Timeline for Applying to a school with a new PhD program
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| Apr 10, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | JeffE | @graphtheory123 People, definitely; institutions, less so—especially if you include yourself as "people". The biostatisticians at Georgetown and Maryland are well-established; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to start a PhD program! | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | nsinghphd | @graphtheory123 they can but not as much as what you have to offer. Your advisor can probably introduce you to other faculty or company, but if you don't have what they are looking for, then there is no point. That being said, your advisor's connection can come in handy for the collaborations. That is one big benefit of having a supervisor who has connections. Sometime you can find a project that you want to work on but your supervisor directly do not have expertise in that, but one of your supervisor's collaborator does. In that case you can always find a way to work on the project. | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | graphtheory123 | Don't the people and institutions your advisor has connections matter a great deal? | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 15:31 | history | answered | nsinghphd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |