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i've never met an academic who would put his or her name above a students who performed the research and wrote the manuscript. I know it happens but professors are generally decent people. It makes no difference to the career of a tenured professor to be second author unless of course it is a submission to nature or science which few students could accomplish on their own. What you described, DalPhDer, would be a case where the student has not written the manuscript.

If you wrote the MS then you are the first author. If your supervisor puts his or her name first then you have a pretty bad supervisor. The first author generally picks the order of authors, using common sense of course. In Europe, the first author for some reason is sometimes last. I would not follow that convention if I was you hehe...

anything to build up your cv is good. competitive awards are especially important because they will be considered when you are up for future awards.

the app might not even let you submit more than 500 words. if it does, you would be making a terrible mistake by submitting more than the required length. you will run into these length requirements throughout your academic career when publishing or submitting to conferences and exceeding the word limit is unprofessional.

if they are going to fund you next year than you can defer your admission or you could ask if you could start taking classes this year on a part time basis while you work full time.

You should probably appeal to your student union and to the university ombudsman at this point. have you spoken to your department chair? as far as i know, you can't simply be kicked out of a lab because the professor doesn't like you

you most likely won't hear back until mid-march or even mid-april.

ask yourself if you really think that applying next year will make a difference. next time you should research funding packages before applying - most departments have minimum guarantees on their websites. you should also ask your POI or graduate secretary what you can expect.

i'd hope that a person entering graduate school would already the life skills of an adult

oh i didnt know that. thanks

film as an academic discipline? no. as an engineer or physicist sure. please enlighten me, i don't get it.

ok so you must not be in film then

Lots of Concordia masters students go on to pursue PhDs at excellent schools. If your advisor thinks otherwise then he is completely wrong. Hell, I am starting my PhD in September...

which university did you apply to? this is very common on canadian grad applications and it is really annoying because the field doesn't give any indication of max or suggested length. write a 1 page SOP right away and email it to the grad secretary. it will undoubtedly be added to your file. I wouldn't worry but be quick about it.

why accept unless you have to? just wait.

it's a terrible idea

rank is one of those superficial metrics that professors latch onto even as they build their own careers at low rank universities. the most important thing is to publish frequently in good journals. if your potential supervisor is very active, the ranking of the school doesn't make a huge difference at the graduate level. it is also important to consider how well known and connected your supervisor is because in many instances, a letter of introduction or referee report will be more important than the name of your school.

Concordia is not a very good school academically but it won't hurt your chances at a PhD provided that you have top grades and demonstrate your research potential by attending conferences and by publishing. However, Concordia offers the potential for a great quality of life because it is in the middle of downtown montreal - and unlike UQAM, its not in the crackhead part. It is easily accessible from many Montreal neighbourhoods. I live 6 km away from the downtown campus and it takes me 20 minutes by public transit to get to school. It also has decent facilities. Understand that there is a great deal of campus unrest in terms of political activism but it is also chronically underfunded and facing deep budget cuts by the provincial government. None of this is likely to affect you unless your compatriots decide to shut down your department again, which i suppose is possible. Returning to academics, SFU is probably better than Concordia but these are all lower rung canadian schools so I don't think you need to worry about concordia's ranking.

oh well sure why not since you will have time, aim for a publishable lit review

of course you should some american universities will still take applications. perhaps you should consider schools in canada - many of which will take applications right until june

do you not expect to win because your program is film?

do you have a supervisor at that school yet? if so, that is the person to contact

the vast majority of faculty and administrators had nothing to do with the sex abuse scandal and the complicit are sanctioned. So who exactly are you referring to? Faculty? Undergrads? Grads? Administrators? Support staff? You are spewing mere non-sense. You haven't a clue what you are talking about.

I print out all of my articles and make notes on them

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