考top school的math 专业的研究生真有这么难吗?

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It is very difficult to attend top mathematics graduate schools. The graduate students at Berkeley have astonishing records:

• One student graduated as a triple major in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics with a near perfect GPA, all with honors (and all with honors theses) from a top university.
• Another student graduated as a Mathematics major from Cal Tech with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
• Another student went to UC Berkeley for undergrad and had a near perfect GPA and began taking graduate courses his sophomore year.

... And the truth is that a lot of these students wouldn't be going to Berkeley had they been accepted to Princeton.

So, yes, it is unbelievably difficult to go to a top graduate school for mathematics.

It would require a near perfect GPA, 6 or more graduate courses, and research (all done at a top undergrad program).

A conversation that an undergrad friend from Berkeley had with her major advisor (who is a math professor at Berkeley):

• Professor: "So, what do you want to do?"
• Student: "Go to grad school."
• Professor: "In math or stats?"
• Student: "Math, ideally."
• Professor: "What's your GPA?"
• Student: "3.8"
• Professor: "I think that's a little low for a top math grad school."
• Student: "What would I need?"
• Professor: "Maybe a 4.0?"

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• 难怪我儿子说他没有任何机会被录取. 看了这个我才理解了。 -kathyzh- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:22:16

• 学 math的gpa不重要 -wzg69- ♂ (110 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:24:37

• 想当年 -got66- ♂ (242 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:28:11

• 读研究生？ -got66- ♂ (83 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:25:17

• 就怕还没到和教 授面试就给kick out了 -kathyzh- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:59:07

• 的确是这么难，和我知道的一样。那几所最TOP的是很难，不是特别天才也最好不要去读 -fakegreen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:26:20

• 关键是我儿缺research这块。他别的方面还可以。 -kathyzh- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 09:01:28

• 应该差不多。有还没毕业的PHD学生，就成了most sought after PHD of the year -OneManArmy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:27:06

• bottom school 的研究生院，就很容易进了 ：） -OneManArmy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:28:54

• 是的 -fakegreen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:30:25

• 研究生不是看学校啊 -got66- ♂ (26 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:31:24

• 对！最好的导师一般都在名校呃，但是 -OneManArmy- ♂ (257 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:36:16

• 其实，成绩不好，还想在bottom school捡宝找上特好的导师，跟做梦差不多 ：） -OneManArmy- ♂ (182 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:40:37

• 美国是市场决定一切，差不多的一切，好货不便宜，便宜没好货 呵呵 -OneManArmy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:42:11

• 有道理 -got66- ♂ (98 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:44:24

• 和数学教授讨论gpa -wzg69- ♂ (75 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:32:41

• 俺记得 -got66- ♂ (319 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:39:10

• PhD专业户啊 ，厉害！ -ca981- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 10:58:54

• 那里都是有理想的人 -二意三心- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:51:04

• 去普大拿菲尔兹概率高啊。伯大只有二个博士生同在82年得菲尔兹，普大有七个博士生得菲尔兹，2000年后就有三个。 -mmmwww- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:51:19

• 牛！！！ -OneManArmy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 08:59:21

• 6 Ph.D. 1 BA same with Harvard. -czhz- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 09:28:08

• 做应用数学专业如统计data science 不用去名校 -月亮_66- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 10:44:03

• 真的假的？我知道graduate应该更重视applicant对professor课题的兴趣。GPA不要太低就可以了。 -haoren3- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2019 postreply 11:21:13

• GPA？？ 只能说呵呵了 -光猜不想- ♂ (198 bytes) () 02/07/2019 postreply 01:14:36