Unanswered Questions
101 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a book equivalent to « Good work if you can get: How to succeed in academia » but for European / UK academia?
I found Jason Brennan’s book very useful when applying to my PhD and planning long term about my academic career.
However I am doing my PhD in Europe and although I’d like to explore US academia at ...
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How would graduate studies in Japan differ from those in the US, specifically for mathematics?
I have decided to make an academic transition from Electrical and Electronics Engineering into Mathematics after graduation. Although my first degree is from an Asian country it is a well accredited ...
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Do EPSRC-like Centres for Doctoral Training exist outside the UK?
I'm looking into starting a doctorate next Autumn and am currently exploring my options. I really like the program style of EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training which started sprouting around British ...
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Where do graduates in Chemistry from small PhD programs in the U.S go?
I am gathering information about the universities I intend to apply later this year and I've noticed that even in small graduate programs, most faculty members come from top universities such as ...
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How to explain a recent bad semester to graduate school admissions?
I am an international student with a 3.7 US equivalated GPA. I applied to a grad school program in the US fresh out of undergrad and was accepted.
I was a part-time student at that grad school. ...
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Applied Mathematics to Neuroscience Transition?
I am currently studying Applied Mathematics in a university in Bangladesh. I have always been deeply interested in psychology and neuroscience. I want to complete my degree in Applied Mathematics and ...
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Will university marks/qualifications obtained during the pandemic largely through online assessment hold reduced value as we progress back to normal?
Do you think when we reach a point where students/graduates can be separated into pre-covid, during covid, post-covid, that the world - for the purposes of postgraduate admissions, employment - will ...
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Whether to submit mixed GRE scores?
I wrote the GRE recently and got very divergent scores. I scored exceptionally high in Verbal reasoning (168/170, which is 98th percentile) but exceptionally low in quantitative reasoning (147/170, ...
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Do graduate school admissions look at first grade of a repeated course in the undergraduate transcript?
I wanted to know if graduate school admissions committees(specifically for Computer Science) look at all the grades for a repeated course (re-taken once after freshman year) even though all grades ...
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Employment Contract Negotiation and Graduate School (Computer Science)
Is it possible to negotiate employment contracts to include sponsorship for graduate school? For example, accepting the job and school on the terms that the job will pay for Master's and I would be ...
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MS/PhD Pass Qualifying Exam and Finding an Advisor
There are three outcomes in my department's qualifying exam: PhD pass, Master's pass, and fail. I am fairly certain that I will not PhD pass and will only Master's pass. I still have a chance to ...
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Bad Relationship with Master's Supervisor: Missing Reference
I'm in the situation that I'm completing my master's research degree and I'm in the process of applying to several applied mathematics / computational science programs.
Here's me complaining:
I do ...
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If the Lab has two PIs, Should I send my cold email to both of them?
I am interested in joining a lab that has two principal investigators, Should I CC the other person in the first cold email I am sending?
Ps, their family name is the same, so the mail would still be ...
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Changing Subfields after PhD in psychology
I am trying to understand the degree of difficulty that a psychologist might experience changing subdisciplines (excluding clinical/school/industrial-organizational). For example, could someone who is ...
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How can I pursue academic side interests during my PhD?
I've come out of undergrad (during COVID, too) with a degree in science, unsatisfied with my general knowledge and work ethic outside of the sciences. I especially regret not pursuing a minor in a ...
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