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That's awful. I'm sorry to hear that. I would enter a formal complaint against the graduate school. Hang in there!

Thanks to all of the posters for all of your well-thought advises. I definitely need to get answers to all of my concerns. With that being said, my interest level to work this particular PoI remains high. Comments and thoughts on this matter are still welcome!

The assistant prof in question joined the university in 2008. I am still confused about this tenure review. 1) Is there any fixed timeline for pre-tenure (i.e., 5 years, 7 years, etc)? 2) How many tenure reviews a TT professor needs to "pass" to become a fully tenured professor? 3) Is it a sensitive issue to raise with potential PoI (i.e., pointing out to the possibility of me being mentorless if the PoI fails to get tenure)? 4) I am just trying to be cautious here. I am *very* interested to work with this PoI. I am just afraid to offend the PoI if I raise this issue; but it is a very important matter!! thoughts on this? Thanks

One of of the options I have involves a situation where I will be advised by an assistant professor. Several people told me to get *only* tenured professors as mentors. The thing is: 1) I really like this assistant professor's research (a great fit) 2) This assist. prof belongs to a GREAT program --if not the best--. 3) When asked about the possibility to be co-advised, the assist. prof is open to the idea. The down side would be: 1) The assist. prof may not get the tenure (what will happen to me?) Aside from this whole thing about tenure, I am really interested in working with this assist. prof. I'd appreciate any advice from GC members

That's bizzare! Hopefully you'll get acceptance(s) from your top schools! There are ways to express level of enthusiasm in attending a school. One would be: In the "thank you" email that you write for each interviewer, dont forget to reaffirm your interest in attending his/her program. This may remove any doubt on their part. Well, at least you received personalized rejection letters. I got those generic ones

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That's awful!! Sorry to hear that denshaSai. I truly hope you'll get accepted at Purdue.

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