Timeline for Strategies for the selection of graduate programs for borderline/weak applicants (STEM)
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 21:10 | comment | added | Daniel K | "My guess is that the lowermost 10 schools may not even hire graduate students every year depending on the availability of resources/need for TAs." Remember that TAs are cheaper than professors. If there is a class to be taught it is always cheaper to hire a TA than a professor. So I'm not sure if your assumption is correct. The schools with less resources might actually have more TAs (and less professors) than schools with more resources. This is just a guess though, no data to back it up. My original advice still stands: apply to a range of schools, a few each at top, middle, bottom. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | user140322 | I am confident that your idea of applying to 10 lowermost schools would work well for undergraduate admissions. However, I doubt that this is a good strategy for graduate admissions because funding is involved. My guess is that the lowermost 10 schools may not even hire graduate students every year depending on the availability of resources/need for TAs. I could speculate that large departments that need many TAs in the 80-120 range may be safer bets than 190-200. However, I am asking this question precisely to find out about such things. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 2:02 | history | answered | Daniel K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |