Thank you for your interest in the MIT Physics graduate program! For students applying to the class of 2023, out of 21,312 applicants, MIT admitted 1,410. Some of us are smart and lazy (well, lazy if we had to do the work in other departments, which often contain more busywork+memorization+class participation), and we might actually find physics programs to be MUCH easier to get into. But that doesn't necessarily make it harder to get into, for someone who probably already has that intelligence.

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A physics PhD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chemistry/Biology/Biochemistry

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In difficulty. One of the original six courses offered when MIT was founded in 1865, MechE's faculty and students conduct research that pushes boundaries and provides creative solutions for the world's problems.

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E.g. Certainly, few people get the advice to pursue those fields, but they also tend to attract all sorts of majors, and there aren't very many of them at all. So you can imagine it some pretty wide fields. Note: Click on column header to sort.

Okay, good point about humanities. Maybe social sciences are easier to get in WITHOUT funding, but I'm talking about getting in with the case of funding. 1-2 years of MD, then the PhD part, then finish up MD. But that's also because you're not competing with the premeds (who will just apply for med schools).

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As for the computational biology field though, I'm relying on hearsay from someone I know from another forum.

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The key to that: a high PGRE score paired up with research. I spent the past summer in an NSF funded program for Computational Biology and it had a 4% acceptance rate.

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Most of this reasoning is unconvincing. [quote] Some students may have to wait for another application cycle because they don't get into any programs the first time, for whatever reasons.

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Most of my research is in the astro department but maybe they're willing to take recommendations from people in other departments?

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And do most of them require advanced GREs or not? The application website will be available on September 15 for students who wish to apply to enter the graduate program the following September. But if you don't have much research, or don't have a solid bio/math/computer combination background, you might find admissions extremely competitive, even with a 4.0. Graduate Admissions Requirements. People just don't do them.

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The Physics GRE is one of the most important parts of the application, and the part that's actually the easiest to improve.