<p>ilovecalifornia,</p>
<p>Depends on how "substantive" the experience is. The GMAT is a bit low, though.</p>
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Mollie,
Why did you apply to so many schools? It seems that one would just want to decide on 1 or 2 professors whose labs one would want to work in, and then go ahead and apply to those schools. After being accepted by over 5 grad schools, you still have to decide which one actually interests you, no?
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I was worried I wouldn't get in! Haha, I work for the undergrad admissions office at MIT, and I guess the will-I-get-in paranoia got to me. Plus, my GPA's not spectacular (3.4), so I was hedging my bets.</p>
<p>Also, my boyfriend and I are planning to go to grad school in the same place, so if you look at my schools, they're all either in Boston, SF, or LA (he's aerospace engineering and would want to go to MIT, Stanford, or Caltech). I wanted to give myself a few options in each location.</p>
<p>I mean, if I had known I was going to get in almost everywhere, I wouldn't have applied so many places. :)</p>
<p>I guess my question still stands... did you have contacts with professors for whom you wanted to work at each of those schools, or were you applying to places that you'd figured you'd find a lab at later?</p>
<p>Well, I looked through each program and made a list of faculty with whom I'd be interested in working, but my interests are somewhat wide-ranging and there were quite a few faculty members in each program that I liked. I didn't contact anyone prior to applying, though.</p>
<p>I think finding only one or two faculty members at each school is cutting it a little close -- they could move, or not accept any graduate students that year. I tried to find 5-10 people at each school.</p>
<p>Masters of Landscape Architecture:</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell (yay!)
UMass
Syracuse
RISD</p>
<p>Update...</p>
<p>Accepted to Syracuse for PhD Geology...guess the letter never got out, but they emailed me yesterday seeing if I was still interested and apologized for the mix-up.</p>
<p>Already going to Wisconsin...yay!</p>
<p>Now to work on current research...yay!</p>
<p>Edit: Also was accepted to Montana...</p>
<p>Only rejection was from Minnesota</p>
<p>I can't wait till I am at this point. The admissions process was a pain as an undergrad but getting accepted was the fun part.</p>
<p>I'll probably apply to at least ten schools because I too fear not getting acceepted. </p>
<p>I'll start my own acceptance thread next year and hopefully I'll have a lot of options! </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>hope all of you make the right decision.</p>
<p>For those interested:</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Berkeley (Astronomy)
MIT (Aero/Astro)
MIT (Engineering Systems Division)
MIT (EAPS - Planetary Science)
Cornell (Astronomy)
ASU (Geosciences)
U. Mich. (Aero)
Caltech (GPS - Planetary Science)</p>
<p>Decision: Caltech GPS</p>
<p>Good luck to all on the waitlists for the other programs, they are all excellent. I was especially impressed by Michigan Aerospace Engineering.</p>
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I think finding only one or two faculty members at each school is cutting it a little close -- they could move, or not accept any graduate students that year.
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<p>Yep, that's the problem. When you're talking about doctoral programs, you will be working closely with a prof. The problem is, the prof that you really want to work for might move to another school. Or, if an assistant prof, might not win tenure and thus get 'fired'. You never know.</p>
<p>sakky,</p>
<p>I know a grad student in the Harvard poli sci dept. who actually up and moved with his advisor. He had been at Cal before, but when his advisor moved, he moved with him. </p>
<p>How rare/common is that? Do you know?</p>
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Yep, that's the problem. When you're talking about doctoral programs, you will be working closely with a prof. The problem is, the prof that you really want to work for might move to another school. Or, if an assistant prof, might not win tenure and thus get 'fired'. You never know.
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<p>Not necessarily. For most Ph.D programs in philosophy, students are simply admitted into the department and work more closely with a professor much later during the program.</p>
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I know a grad student in the Harvard poli sci dept. who actually up and moved with his advisor. He had been at Cal before, but when his advisor moved, he moved with him.</p>
<p>How rare/common is that? Do you know?
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So the way I understand it, students are likely to move with their advisors if they're close to graduating/pretty far into their PhDs; first- or second-year students are more likely to just switch advisors.</p>
<p>If the student has JUST started working with the professor, the student will ususally just stay and switch advisors. If the student is near completion, he/she may or may not move with his/her advisor; if he/she does move, the degree will still be from the ORIGINAL school. The more complicated case is a student who is in the middle of his/her research with that advisor. Almost always they will move with the advisor, and in SOME cases, may actually officially transfer, depending on the rules of the departments/universities.</p>
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Not necessarily. For most Ph.D programs in philosophy, students are simply admitted into the department and work more closely with a professor much later during the program.
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<p>I'm sure we can all find exceptions to anything. But in general, it holds close to form.</p>
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I'm sure we can all find exceptions to anything. But in general, it holds close to form.
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<p>It holds firm for what? Most Ph.D programs or most philosophy Ph.D programs? If the former, I am unsure that you are correct. If the latter, you are incorrect.</p>
<p>Interesting. I started a debate.</p>
<p>The guy I want to do my PhD with at UCSD is likely to up and move soon, but I really don't want to leave the department. I was just wondering what most people do.</p>
<p>Ugh, I can't imagine the issues with funding when moving from one school to another.</p>
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It holds firm for what? Most Ph.D programs or most philosophy Ph.D programs? If the former, I am unsure that you are correct. If the latter, you are incorrect.
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<p>Actually, I think I am right in all cases. I never talked about the timing of WHEN you work with professors. I simply said that in every doctoral program, you will work closely with professors. When that stage is attained is irrelevant. If you enter a philosophy program and get to the point where you are working with profs, and that prof switches to some other school or gets 'fired' because of poor tenure review, then you have a problem on your hand. This is true whether you are in a philosophy PhD program or any other PhD program.</p>
<p>I got wait listed at my #1 choice. The school does rank...and they told me I was number one on the list. I think they actually accepted 20 to the program. I just need one student to decide to accept a school elsewhere. I hate waiting even though I am optimistic...but I also know that ANYTHING can happen.</p>
<p>NDCATDOG-- i feel ya. i got waitlisted for my 2 choice. and a big fat rejection was received from my 1st choice. lucky you they told you what number in line you are. all i got was a bloody email, and that was after an inquiry. damn this **** suux. congrats to you all who were accepted. way to go!!</p>
<p>at least i have a MA program to fall back on.</p>
<p>another season is upon us....another chance...!</p>