Timeline for Is it okay to explore other grad school options while deferring admission for other reasons?
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:49 | history | edited | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:40 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Fear not, I’m not addressing your reasons to defer in the first place - those are yours alone, and different people will have different reasons. But, I see too many questions here about changing to get into a ‘better’ school, with little thought given to what makes it ‘better’ - some random ranking does not make it better. You appear to have thought through it a bit more, so keep thinking! | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | But considering you are having some sort of personal issue - you may not be able to improve your situation that much next cycle | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Well, it would depend on how happy I was with the school. Declining and reapplying is fine IMO. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:38 | comment | added | pretzlstyle | @AzorAhai So what are you saying you would do, just not apply elsewhere and take the admission next year? It may be worth mentioning that I've also read through this thread which seems to be a little more forgiving than you, though my situation is a bit different. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:37 | history | edited | pretzlstyle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:35 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @Anonymous Personally, I would not do this (and I have considered that I may defer next year, check my Q history), it strikes me as rude and very uncool, but I'll let a person on the other side of admission answer. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:33 | comment | added | pretzlstyle | @AzorAhai I'm not sure. The personal reasons are truly the reason for the deferral, so I should tell them that. At the same time, yes it does seem to be taking advantage of their generosity to then fill out more applications. But, seeing as I would like to defer, it seems foolish not to at least try to see what other opportunities I may have. I would be nervous of trying to explain that to the department, though. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | pretzlstyle | @JonCuster Well if you're talking about my reasons for wanting to defer in the first place, that is a different story, which is very long and involves drama and sadness and hospitals... So that is beside the point. I'm not deferring in order to apply to better programs, I think I might defer regardless for personal reasons, and figured that if I am doing that then I may as well try my hand elsewhere and open up the future a bit. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:26 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | It does seem unethical to tell a school you're deferring for very important personal reasons (I believe you), but to use their generosity - they don't like having one fewer student now and one extra next year - to boost your GRE score and go somewhere else. Would you really feel comfortable messaging the graduate student advisor and telling them exactly this? | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:20 | comment | added | Jon Custer | While it is possible that a GRE score was the sole reason, that is not guaranteed by any means. Living options (and work options) for partners is a good reason, at least to me. But, just trying to get into a ‘better’ school, where ‘better’ is not well defined, isn’t. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:16 | comment | added | pretzlstyle | @JonCuster It's just that my GRE score is the only thing that held me back from getting into a bunch of other schools as well as this one. So, if I'm deferring for a year, I feel that I may as well take it again and see what happens. I'd be interested in being able to have more living situations as options for the next 5 years, as would my partner. The city that I did get into is nice, but we probably wouldn't live there otherwise. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | Jon Custer | I would suspect that departments have an estimated probability of deferred students not ultimately enrolling. There could be many reasons why. But, if you are happy with this school, what do you think is a good reason to go somewhere else instead? And is that reason real or imagined? | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:24 | history | asked | pretzlstyle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |