Timeline for Covid gap year and grad school admissions
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| May 16, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Daveguy | Even then, research experience would be beneficial if you are applying to MS and especially PhD programs. If you are doing a gap year/semester, you most likely will be able to take the advanced coursework, you're just postponing it. If you feel reading will help you cement your research interests during this gap, more power to you. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | user124188 | What I'd really like here is the take of someone who has experience with math admissions specifically about how big a problem a gap in the resumé would be. I'm looking at this solely from the perspective of how big a minus it would be in admissions rather than how I can do something demonstrably useful with my life. That's because I already know that having time to do more reading is what will help me in terms of my actual knowledge and skill in math, and this in turn may become evident in the following two years. I feel I can handle self-led reading better at home than course requirements. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 16:33 | comment | added | user124188 | Thanks for this answer. In my case, "doing nothing" wouldn't really be doing nothing, of course. It's just that it wouldn't appear on my CV. I've read elsewhere that in math, the most important factor tends to be evidence of being able to do well in advanced coursework, while research experience is considered less important, work experience even less so. (I probably don't have enough programming skills to find a research internship in the private sector, so I'm not really sure what math-relevant research opportunities would be open to me if I'm not enrolled in university.) | |
| May 16, 2020 at 7:25 | history | answered | Daveguy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |