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dih2

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  1. Out of curiosity, what kind of Marxist is Tuck?
  2. What sorts of questions are most useful to ask?
  3. Is this common among very elite programs though?
  4. Is it bad to do a PhD at the same place you did your BA? Specifically, does anyone know if this is a big deal for the theory subfield?
  5. Cohort is 24 people. Is that smaller than normal?
  6. do they normally send out all decisions at once?
  7. lol, we may have just killed you productivity
  8. So I guess we are about to find out how good that Harvard intel is!
  9. But what's really so wrong with people dropping out? As you say, the job market is super-saturated, and there just aren't jobs for many. Perhaps it isn't so bad that lots of people do a couple years of a PhD, learn quite a bit, maybe get a MA, and drop out to pursue another career path. I'm going in to a PhD knowing full well that I might not get a job in academia. As a result, I'll be looking quite aggressively at alternative professional opportunities. I don't think though that requiring a MA, for example, would be all that much of an improvement. Many of these programs are unpaid. Does it really make sense to incentivize more folks to pursue them? There the tradeoff becomes much starker. And for every 1 person who successfully finishes an MA and is accepted to a top graduate program, another 1 still doesn't get in, and is left with just more debt. That's of course exaggerated for effect, but I think there's a serious point there. Regarding smaller cohorts, I think I largely agree. One worry is that smaller cohorts would encourage universities to cut funding for these departments and for research (which would be terrible). But certainly non-elite elite programs should consider reducing the number of students they take
  10. Isn't the admissions process itself this screening process? Do these departments accept students who haven't demonstrated that they will likely succeed in the program?
  11. Well, I think it matters where that 1 spot falls. If it falls in theory, for example, we go from 4 spots to 3. That's a rather sizable reduction in your chances...
  12. Does this have to do with Harvard's funding cuts/reduction of spots across grad schools? Also, do you happen to know if it applies across sub fields? more generally, how does that work? Are there quotas within departments for the various subfields?
  13. What schools should we expect to hear from this week?
  14. Some Yale results went out last weekend, could that happen again this weekend?
  15. Is there a reason to think they go together?
  16. Does anyone know how the possibility of unionization (I believe they are voting this week on it) would effect future yale grad students?
  17. It included some vague language "fellowship for the first 2 years, TA the next 2 years, dissertation fellowship after that" But I was hoping for some specificity (especially on compensation during the years when you teach.) I also understand yale is going through this grad student unionization debate. Does anyone know of an objective source of information for how that might effect future grad students? How could funding packages change? What would union dues look like? How would it effect ability to work as an RA, etc.
  18. by the letter, do you just mean what was updated on the website (the letter from the dean)? Or have you received a package with more substantive info? Also, just to repeat, are these visiting days funded? I need to figure things out financially if not...
  19. Has anyone who got accepted to Yale heard more details about the visiting weekend? Is it funded? I just know the dates, but have heard nothing else.
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