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> > I had a student who is truly a top student--she
> has a great gpa
> > (3.87), has good GREs (in the 600 range each), has
> had extensive
> > research experience . . .
>
Although there is no reason that any of you would, last year about this time I
posted a similar situation. My student had only A's and A+'s through her 5
year career (which was 5 years because she chose to participate in a special
research program at Purdue University). She was 2nd or 3rd author on 3 studies
and 1st author on one. She worked with several relatively well known faculty
and was an assistant in the office that oversaw research at the University.
She applied at 22 universities specifying which faculty she wanted to work
with, what her research interests were, and what she hoped to do to continue
her already developed research program. She was accepted at one of the
universities to which she applied, and I know the kind of letters that she got
because I wrote one and 3 others were sent by people that I know personally,
including 2 faculty at Purdue (she actually had 6 letters sent, 4 from the
faculty with whom she worked and two from others that had known her f!
or the 5 years that she spent in her total undergrad program). She also spoke
5 languages fluently, was a member of the Finnish World Championship
Synchronized Skating Team, and one of the most impressive people that I had as
a student in my (then) 38 years of teaching.
So, what does this mean? Maybe that there are way more people applying to grad
school now than there were even 10 years ago and that the number of students
that can be supported by the universities has decreased significantly. Either
that or the system doesn't necessarily select the best qualified students to
apply.
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Robert W. Wildblood, PhD
Riverside Counseling Center and
Adjunct Psychology Faculty @
Germanna Community College
[email protected]
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