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@XanderHenderson I mean my plans aren't completely terrible the uni's i'm looking at are reputable and the air force will have me traveling so i'll be going to a bunch of places

I think he died

JHU also offers in person as well

@XanderHenderson the reason why I started thinking of doing online for a bit was because of the wide course selection at a place like ep.jhu.edu/programs/applied-and-computational-mathematics/…

@XanderHenderson what I could do is after grinding some more advanced undergraduate math courses just come in person to my local uni catalog.okstate.edu/courses/math

But I can understand why an admissions committee would be suspicious regarding just purely online courses

@XanderHenderson best local uni to me is OSU but with the financial support I'll be getting it's worth it for me to attend in person while fixing my gpa while remotely enrolled at my home uni

@XanderHenderson I was aiming to do that but I had move out of state for my tech job there no jobs in my home state

@XanderHenderson give your insight what makes ASU so bad ? The reason I was intrigued was besides JHU they were offering the Physics sequence

@XanderHenderson I can send you the list of some of the uni's i'm looking at

@XanderHenderson but is ASU's online offferings that bad tho ?

True but with how competitive things have gotten and with the rejections I've seen I want to be prepared

Yeah and I also will need to meet the gpa requirements as well

The issue is my uni won't let me transfer in credits from outside universitys

@XanderHenderson I mean if I was in EU I would just go in person to their taught course centers or nearby institutes

Like the uni's aren't diploma mills but I can understand where your coming from @XanderHenderson

@XanderHenderson like the places that offer these courses are like uni's like IU Bloomington and John Hopkins tho

Lemme check them out

I'm not aiming to get a degree online but just to get more courses to learn more

What's wrong with ASU ?

ASU has the entire undergraduate sequence and my home uni as a decent selection of math's course at the advanced undergraduate level

@XanderHenderson that makes sense but for now my main focus is just to learn more some of these online uni's have a very nice course selection like John Hopkins has the entire grad sequence for Physics online

It's just that I wanted to explore math/physics a bit more in depth before heading back

@XanderHenderson i'm aware :( my current job has nice education benefits and they even encourage us to do masters and they have programs for people looking to go to graduate school

Currently it's looking my plans are achievable since I might be getting a older gf that is willing to help out with education expenses :)

@XanderHenderson btw did you what you wanted to research when you entered graduate school ?

Rip tried to get a second remote job but looks like it's going to be a rejection :'(

Also I got a research cs job and will be starting on the 17th

Morning

Anyway g'night I gotta head to bed and get ready for today

But in summary yes @leslietownes I consider my situation a bit alarming I barely touched enough math I don't think most programs would be satisfied with my current results

@user85795 ^

I'll need to take the graduate versions of those classes to beef things up and go from there

C+, B-, C, B, B-, C+, C, D+, A, A are my math grades at this point

another indepedent study for math I did last semester

I just checked my transcript I actually have one more A

@leslietownes from the research i've been doing it seems like thats the expectation

I would say alarming the grades are pretty inconsistent and I was taking them when I had to catch up on my other requirements

B in Abstract B in Linear B- in Comp Sci and the A is coming from an independent study

C+, B-, C, B, B-, C+, C, D+, A are like my math grades

But with how competitive things are getting I need to do more then the bare minimum I need a very wide spanning mathematical background

For instance if I was heading to a Physics program I would need the other core physics courses as well

@leslietownes actually what I should have to be fine at most programs is the core pure math courses + (exposure to an applied topic at least)

I've already been doing that :)

I've only ready been doing that :)

Like Physicsts will stroll into a pure math department and mathematicans will do as well for interdisciplinary programs the prefect candiate will be able to understand the needs and motivations of both camps and be able to pivot their research accordingly

Like at the early stage it's important to have some breath and that's one of the main weaknesses of my profile

@leslietownes to be more specific the programs i'm looking at are in Theoretical Computer Science/Physics and the specific departments research I'm looking at people doing things in quantum computing, condensed matter, chemistry, etc involves a lot of math's, engineering, etc. Like yes there is stuff that is specific to pure math but I don't think that is the case in this era.