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There's little influence in networking if you have nothing to show regarding your potential. A good GPA is necessary in admissions (in that a low GPA will keep you out of schools), but it says nothing of your research capabilities. There's no reason a professor should and would place preference towards a student trying to network with them when the the ability to do research is so idiosyncratic. Get some experience under your belt. Do well in whatever opportunity you're given to do research with a professor. Impress the professor. Once that happens, then you have some leverage to network with potential future advisors. Until then, any attempts to network will be discounted since too many starry-eyed undergrads have no idea what they're getting themselves into and the signal-to-information ratio is near 0 until those individuals can provide evidence of research potential.

As someone doing their PhD in a business/social science field, I have a lot of respect for you in STEM disciplines.

Well, that's awesome. I wonder what the backend programming is and whether it's susceptible to freezing your computer's date/time. Regardless, I watched the video demo and it was basically a streamlined version of everything I already do. When I write a manuscript, I definitely develop my ideas in blocks that may or may not be related to each other, and I edit/arrange everything once I'm done writing. This means I have a dozen of .doc files with a section or a few paragraphs that I have to open at once to begin the stitching-together process. The demonstration was literally everything I've wanted in a writing platform for years. I should get paid for shilling their product.

TIL about Scrivener. That's $40 of my research budget well-spent, I must say.

I usually just have oelek on hand since it's cheaper. You can probably find belacan if you live near a Chinese/Asian supermarket (which are found in all the big cities in the US).

I hardly ever eat ramen anymore, but when I was an undergrad, I'd always add a handful of baby spinach, a soft-boiled egg, sambal (garlic chili paste), and some type of light protein (typically shredded chicken, tofu, etc.) or some mushrooms (enoki are great as a meaty garnish added late in the soup). If you have your own broth, then even better. All you need is water and mirepoix (carrots, onions, celery) and anything else you want to help flavor the soup (pork/beef/chicken bones for meat broth; shrimp shells for a shrimp broth; mushrooms [particularly the stems], etc.). You control the amount of salt instead of relying on the overpowering flavor powder/bouillon included in the packets. Likewise, ramen can be use to make yakiramen (a la yakisoba). Toss it in a very thin pan (woks work great) with vegetable oil (olive tends to burn) with as high a flame you can get and saute your vegetables/meats/ramen. If you use too low a heat, your ingredients won't saute and will instead steam and get gross. Add your favorite sauce (teriyaki, oyster, hoisin, etc.) and get a little bit of a char (optional if you're worried of carcinogens) if you want to get a really nice caramelized taste and texture on your stir fry.

However the OP did ask, "Are these salaries skewed by the money-making STEM faculty?" And still, to some of you doing formal modeling/game theory for your research, business schools have been known to hire PoliSci grads straight out of their doctorate: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/Diermeier_Daniel.aspx#vita http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/Feddersen_Timothy.aspx#vita

http://www.aeaweb.org/gradstudents/Schools.php Shoot for an 800. 700 would be considered low; 760 may be considered the threshold for many PhD programs to be competitive. I don't know about MA programs. Take math. Audit a mathematical reasoning/proofs class and then see if you can handle Real Analysis. All the interests you mentioned are highly analytical and real analysis is a necessity to do that kind of work. This video series has been a wonderful refresher since I've gotten into graduate school. It should also serve as a decent first step into real analysis.

And here's an article (from ASU's business school) illustrating some of the points I addressed in the last post. It's from 2007, but for the most part, this trend has not been halted: http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1426

Following what Eigen said, Business Schools have not given up on trying to compete with industry compensation. B-schools have experienced the problem with too many of its doctorates going to industry to consult for much higher pay ($200k+ is reasonable starting for a Business PhD), which have led to more clinical/executive professors having to fill in what would normally be tenure-track research faculty positions. The AACSB (our business school accrediting board) required a B-school to have 1/2 its full-time faculty to hold PhDs, so this has been driving up demand for doctorates as older faculty are now retiring at increased rates. Marketing salary has increased from something like average $90k/year to $130k/year starting salary since 2000 or so.

http://docsig.org/index.php/who-went-were/who-went-where-and-salary-surveys Starting assistant professors in marketing (across all schools) make on average $130,000/year. Elite school median starting salary is around $165,000-$180,000/year.

I went to Office Max and just tried every single one of their chairs. I ended up getting mine for under $200, and it's done a great job for days I'm sitting down for 12-14 hours.

In Social Psych, etc., though, a Stanford/Michigan/Ohio State undergrad really has little reason to go elsewhere unless it's another formidable university since they're at what's generally considered the top-top of the discipline.

Once you're a graduate student, start looking for travel grants and subsidies provided by your department and graduate school. I've gotten a little over $1,000 as a first year in travel funding and some of the older students have gotten around $2,000.

When your advisor is convinced you're mature and knowledgeable enough. It's a little too idiosyncratic to figure this a priori.

Possible, but your options will likely be limited to less competitive schools.

$50 would be on the extreme low end for my field. The average application fee was $75-$125/school (not counting GMAT/GRE, Transcripts, etc.).

Not to sound like a dick, but where do you think the money comes from to finance the costs of setting up these conferences?

Buy an intro to mathematical proofs/reasoning book and get well-acquainted with it.

Is evolutionary psychology experimental!??!

You'll probably have access to servers and clusters anyway. If you can batch process, don't even worry about having crazy specs.

In short, definitely not. Source: everything that's said here by current students and practicing clinical psychologists.

Yeah, like I mentioned in another forum, this is around the time I heard back from Wharton saying I got accepted off the waitlist. Some schools (even top ones) don't contact their admits until later in admissions.

Like I mentioned earlier, I think the underlying assumption in these posts is we're talking about students in research-intensive PhD programs whom are fully-funded. Masters students should and are usually expected to work since working doesn't have such a direct impinging effect on your career (as opposed to doing more research and securing more grants/publications).

Sounds like waiting lists.