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Attending School X with Adviser at School Y


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Is this common? Looked down upon?

 

In particular, I'm thinking about attending a school in the NYC region that is very strong in logic but perhaps not quite as strong in another area that interests me.  I'm curious if -- down the line -- it could be a realistic option for me to try to get an adviser at another school in the disaster scenario that I don't want to do a dissertation in logic.

 

This would be something closer to a disaster scenario, and not a plan of mine going in, but I just wanted to make sure I know what I'm getting myself into beforehand.

 

PS -- It is assumed that X does not equal Y in the title :)

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I don't really think this happens too often, if it ever happens at all. You might be able to get someone else to be a reader and/or on your thesis committee, but to be your advisor seems difficult. 

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I agree with MattDest. It's quite common to have outside committee members, but I think it's much less common to have your main advisor be in a different department (unless that person starts advising you at your home department and then moves before you've finished the dissertation--in that case, I think it's not uncommon for the person to continue advising you). It doesn't seem like a plan you should bank on, even as a disaster scenario.

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The absolute only cases in which I've seen anything like this pulled off (as opposed to having them as your external examiner) is when your advisor is originally at school X (where you also are) and you're ABD. Then, advisor moves to school Y and works something out with the administration at school X in order to maintain their status as your advisor or chair.

 

This, though, doesn't mean you can't develop a working relationship with 'person at Y'--you probably should at least try to do so, but how successful you will be is a function of how famous 'person at Y' is and how good you (honestly) are and who you know who knows 'person at Y.'

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