Is it okay to directly ask professors about their placements? It is something that would be very important to me but it seems a bit... direct?
The website for two of my schools doesn't specify the subfield of the placements or the dissertation committee/chair and for one of them my POI hasn't been at the university long enough to have info on placements out yet (< 5 yrs)
Maybe too early to be worrying about this but does anyone have a rough template of what to say? In a case like this where you're backing out after actually having committed should you go into more detail? e.g. provide details of where you're going, why etc. Are there cases where the school being backed out from made things difficult?