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Jan 11, 2014 at 10:28 history closed Will Jagy
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Jan 11, 2014 at 9:42 comment added Benoît Kloeckner This question seems to belong to academia.SE, try there.
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Jan 11, 2014 at 3:58 comment added KConrad Two weeks is typical, and that's plenty of time to speak to your adviser and get feedback from this site when there is something more concrete to ask about. If you wind up getting one postdoc offer and nothing else for the two weeks after that, then there wouldn't even be anything to ask about how to compare postdoc offers (other than deciding between that offer and pursuing a non-academic track). In short, I think this question is coming too early in the process for you.
Jan 11, 2014 at 3:35 comment added hithere @KConrad I was planning to ask my advisor when I have concrete offers. Maybe I'm making this up, but I think that one can guess the rough level of schools that you are going to get offers from (assuming that if you're Harvard level, a middle-of-nowhere university won't bother giving you an offer - is this true?). Since one only gets two weeks to decide, I wanted to at least have a rough idea in advance. I feel that I have no real preference between schools of similar caliber at the moment. Do you think that this is unnecessary?
Jan 11, 2014 at 3:29 comment added KConrad Have you asked your Ph.D. adviser this yet? He or she will know your situation better than strangers on the internet. Besides, in most cases you'll have at most a few offers, in which case the specific features of those schools would outweigh for you any generalities that could be suggested. This question is probably better asked after you have concrete offers (it's not as if you'd be asked to make a decision in a day or two from the school).
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