming fall. I am currently attending a top 50 American school and I am looking into applying to Canadian schools specifically UBC. I see a trend on GPA, pgre, and research experience for many American school but not so many posts have Canadian schools. I visited UBC a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. The problem is my grades during my first and second year aren't stellar and were around a 3.2 average due to clinical depression. I took some time off to really think about my decision to continue physics and school in general. I figured out that I really loved physics. I returned and made an upward trend to about an average of 3.9 with consecutive 4.0's in the last year and a half. I have co-authored two papers in Hep-Th. I have also done a summer research position at JPL and banged out a paper for that. I also got accepted to a sweet hep-ex gig for this summer. My overall GPA is around a 3.5 now, my physics is a 3.8 and my pure math GPA is like a 3.7. Maybe overall can be a 3.6 by the end of spring but I don't know if it makes a difference. I have been getting like 800-900 points on the PGRE so hopefully I will get a 800+ on the real. I will be applying for Computational astrophysics, Hep-Th, and hep-ex programs. I saw that they only count third and fourth year courses if that is true do I stand a chance for being admitted? My advisors don't have any connections to UBC, and I'm worried that my first two years will still keep me out of the program. I also have Maryland and UC Irvine on my list because of strong connections however I feel dead set on UBC and I feel like it's a really good match for me. What do you guys think? Does anyone have a good general idea of what kind of students get admitted?
I am a Hispanic female applying to graduate school in the coming fall. I am currently attending a top 50 American school and I am looking into applying to Canadian schools specifically UBC. I see a trend on GPA, pgre, and research experience for many American school but not so many posts have Canadian schools. I visited UBC a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. The problem is my grades during my first and second year aren't stellar and were around a 3.2 average due to clinical depression. I took some time off to really think about my decision to continue physics and school in general. I figured out that I really loved physics. I returned and made an upward trend to about an average of 3.9 with consecutive 4.0's in the last year and a half. I have co-authored two papers in Hep-Th. I have also done a summer research position at JPL and banged out a paper for that. I also got accepted to a sweet hep-ex gig for this summer. My overall GPA is around a 3.5 now, my physics is a 3.8 and my pure math GPA is like a 3.7. Maybe overall can be a 3.6 by the end of spring but I don't know if it makes a difference. I have been getting like 800-900 points on the PGRE so hopefully I will get a 800+ on the real. I will be applying for Computational astrophysics, Hep-Th, and hep-ex programs. I saw that they only count third and fourth year courses if that is true do I stand a chance for being admitted? My advisors don't have any connections to UBC, and I'm worried that my first two years will still keep me out of the program. I also have Maryland and UC Irvine on my list because of strong connections however I feel dead set on UBC and I feel like it's a really good match for me. What do you guys think? Does anyone have a good general idea of what kind of students get admitted?