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A bit of encouragement
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:56 pm
by liljoey
To anyone who may be worried about their applications:
I've been accepted to UW Madison and Florida State for high energy theory, and my gpa is only a 3.1 and my PGRE was only 620. There's hope!
Don't let this silly board with all it's incessant analysis of what good scores are, how to write a good essay, and all the other mind-boggling, confidence-crushing statistics get you down. You'll be fine!
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:51 pm
by PhysicsPdx
Thank you for the encouragement!
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:14 pm
by Helio
Congrats to you.... against all odds it seems
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:37 pm
by bosem
@liljoey
Thank you... I am just praying that, I get in somewhere. Thanks for giving me some hope!
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:44 pm
by cato88
Double dare you to post to physicsforum
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:35 am
by pqortic
I hope it happens to me either. if so I will encourage you better than ever.
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:23 am
by tokamak
@liljoey
you don't have a couple of first author physical rev. letter publications, do you??.....
Re: A bit of encouragement
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:58 pm
by quizivex
It was nice of liljoey to give some encouragement, but I think this post may answer your question.
liljoey wrote:I'm really passionate about pursuing a Ph.D. in particle physics/cosmology phenomenology. I come from an Ivy league school, have some good research experience (including a particle physics pheno internship this summer), I think my recommendations will be pretty good, I've taken a very rigorous set of courses, and I've taken/am taking some classes in particle physics (texts: Griffiths Particle book, Georgi's Lie Algebras). I'm also a girl.
Here's the problem: I have pretty bad problems with text anxiety (and anxiety in general), which have really hurt my GPA and made me bomb my Phys GRE (GPA 3.1, PGRE only 620 - eek!). I've never talked to anyone about my anxiety issues, though, preferring to work through them myself, so I don't think I can discuss these as an extenuating circumstance on my application without seeming whiny and like I'm making excuses. (Am I wrong here? Is there a way to do it so that it won't hurt my application?)