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I was very close to doing this myself. I would lean heavily away from this, especially for the US programs. See if you can publish some articles in journals on your own (you can use your undergrad affiliation if you need to) I think it's different if the program categorically says there are no opportunities for partial funding, or if they at least pretend that there are. If they pretend that there are, it's maybe not as horrible
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It was me . It's quite simple; on the date when others were notified of being accepted, I was told I was waitlisted. Then two weeks later, someone must have declined their offer, and I was told I was accepted. (I actually know one of the French candidates declined) I had the feeling I was already destined to be a backup candidate before the panel interview. The panel interview was mixed—I think I said some good things, but was also very nervous and talked too much (with five professors in the meeting with different interests and preferences, it is a very intense twenty minutes). [I would advise anyone going through this to have more confidence in what got you to this point and not try to please any specific professor, though it's easier said than done.] It was very hard to listen to questions from different people on Zoom (it's hard to register the question in your mind when it goes so fast), and I even misunderstood one of the questions, which is very bad in general. The research project I proposed in the interview was theoretically interesting but not very viable because it would probably have no impact or core readership in the field. I'm not sure if this was a coincidence or not, but a couple days before I was accepted I actually sent an email with something I had been working on out of interest (related to digital humanities) —I don't know if this was significant or not.
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CS PhD: UC Berkeley vs UT Austin
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Yes, it is
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In my case, it's because there's a professor at Stanford I want to work with—and I actually think I can help with her research It really comes down to whether they can be honest with me about it or not. Hopefully my seminar papers and publications will be better than the actual PhD students'
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My cynical side has been thinking about this too, but it seems by my calculations it would take more than 5 MA students to fund 1 PhD student for five years, i.e., I'm only funding one year of someone's PhD, and they don't have nearly this many MA students. It's maybe enough to invite 2-3 people to speak at departmental events.
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Thank you so much—these were actually things I did not know. Do you think, also, that doing an unfunded masters looks worse when you apply for a PhD?
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I got into only the masters at Stanford (waitlisted for the Phd) and UW Madison (5-year funded at about 18k). This might sound crazy, but I think actually I will do the unfunded masters at Stanford—there is one professor I know pretty well. I am worried that I will not be as productive at Madison, and that they will not let me graduate in a reasonable time because they have such a demand for grad TA's (less than 30% of people graduate within 6 years). I might apply to Columbia MA (which is still open) to see if there's a significant difference
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Also, a random question—does anyone else find it interesting that the professors, in the interviews often go to tutoiement directly? I always say "vous" back to them, but is this awkward? Should you just try to avoid saying "you" altogether? I am not French, so sorry if this is obvious...
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Does anyone know anything about University of Wisconsin-Madison (besides the funding is terrible, which I'm sure is true)? I had already assumed they dropped off the planet, but I got an email today saying I was recommended for admission (without having talked to anyone there)
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I also cannot believe that these interviews seem to be extremely short. The Stanford panel interview seems to be 20 minutes. Does anyone have advice on how to structure the interview, and influence the topics (because clearly we cannot be comprehensive in this amount of time)?
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It's possible they're holding you in reserve in case none of the "finalists" work out? Based on past data, I believe they are only taking one person in French, and the way they choose is very mysterious to me. I was very surprised to get an interview. I think the problem is they need a plurality vote from the faculty, but their research areas are so disparate—how do you convince the faculty who are not in your area?
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Is anyone else interviewing at Stanford? I got an email asking me to fill out available times, but have not heard back yet (as you might be able to tell, I am very nervous/anxious about it)