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Oct 13, 2011 at 16:59 comment added Tom Leinster I'm in Glasgow, also in the UK, and am one of the people responsible for PhD admissions. I agree with almost everything Neil says. I wouldn't go as far as saying that we ignore the "research plan" box, but we take it with a big pinch of salt. Suppose you describe a possible project on, say, modelling of insect outbreaks in North America. This would help guide us towards the best choice of supervisor, but you'd have absolutely no obligation to actually do that project. We know that before you've started your PhD, you're not usually well-positioned to judge what a good PhD project will be.
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Oct 12, 2011 at 12:06 comment added Thierry Zell +1 for pointing out that, in many cases, applications have to jump through more university-level administrative hoops than departmental-level ones.
Oct 12, 2011 at 11:05 history answered Neil Strickland CC BY-SA 3.0