>gradated with physics degree 6 years ago>always was a monster at tests but had horrible study habits and kind of slacked my way to a 3.6 GPA with no undergrad research>"whatever, I can always just do great on the Physics GRE">thought about going back and applying for PhD>apparently basically every STEM grad school in the country removed the PGRE and MGRE to increase "equity" and even if you take them they now have no bearing on the admissions process>there is no longer a Chemistry GRE>so now literally the only things that matter are your GPA, undergrad research, and letters of recommendation>go to look at who is getting physics PhDs at these departments>it's just cheating foreigners from China and India and a small handful of domestic students who you could tell were ass kissers, just striver bugmen from the third world and womyn who turned in everything on timeSo that's how it is now huh? Wow. That is fucked.
>>16910300I know college is a scam.People don’t warn you about any of this stuff.
I'll always pour a shot out for my physics bros.
just be a cheating foreigner
You're complaining about not having to waste time studying for the GRE? Apply to grad school anyways.
>>16910300Get a job.
>>16910330Yes, do what this glowie says anon. Please get a job so that you can pay for his salary so that he can sit at his desk and tell people on the internet, like you, to get a job so that they can pay for his salary ad infinitum.
>>16910300The reason so few native sons get PhDs is because doing so is almost always a diabolical idea financially and personally.
>>16910300Physics students are abused gluttons of punishment. Fuck the system, just study physics for free. We're creating a physics hive mind that will leave the Universities far behind. We have more and better talent. Join us...
>>16910329it was my only ticket in and I enjoy doing physics problems
>>16910443Where do I sign up?
>>16910300Why do you even want to do a physics phd? It's not fun.
>>16910813why not?
>>16910300>I slacked off all of college due to ADHD/autism cramming behaviors and graduated with zero useful experiences or skills that I could use in a PhD. Now I'm mad that people who used their time properly are doing what I could have done if I wasn't lazy. Oh also they're brown and women or somethingWas your plan to become a physicist or a professional test taker? Only getting a 3.6 despite exam scores being your supposedly only advantage is just pathetic. Why do mods allow this garbage level of thread to constantly pop up in the 'log?
>>16910675>it was my only ticket inJust join a local synagogue
What the fuck is this post? I graduated undergrad with a 3.6 gpa, had mediocre research and bombed the pgre hard. Still got accepted as a white student. You are fucking retarded OP? This is the best time to be white in nearly half a fucking decade and you're out here whining about dei? You're worse than the diversity hires.
>>16910958And I would have gotten in based off pgre scores pre COVID. The changes in the admissions climate adversely effected me, why shouldn't that upset me? Yes I had bad executive functioning and study habits.
>>16911464>um I totally would have gotten in with the old deadlines that went away years ago which is why I can validly complain about sitting on my ass for four years of college Do you think that top or even mid tier PhD programs were just admitting people off their GRE scores 6 years ago and then completely ripped up the playbook to start from scratch on the entire admission algorithm just because George Floyd got killed? Obviously you wouldn't have gotten in anywhere halfway decent back then either without any research experience, shitty GPA (3.6 is shitty for any brand name schools), and no LORs (due to no research experience and meh grades)You would have then come to /sci/ to bitch even further about how blacks, browns, and women are taking your rightful place in physics PhD programs
>>16911469>>16911469they were and I would talk to the grad students at my school about their GPA and scores (also top 25 grad program), I don't think you know how much things changed in the past 10 years no matter how much revisionist history you do
