PhD admissions (pt 8): measures of success 

Yes! The GRE is a "horrible test"!

I just got my first call for an interview at ND and I can't thank you guys enough. These vids have been so so helpful

Wow thank you very much!!! You guys are very helpful!!!!! Love it!!

Thankyou so much. You took off a huge load off my chest!

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kool vid series!

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In my foundation year (which is counted in my GPA) i got a C+ in math, however, right now I’m an A student on mathematical courses. The reason why i got a c is because in the first 10 minutes of the final exam, which was 40% of the whole course grade, an instructor make a ruckus on how a student was cheating, and was screaming loudly and swearing that there will be consequences... as a person with anxiety, this made me so anxious and nervous to the point where i forgot how to solve several formulas, and went from being an A student to a C student. Will Harvard ever consider prep year scores? If so, should i mention it in the sop? I’m afraid if i do mention it, maybe its going to reflect some weaknesses that are better kept untold (anxiety)

It's been a really long time since you uploaded your last video!

So, I have 3 years of undergraduate research and a summer spent at an REU, graduated from my school's Honors program, but have poor gre and gpa scores( 80th for reading and writing and 30th for math, and a 3.44 overall gpa). I've been involved in a ton of science extracurricular activities and was even President of my school's Chi Beta Phi chapter. I've already been rejected from two programs out of the 11 I've applied to. I addressed my circumstances that caused me to have a few bad marks, but I'm worried about my prospects. I have just been super stressed out about all of this... I can't help but feel like I'm lacking... Anyone else dealing with this?

thank you, learnt a lot

Hey Lillian! Thanks a tonne for providing such valuable insights. You'd mentioned in the video about some universities being more GPA/GRE centric than others. Is there a method to find university's priorities if they haven't mentioned them explicitly?

I am a political science student and will be applying for PhD this year. I have been reading up on GRE requirements for admission in ivy leagues and though they say that GRE scores are not that important and they focus more on academia and other factors such as experience, the students who are admitted have scores above 320 out of 340. This was written on the website of an ivy league. So clearly, they do want exceptional GRE scores even if it's a social science course.

Are you guys familiar with doing a PhD in Sweden? I was recently invited for an interview for a PhD position in a university in Sweden and it is about four weeks now I have not heard from them. Do you have any word of advice for me?

Hey, I am the first author of an International Journal with 5.4 impact factor which is also a HOT paper and another paper as first author with IF 5. CGPA is 3.5 in my Master's project. Please tell me which top universities I can land into for PhD?

I am from India, I have done M.sc Zoology this year, I have passed it to me, I want to take admission in Oxford University, for PHD in biology what should I do for that, tell the full process And what I have to do to take admission there please reply.............🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

At the time of application I'll be working towards my honours but obviously will be yet to complete it. How would I mention this? Also does doing a less than normal course load (4 courses instead of 5 per semester) look bad?

Hello,ma'am,is it mandatory to have any extracarricular activities to be selected at Harvard (or, any ivy league university)????

umm how is assessing someone on pubs not fair? makes my head spin when Americans, living in the wealthiest and most privileged society in the world talk about not having opportunities, you have opportunities Kyle, you just need to E-mail that prof at UCLA, apply to that grant with a 20% acceptance rate that you call cOmPeTeTiVe and take an overnight train to their university before you start working. While someone from Asia or Africa doesn't even have that option because most probably there just aren't people doing that specific research in their country. And no, 3rd 4th 5th whatever author papers still require you to put your foot in the door and get involved, if I, a lower middle class cunt from a small Indian town can furiously reach out to people for opportunities, work with whatever I come by and still have 4 decent IF publications in my senior year so can literally anyone else and it won't be unfair to judge people's profile over it.

whats your ethnicity?

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