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What should I do if my university accepted too many first year grad students and now not everyone can find a pi/permanent lab?
The university accepted way too many students and now about 25% of the cohort is having to do additional rotations because it seems like the school does not have enough PIs or mentors to take on ...
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What is the effect of F grades caused by administrative errors on graduate schools? [closed]
Last year, I went to exchange credit with another university. During course registration, I applied for a graduate class in another department by purely clicking mistake. I explained that the school ...
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Department not allowing me to take courses from another department even though everyone else is allowed
I am a graduate student here. There are two set of rules applying to the degree I am seeking:
rules from the university
rules from my department
Using the above sets of rules, you have to make a ...
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What is a "good" PhD dropout rate, and how would we know?
In a few questions/answers on here (e.g., here), passing reference has been made to the difficulty of determining a good/acceptable/healthy dropout rate for a PhD program. However, I haven't seen any ...
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What are the major differences between PhD programs in mathematics and PhD programs in other STEM fields?
I am currently two years into a math PhD program at a mid-tier state school. I read a lot of advice about getting a STEM PhD on the Internet, but a lot of it seems very inapplicable to mathematics. I ...
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What is a "graduate school"?
Specifically, why do some universities have a defined "graduate school" and associated "graduate faculty," with separate appointment process, and some do not, even when they offer many graduate ...
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Can a student seek redress for the administration neglecting their paperwork?
(Breakdown of a larger issue - full story here)
Following the (delayed) approval of my thesis paperwork by my professor, the review staff of my small (~20 grad students?) department took weeks to ...
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