Any math graduate students out there??

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

My girlfriend is going to graduate within the next couple of quarters and wants to go to graduate school. She's been doing some research by herself, but I just wanted to help her out and do some research for her also. She's done some research on real analysis, dynamical systems, and topology - so she is leaning towards that kind of stuff for graduate school.

My questions are basically, what kind of schools should she be looking at? She kinda has an informal offer from berkeley, but I wanted her to shop around a bit and maybe see if she can land a spot at CalTech or some other place with an NSF fellowship, since Berkeley has a history of low funding. She took her GREs and got 800q, ~700v(don't remember the exact number), 3.89 GPA, and a plethora of professors to get letters of recs from.

I'm asking because I'm going to be tagging along with her while she goes to graduate school, and I want to get a decent job to support her if she doesn't land a fellowship, but I'm going to be graduating with a CE degree and I'm sure I won't be able to get a job anywhere near berkeley having to do with CE, if that's where she goes, and housing is ridiculous there. Any advice? I want her to go to the best place she can, but I also want a decent job as well.

 

[maziwanka]

i think the education will be free in any case (with or without a fellowship). the fellowship is hot cuz you dont need professor's money for education and you can pretty much do what u want where u want.

in either case, the money's something like 20-25k a year so ull have to try and support her in either case.

she sounds like a really smart girl, so best of luck with finding the right school (everything lies in choosing the right field of research).