>>13367169i applied to around 10 schools, waitlisted from UCI, UCSB, UCSD, Minnesota (then rejected). one of them is my own alma mater. rejected everywhere else (berkeley, NYU, UCLA, Wisconsin, UMich. I only have a 3.8 and one "publication" (just on arxiv lmfao), my letters are decent enough. so yeah i may be legitimately mentally challenged. one of my professors said that the spots went from like 40 to 8 because of covid and that they only took people with masters degrees, so idk. maybe he was just trying to cheer me up, since he said in a normal year ucsb,uci,ucsd tier schools would be begging me to come.
i am fairly good at algebra, especially rings/fields/modules/galois theory (which doesn't show up kek), but complex analysis i took during online school so needless to say i remember fuck all besides the most important things (liouville, cauchy-riemann, residue, laurent series). so I'll spend time reviewing. i also am shit at groups since in my grad algebra class we went way too fast for me to get too familiar with them, while spending more time on other areas.
as i said im currently grinding every problem in stewarts, i also have schaum's so i guess ill use that too. I'm decent at calc but not multivariable, do I need to become insanely fast at those too? those green's theorem/stoke's theorem ones still take me some time lol
