Catria
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I think my rejection off the waitlist at WUSTL physics is partially a function of them having shrunk the size of their entering class...
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Who is better placed to advertise a PhD program, a current student or a professor?
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The primary question is: what would cuts to science funding push students to do: undertake graduate studies abroad or leave science altogether?
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V152 Q167 AWA 5.5 WHat are the chances for top MPA/MPP programs?
Catria replied to umair45's topic in GRE/GMAT/etc
As with just about anything graduate school, GRE scores are far from everything. Work experience, GPA are also important ingredients... -
What are your 4 dream jobs? Are you qualified for any of them?
Catria replied to Authorization's topic in Jobs
MP (provincial or federal) Science policy advisor/analyst Professor (regardless of the presence of a graduate program) Research scientist -
I must admit I have been a little naïve in comparing the two. I did not intend to compare the two, they were just examples of how would one study abroad for "political reasons" even if these two reasons are otherwise disconnected. I did take active steps in protesting, just that I found that, while doing so, I found that I would do so differently depending on where I end up in graduate school.
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I'm different from some other people I know about that would take a PGS D abroad; attendance of a foreign school (Minnesota) is just one component of how my personal context fits in how I take action. Other Canadians I know that do graduate study abroad don't seem to want to take action as much. The first actions I took involved my supervisor because my supervisor is a vice president at CAP (Canadian Association of Physicists) and I proceeded to write to Mrs. Poduska, another CAP VP, also. Then came these videos, now publicly available on YouTube, and now writing to various federal officials. As far as my own riding is concerned, I would say that it could become a battleground between opponents of the Conservatives (NDP vs. Bloc to be precise)...
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Any chance for me at top 30 MBA program such as NYU Stern?
Catria replied to deezy415's topic in Business School Forum
NYU Stern (and other schools at that level) care more about essays, interviews and work experience than grades. Low-GPA students should, if their work experience is appropriate, nail the essays and the GMAT. You can essentially forget about Stanford GSB or Brown Prime (non-executive is more grades-intensive than the Brown Prime/IE Executive MBA)... -
Even though I overtly denounce the Canadian federal civilian science policy, how I proceed to do it is unorthodox at best. Although when I get asked about why I am attending Minnesota, I will say why I am disgruntled about Canadian civilian science policy every single time. I then proceed to claim that my attendance of Minnesota is a consequence of deleterious civilian scientific policy.
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By that, it can mean the following two things: 1) Doing graduate study abroad in order to protest deleterious policies in your home country (be it science, higher education, cultural policy or any other related thing) 2) Attempting to use a foreign university as a political asylum There are definitely students who are at schools outside their home countries for other reasons (e.g. lack of schools in their home countries doing X in field Y, primary sources inaccessible in their home countries or just because their dream jobs consider international mobility as an asset) that aren't politically explicit.
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What is a typical PhD stipend in Paris? (UPMC, ENS etc)
Catria replied to sindyburnburn's topic in The Bank
That's after tuition and taxes; nominally a doctoral contract is for 1,685 euros/month (that's without TA; with TA you have to do TA for 2 hours a week for a couple hundred more) -
Should I take the chemistry subject GRE for Chemistry PhD?
Catria replied to WebbsInferno's topic in GRE/GMAT/etc
I think that, for people who transition from another field to chemistry, the chemistry GRE will be more important than for those who majored in chemistry or biochemistry. -
I understand that, in many cases, professors can make suggestions as far as applying to graduate programs is concerned. The school I end up attending, Minnesota, was actually suggested to me by a professor that I asked to read my SOP (due to my supervisor advising me to have it read by a professor outside my subfield)... and, while that professor was a Minnesota alumnus, he was a condensed matter experimentalist, while I am a particle cosmologist.
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Field please... if it was a STEM discipline I would say that you didn't do yourself a disservice.
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Best to wait until postdoc to go somewhere else once you committed to a particular school for a PhD and started one... That is, unless your advisor changes schools, dies, retires, is denied tenure or loses funding. Or you have family reasons.
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Rejected by WUSTL off the waitlist on the deadline day...
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In order to keep rent costs down, I thought that it was a good idea to have roommates. But then there is the primary issue: some prospective roommates are undergraduates. Are there things to watch out for when you have an undergraduate for a roommate?
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Advantages of Pursuing the (Funded) MA
Catria replied to ToldAgain's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
But can a higher Q score make a difference in getting a fellowship (or otherwise make a difference in getting funding)? If yes, you should also practice Q if your Q score was low out of undergrad... -
You will have to commit to one of VA Tech or Minnesota astro before April 15 but if you get into Minnesota physics off the waitlist after April 15, ask for a written release from the one you committed to. Minnesota is more geared towards the observational; theory is mostly particle-based (Qian, Olive, Peloso, Ghergetta) and there is also Tom Jones, who is more computation-intensive but theoretical nonetheless. I hope you are not opposed to returning home after your PhD to teach physics on some level (and hopefully with the possibility of taking on a graduate student of your own)...
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I am worried that my choice of a destination may prove questionable to the people I leave behind at home, even though the program I will attend is still a respectable one for my field
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Anyone who doesn't understand that anyone with the ability to attend a top 20 university in the US for their Ph.D. is better off doing that than studying at a Canadian university isn't worth your time. U of Minnesota isn't Princeton or Stanford but you will undeniably get better training there, and have a better shot at the academic market, than if you attend any Canadian university.
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The impression I have: go to any of the following for physics and you may pass it off as normal: Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, UChicago, Princeton, Berkeley, UCSB, UIUC (for CM), Yale (for HEP-EX), UCLA, Columbia, Michigan, UPenn - other schools have regional reputations (Minnesota, NWU are best known in the Prairies, Washington in AB and BC)
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What is it that you want out of astro? The research topic will be a major decisional factor. You do know that observational astro is heavy-laden with statistics and computing; sometimes industries that really want data scientists will turn to astronomers, so you're not out of post-graduation options. The point of a PhD is to train independent researchers in a given area, and for that, you need to become an expert in a rather narrow area within your field; I feel that something is not right with how you approach a PhD process.
Do you have other prospects?