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发信人: Feynman (窗外), 信区: Abroad 标题: Re: 关于USA PhD的申请问题发信站: 珞珈山水 (Fri Jan 7 04:22:51 2011), 站内 Yes, professors will generally consider students who have had some research experience in the past and have a clear idea of what they want to do. Whether you gain the experience as an undergrad or master student does not matter. Since you are asking this question on bbs, I think it\'s reasonable to assume that you don\'t have much research experience in the past, and this will definitely be a disadvantage in your application. You have many different ways to earn this experience. For example, you can do an internship in some research institutions, or you can do a masters, or you can even get into a PhD program and try to transfer a few years later. To answer your question specifically: 1. No research experience is a big disadvantage of course, but without it you can still get into some schools. So don\'t worry too much about this, just do the best you can. 2. Yes. Graduating with a PhD in a > 100 school will probably not get you very far if you want to find a faculty job in a reasonable US school, unless your boss is particularly well-known. 3. If you decide that you want to do a masters first, I think you should vastly upgrade the level of schools you apply. It\'s WAY easier than PhD application. You can only apply to top 50 schools, and try a few top 20 or even top 10 schools. 【在 kevinlansong 的大作中提到: 】 : 谢谢你！我目前申请的都是phd,但是前几天收到个教授的邮件，说的是招博士一般考虑有研究生经历的学生。可是很多学校鼓励本科生直接申博的啊，这岂不是跟教授那边有矛盾了？ : 我的目标也是faculty,但现在突然感觉申请很是渺茫，而且，自己在申请中也是要求获得资助，不过，我申请的学校没有top 20的，我想，这样是不是竞争稍微会小一些呢。 : 不知道排名100以后或者90左右的学校，phd读了是不是好转faculty,自己现在在纠结是不是把这些学校改为申请master -- ※ 来源:·珞珈山水 http://bbs.whu.edu.cn·[FROM: 128.91.223.*]
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发信人: Feynman (窗外), 信区: Abroad
标题: Re: 关于USA PhD的申请问题
发信站: 珞珈山水 (Fri Jan 7 04:22:51 2011), 站内

Yes, professors will generally consider students who have had some research experience in the past and have a clear idea of what they want to do. Whether you gain the experience as an undergrad or master student does not matter. Since you are asking this question on bbs, I think it\'s reasonable to assume that you don\'t have much research experience in the past, and this will definitely be a disadvantage in your application. You have many different ways to earn this experience. For example, you can do an internship in some research institutions, or you can do a masters, or you can even get into a PhD program and try to transfer a few years later.
To answer your question specifically:
1. No research experience is a big disadvantage of course, but without it you can still get into some schools. So don\'t worry too much about this, just do the best you can.
2. Yes. Graduating with a PhD in a > 100 school will probably not get you very far if you want to find a faculty job in a reasonable US school, unless your boss is particularly well-known.
3. If you decide that you want to do a masters first, I think you should vastly upgrade the level of schools you apply. It\'s WAY easier than PhD application. You can only apply to top 50 schools, and try a few top 20 or even top 10 schools.

【在 kevinlansong 的大作中提到: 】
: 谢谢你！我目前申请的都是phd,但是前几天收到个教授的邮件，说的是招博士一般考虑有研究生经历的学生。可是很多学校鼓励本科生直接申博的啊，这岂不是跟教授那边有矛盾了？
: 我的目标也是faculty,但现在突然感觉申请很是渺茫，而且，自己在申请中也是要求获得资助，不过，我申请的学校没有top 20的，我想，这样是不是竞争稍微会小一些呢。
: 不知道排名100以后或者90左右的学校，phd读了是不是好转faculty,自己现在在纠结是不是把这些学校改为申请master

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