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GRE Exams after 2 years of PhD program work
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Grad Life
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By dhilbert83
Posted Sun Aug 06, 2006 at 12:24:29 PM PDT
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Hello, I am currently in a math PhD program and am seeking to possibly transfer out (this will be my second year in the current math program). I have good undergrad gpa/courses, though from a rather average technological school, and I have taken standard PhD courses (algebra, analysis, PDE, topology, complex analysis, etc.) though again I'm currently in a rather average to poor graduate program.
My research from undergraduate is rather good (a paper accepted into the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications and a 'paper' published in the Rose Hulman Undergrad Math journal, and here I put 'paper' in quotations since I know it doesn't count for much), but my math GRE scores from undergraduate is horrific: 42 percentile.
Is it worthwhile to retake the math GREs? I'd imgagine it is silly, since, having taken a full spectrum of PhD courses from a PhD program, a good GRE score would simply reflect that, and nothing else. Is my logic off the mark?
(I should also mention that I applied to some schools (uni of pitts, Uni of maryland, Indiana uni, CMU, rutgers) last year while I was in my first year of PhD studies at my current program, and got into maryland and Indiana with a standard (15-20 hr/week) assistantship but didn't get into the others (got into pitts without an assistantship), and decided to give it another year at my current intstitution, hoping to reapply to Pitts (my first choice), Rutgers, and maybe CMU. Would retaking the GREs increase my chances this time of getting into/getting assistantships to these schools? Also, would it seem bizzare to Indiana or Maryland if I decide to apply to them again?)
Thanks!
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