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>>29856080
presumably you have a math degree? lots of interesting programming jobs require that. by "interesting", i mean _actual_ software jobs, like fintech, simulation, layout tools, CAD tools, etc. not webshit and braindead UI business logic garbage.
why not poke your head into industry?

>>29856080
Put some fake tan on and wear some dreads. Then you'll get accepted

>>29856625
yeah I graduate this spring, I have minimal coding experience tho. I guess I don't really have a fucking choice, but my interests are mainly in pure math like logic, ergodic theory, and symbolic dynamics. I also do not want to work for a FAANG company or be a codemonkey. Maybe if I learn solidity i could work in fintech? lmao. it just hurts my self esteem man to get shit on this hard

>>29856704
mfw mexican friend gets into MIT despite him praising me as a genius and saying im one of the smartest kids at our school

>>29856080
Are you a white male or asian? You don't have to tell me which one you are, but want to know if you're either.

Top dolla

>>29856825
white replacement program

>>29856080
are you a chink? that would explain it
if you are, change your name to Tyrone DeShawn and claim you are african-american with a native american grandfather and they'll roll out the red carpet for you

>>29856843
indian actually (i guess that counts as asian) but I was born and raised in the US so I don't get the fob bonus

>>29856080
Whats your math power level? Are you actually good? dont measure by gpa can you pwn your peers?

asians are heavily discriminated against, they're like 66% of top achievers but 33% of admissions

>>29856895
i am brown kek but asians too are getting shit on by this shit. Either be a woman or a minority to get in to these places. It's kinda funny since when i was taking grad classes at my school, the department had to make the classes easier so that the women could pass lmao

If u know the powers of math why do u even need a job, you understand the forces of rhe universe, just become a warlock

>>29856080
>going to college during the biblical apocalypse

>>29857088
im not the smartest person in my school (relatively big UC, largest of its size) but in every undergrad math class I get an A with no effort (besides online school where i have no motivation) but in graduate classes i struggled a bit but still managed to get an A-. I was always ranked at least 5th in every class I took, except for grad classes. Yes I do believe I can shit on my peers, but clearly i need to be taken down a notch since i got shit on this admissions process

>>29856963
there are no black people in math I think they'd realize it's an obvious LARP kek

>>29857109
perhaps the problem is that you keep shitting in the streets

>>29857129
believe it or not i do believe in a lot of random esoteric crap like LOA and meditation and yoga, probably just because I have pajeet roots

>>29857045
>Asian
Yep, thats why. I live in a Chinese/Korean community in california, many of them are frustrated about this as well. It doesn't help that Indians make the highest average income of all races, either.

We bros need to make a pact that once we rise up in power, boycott hiring anyone from any of these pozzed schools.

>>29857309
i knew id get at least one street shitter comment lmao. Believe it or not there are actually high iq people in india (ramanujan), just that the vast majority of people are street shitters and scammers but w/e.

>>29856080
I got rejected from 10 schools the first time I applied to my PhD, I finally got accepted a year later. Competition should be big for a while since people that got fired due to the pandemic applied this year since they might as well go to grad school.

Just keep trying, it's a fucking pain, it sucks, it's expensive and it makes you feel inadequate, but it's not your fault, it's just that 99% of admissions people are assholes.

>>29856825
>>29856895
>>29857109
Top schools are 100% luck, if you pass the minimum threshold you just get to be selected randomly by someone in the admissions committee.

>>29857430
any indian that comes to the US is literally the 1% of the 1%, my dad is unironically a genius. I just feel dissapointed that im a literal midwit compared to him

>>29857561
I got rejected from UCLA, UCB (those were my top choices) but I even got rejected from some lesser schools too that I thought were safeties. It really makes me question if im actually just retarded if these people won't accept me

>>29857497
supposedly according to my advisor the spots went from like 30->10, but i seriously have no backup plans for this gap year which is stressing me out

>>29857228
i highly doubt this is the second coming, probably just the feeling of being in a dying civilization that is America, but I guess we'll see.

>>29857645
Bro I got rejected from UCLA and UCSD my first year round and got an interview from Stanford the second time around. This happens to about half of the people I have talked to. There may be some flaws in your application, and you might want to talk to someone who is in one of these boards.

Even your "lesser" schools may be hard to get into. Some schools release statistics on who gets in and what's their profile (I recall UCLA doing it, for example)

>>29857801
Oh yeah I forgot about that detail, some schools might have more limited funding, especially UCs since they've been closed for a whole year.

