Met Grad Schools

[Adam Childers]

I was just wondering about any information people may have on graduate degree programs that focus on severe weather and mesoscale met. The school I am really looking into currently is, of course, Univ. of Oklahoma.
I would prefer a school that is in a decent size city (100,000+) or at least quite close to a larger city. The area also needs to be fairly affordable, because I'm a college student with a huge amount of student debt ie broke
Any advice on things to do that may help me get into a program would also be greatly appreciated. I have been in college a few years (bio major and a couple others earlier) and my grades the past couple years have been horrible. This semester they are much better however. I always used to get great grades without doing anything, so I just now figured out how to study. I am transferring to Metro State in Denver to finish my degree and have all the core met courses to take and a couple math classes. All gen eds and the other science courses I have taken already. Thanks in advance !!!

 

[Derek Mohr]

I've heard the college of DuPage is another to look into but never did myself

 

[Chris Nuttall]

Texas Tech is another good grad program. I've worked with a couple of people that went there.

 

[Kiel Ortega]

I believe this is what all the School of Meteorology suggests to incoming students. For numbers, it's at least 3.0 on a 4 point scale (3.5 is much preferred) GPA; 700+ on the math part of GRE and 500+ on the verbal. For the written (is called analytical?) they want something at or above a 3-4. Since OU was specifically asked about, you'll need to have passed or, if accepted, pass partial differential equations (PDE) before you can even really move into the curriculum (so love math).

Past that, you're gonna want to know some sort of programming (like simple scripting) or you'll be behind the 8 ball.