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kay

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I know it's a dumb question but somehow I cannot feel sure about this:

I'm currently doing master and I'm applying to PhD.

If there is no space for indicating my prospective graduation date,

can I put my prospective date in

"Date attended to: mm/yyyy"?

also in

"Degree earned: mm/yyyy"?

Thanks!

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I know it's a dumb question but somehow I cannot feel sure about this:

I'm currently doing master and I'm applying to PhD.

If there is no space for indicating my prospective graduation date,

can I put my prospective date in

"Date attended to: mm/yyyy"?

also in

"Degree earned: mm/yyyy"?

Thanks!

That's what I did and it seemed to work fine.

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I would have no problem with you putting it in the 'attended to' bit (since even if you were to fail, you would still be attending to that date), but not in degree earned since you have not actually earned it. Isn't there somewhere they explain what to do? I would imagine that 90% of applicants are still in school somehwere and would have the same problem.

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Yes, you should do that. Whenever I got asked a question like that (date attended to, date graduated-if I was required to put one) I just put "05/2010." On my resume, it says that my degree is in progress and expected graduation is May 2010, so it should be pretty obvious.

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I did the exact same thing. I don't feel like I'm claiming something that isn't true even putting my degree date as 05/2010. I mean, they can see that that's in the future and conclude that it's not 100% certain.

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