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Going to grad school 12 years after getting a BS | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

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by vizioneer on Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 01:50:38 PM PDT

You may want to take some core courses in math- algebra, analysis, topology, etc. and do well and get recommendations. If you want to do applied math, you may want to take analysis, numberical analysis, etc. You may want to play off your strong background in computers and study for a PhD that uses that strength and math. As far as age goes, well there are some dept.'s that I've seen that have only grad students who've gotten their bachelors very recently, and some have a mix of ages. If you look at Rice e.g. all of their pure math grad students have gotten their bachelors recently (a couple of exceptions maybe), and from where I'm from, CU Boulder, there's a decent range of ages, and esp. applied math has a range, and there seems to be mostly guys in their 30s in that program. I wouldn't worry about it- just apply to a bunch of places, play on your strengths, get some core courses down with strong recommendations, apply, and see what happens. Nothing else you can do really. That's the nature of academia. Good luck.

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