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Hi everyone. I wanted to pose an hypothetical question. Suppose we have a student who is a graduate from a physics program in a Canadian university (e.g. University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, McGill University, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, University of Guelph, etc.)
Suppose that the graduate had earned, say, the equivalent of a 3.8 or 3.9 (out of 4.0) GPA, and scored in the top 90th percentile in both the general and the PGRE. Suppose further that the said student had research experience (through the NSERC Undergraduate Research Award, the Canadian equivalent of the REU), and had what @Vanadium 50 would describe as good or strong letters of recommendation.
What would you estimate would be the probability of that student being accepted into a top 25 graduate program in physics in the US? (e.g. Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, Stanford, etc.)
Suppose that the graduate had earned, say, the equivalent of a 3.8 or 3.9 (out of 4.0) GPA, and scored in the top 90th percentile in both the general and the PGRE. Suppose further that the said student had research experience (through the NSERC Undergraduate Research Award, the Canadian equivalent of the REU), and had what @Vanadium 50 would describe as good or strong letters of recommendation.
What would you estimate would be the probability of that student being accepted into a top 25 graduate program in physics in the US? (e.g. Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, Stanford, etc.)