>>29857965
since I graduate, I have no real chance to increase my GPA. What should I do then to improve my application? Get a job? See if I can do more research or something?

>>29856825
Evidently you're smart but he is smarter than you

>>29858340
he copied off me on every single hw assignment and needed my help on almost everything LUL

>>29858284
Do you have any publications right now? It might sound like bullshit, but if you're applying to a top grad school with no publications you're fucked. Start thinking of your top choices and reach instead.

Is your GPA bad? Usually people who apply to top schools have that as a non-issue. What's your scores on the GRE? Is that past the threshold? The only thing you can do if you're good enough is to apply to a bunch of schools at once and be good at writing bullshit on the SOP. Hopefully you did some undergrad research.

Lastly, I wouldn't assume that you're getting in like, ever. There was a guy on gradcafe that applied like 5 years in a row and got rejected from basically every school until he got into one. Get a job and just leave when you get in. Don't tell them that you're planning to leave in a year, it's their problem.

>>29858620
one publication on arXiv, not in a real journal unfortunately: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.0081
3.8 GPA, math subject GRE was cancelled this year due to covid. 330 on the regular one, 166 quant 164 verbal 5 essay. Had various professors edit my SOP and say it was pretty good, but there is always room for improvement there

>>29858862
Yeah uh don't post your publications on 4chan lmao.

Anyway, verbal literally doesn't matter in STEM, 166 should be fine for the regular GRE since that's just one or two wrong questions. Definitely take the subject of you can. GPA is fine. The only suggestion I have is to contact your professor and see if you guys can publish that arxiv paper in a conference (not a journal, but better than arxiv).

>>29859207
oh right i guess im too drunk I didn't realize I doxxed myself kek. w/e at this point I really care. The thing is by my own standards that paper is pretty shit, I think I'll ask my professor to see if I can get something else going. What kind of job should I apply for? I was seriously considering fucking off from America and teaching english in japan a year from now (so I'd take a 2 year gap year) is this a retarded idea? If i reapply I'll have to take it, but im nto sure how well i could do. I spent last summer studying for it like 8-10 hours a day, and even then I could only get like 80%ile

>>29859450
80 percentile is fine. You'll at least get somewhere, the problem is that with no subject GRE you'll have trouble differentiating from other candidates with a number score. For contrast, I got a 168 on the general and a 40 percentile on the math subject, I'm a CS major and I was trying to get into a math program, I ended up going on a CS one since I knew I couldn't improve it enough.

Getting a job in Japan isn't that bad of an idea, you'd get some time for the pandemic shit to clear (unless you believe some kind of recession is following this, I don't think so, but that's your decision) and would give you some teaching experience, but I would rather get some experience in something related to math. Maybe some consulting gig, or some fintech bullshit? I got a part time job at a fintech company, but I'm a programmer, so it's easier for me to get that kind of stuff.

>>29859964
that could be one reason why admissions are so dogshit this year, since there's no number score. The main reason I would want to teach english is because im a weeb faggot and I also just want to take a "vacation" of sorts where i can fuck off from the bullshit of America/my family and just study in my free time. Since the next deadline for JET is next november, I'd have to get a job this year, then teach english the next year. But im not sure if i should just apply again while studying for the mGRE. furthermore i have no practical skills and have no fucking idea how i would get a job

>>29856080
i feel you anon. i applied for phd in molecular bio/genetics and got:4 rejections, 2 waitlists, and im still waiting to hear back from one school. grad programs have been rough since the pandemic started because more people are applying and schools have less funding

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>>29860386
As a sidenote, if you hear nothing by mid-January you're probably fucked.

>>29861144
to be clear i've had 2 interviews: 1 put me on the waitlist and the other im still waiting to hear from (was pretty recent).

>>29856080
Mark woman on the application and wear earrings to any interviews.

GRE score?

>>29856080
I'm in a similar position OP. Killing myself if I haven't made it by Q4. Medfag, low gpa, low will to live.

>>29856080
Programs are recruiting less because of covid. There are probably the same number applying though. Same number of people divided over less programs. It's just a shit time to apply my friend

>>29861255
That's hearing something I think, although from what I hear waitlists never pan out because everyone holds onto their offers until April 15th.

FAKER WHAT WAS THAT

Ryu: (- _ -)

>>29861721
yeah they gave a timeline of when i'd likely hear back from the waitlist and it ranges from april 15th to like late may. im hoping i get into the other program so i can shut my mind off of admissions for the first time in a few months. i would rather go to the program im waitlisted at but beggars cant be choosers right now and my hopes are pretty low