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How much influence do individual professor have on grad admissions? [duplicate]
Say I have emailed a professor a few times, and told him I would like to work with him for my PhD etc. and that professor is interested:
How much of a factor could this possibly be in my application?
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Can a student with a weak or average undergraduate math GPA realistically become a professor?
I just finished my second year of undergraduate studies as a double major in computer engineering and mathematics at the University of Iowa. Although I came in believing that I wanted to become a ...
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What's the point of maintaining a CV after tenure?
Once you have tenure, presumably you're never going to have to search for a job again. However almost all professors have a CV on their website, and fairly recent ones. Why? They already made it.
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Math Adjunct Professor positions and salary in a big city
From searching online, I see that the salaries for math adjunct professors are about 36k. That's insanely low for New York City standards. An undergraduate business school student that graduates from ...
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What does it mean when a department has 'retired professors' as part of their faculty? Can I still work with them?
What exactly does this mean? Could I do work with them? If not, why are they listed there? I am confused!
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Why are there some really young professors and other much older lecturers without professor status?
I was just wondering how this is possible, there are some 50+ year old people who are 'Dr. X Y', and others who are maybe "only" 40 years old , but they are 'Professor Dr. X Y'.
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How should a student deal with personal criticisms from an assistant professor?
I am a PhD student. In the past I have met with an assistant professor for some general advice about my research, both times he has made off the cuff comments on my lack of competence as a researcher ...
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Moving from government research to academia
I am a mid-career scientist at a government research organisation, and I am considering a move back into academia. My current employer is looking after me very well and I know I am valued, but I have ...
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Professor ranking system
It is commonly accepted that professorship is the final rank of promotion in universities. I would like to study the possibility for promoting professors further. Is there any grading or ranking ...
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What are the salary bands specifically for lecturer/senior lecturer/reader/professor in the UK?
This question is related to this question Academic position salaries in the UK (and to some extent to this question too: Academic rank equivalence between the UK and the US systems), but my question ...
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Academic rank equivalence between the UK and the US systems
What are the US equivalent ranks to the Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader (or Associate Prof), Professor ranks of the UK system?
Is it correct that in the US system they are Assistant Prof, Associate ...
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There is some indication that I am not that good at teaching – should I still strive to become a professor?
Since I was an undergraduate I have been a tutor many times, either a drop-in tutor or a private tutor. However, somehow these students politely turned away from me for reasons I do not know. In all ...
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How does a recognized and well-known Professor help his students in getting an academic job?
It is often told that working under big shots (I mean, recognized professors) in a particular research field is always beneficial on the way towards getting a faculty job in top research universities (...
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US PhD to Developing Country Professorship
So I was listening to this story on The Moth about a woman who earned a degree in Egypt and then an advanced degree in England and then went back to Zimbabwe to be a professor at local university: ...
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How common is redundancy in the British (UK/Australia/NZ/Ireland) system?
The British permanent faculty system seems to differ from the US tenured system mainly in that in the former the management can 'fire' one on the basis of redundancy (What is the difference between ...
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