Timeline for How to/Can you get a PhD position when you need more experience first?
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 1:48 | comment | added | wires | Ha :-) Great comments everyone... thanks! | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 1:45 | history | edited | wires | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
thanking the answerers and bit more info on current status
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| Feb 25, 2011 at 16:36 | comment | added | John Sidles | I would suggest a PhD degree in applied math and/or biosimulation. The following career history will be familiar to many. Undergraduate major in history, minor in linguistics: did not pursue further. Worked as a political operative for a losing campaign. Grad school in economics: dropped out. Grad school in applied math: dropped major. Grad school in physics: received PhD, found tenure-track job following two post-docs, but ultimately was denied tenure eleven years post-PhD. That student's name: Edward Witten. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 16:54 | answer | added | klaraspina | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 14:49 | comment | added | Zoran Skoda | I understood that she was in almost no math BA program. By indication that she ahas a hard time in getting good grades in MA program I suppose the MA program is closer to math. But what is really her MA program about, this is not clear to me from the description, and it seems relevant. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 2:31 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 2:06 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 1:05 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | You left out an important detail, which is geography: where is this taking place? How far would she be willing to move to do a PhD (including another continent)? etc. All these are huge factors. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 0:21 | answer | added | Kevin H. Lin | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:46 | comment | added | Deane Yang | She needs to consult someone who is realistic but more supportive than her advisor. It is not true that taking an extra year or two (or three) to study will reduce her chances. In fact, if she can afford the cost, I would encourage her to take as much time as she needs before applying to and entering a Ph.D. program to develop her mathematical knowledge and skills as much as possible before starting the Ph.D. program. To me the time matters far less than her strength when she does enter the Ph.D. program. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:26 | answer | added | lhf | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:05 | history | edited | Unknown | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
edited title spelling
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| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:01 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 22:48 | answer | added | Andrew Lobb | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 22:32 | history | asked | wires | CC BY-SA 2.5 |