Timeline for What qualities and achievements can outweigh bad grades? [closed]
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| Feb 3, 2021 at 6:13 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | @Carl-FredrikNybergBrodda I was pretty sure you were, as you say, being insightful and helpful. I've been trying (not always succeeding) to be overly careful online because tone of voice is so hard to transmit. In particular, even though I read your message as positive, I worried someone else might not. So thank you for clarifying! | |
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| Feb 2, 2021 at 14:01 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | @TheoJohnson-Freyd Just to clarify, my comment was intended to be without any negativity -- it was only meant to give some food for thought (which you expand on very well)! :-) | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 8:37 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | If you write a good Master's thesis (as you plan to do), then your grades prior to that will become significantly less important. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 23:53 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | @Carl-FredrikNybergBrodda's comment might (depending on how you read it) sound negative, but I think it is getting to something important. Why do you want to do a PhD in mathematics, and why do you think it is a better choice than the many many things you could do? Why do you think it is right for you, and, just as importantly, why do you think you are right for it? Of course I think a PhD in mathematics is a good choice, but I know that when I am considering candidate graduate students, I definitely want to know what their motivation is, and why they made this decision. | |
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 20:52 | comment | added | user173409 | @CarloBeenakker I thought about it, but I believe that this possibility is beyond my reach since the Mathematical Physics area is apparently very advanced and it is necessary to learn several mathematical tools to discover some unpublished result. | |
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 20:42 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | Given that you are asking this question, I suppose you have an answer to the following: what convinces YOU that your bad grades do not reflect your mathematical knowledge? That seems a good place to start, but I don't see any of this mentioned in your question. As an answer to your question, if you've been actively involved in side-projects, research projects, or similar, then these will look good | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 20:39 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | Evidence of original research activity? That would eclipse any grades. | |
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 20:20 | history | asked | user173409 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |