gapa Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 With your acceptances so far, did you experience upward or downward mobility (your grad department ranking compared to undergrad department)? And do you think this reflects your relative position in your undergrad class (say top students experience upward mobility, while not so top students downward? And another unrelated question: what percentage of PhDs are from the top10 departments out of the total pool of PhDs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxiousapplicant Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 From my school, you can only move up. Excuse me, you can only move up if grad schools allow you to move up, which is a massive if. Sorry, I'm really bitter this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobb Cobb Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 (edited) Upward by a couple hundred, seriously. Edited February 19, 2010 by Bobb Cobb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowshoes Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I think you're probably going to have to control for those on the extreme ends and only use results from those in the middle. I mean, someone from a Top 5 undergrad reallhy can't do anything but maintain their position or move down, and someone from the no-ranks can either not get in anywhere or move up. I'm not sure you can include all of these people in the same group. For all of those schools in the middle, though, it is interesting to see mobility based on position within the current department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsams Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 If I go with first acceptance, technically "down", but I don't consider it a downshift. It is a much smaller department that is totally underrated - even my profs here say that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poli90 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Quite a good upward movement. And yes, obviously doing well relative to the rest of your undergrad class is going to increase your odds of upward mobility. The question of mobility is also somewhat moot for people coming from top LACs which are unranked for PhD's but consistently place students to top PhD programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brouhaha Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I go to an unranked public school and I'm being considered for an MA at an Ivy, so very much upward. Of course I have yet to actually get in anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natofone Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I went to a 4th-tier undergrad and got into a top 30 program and waitlisted at one right around 20, so I guess that I moved up quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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