Timeline for I am able to self-fund a PhD, how can I use this when applying?
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| May 22, 2015 at 18:06 | vote | accept | Roger Fan | ||
| May 21, 2015 at 19:47 | history | edited | Roger Fan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @Roger: But as you can see from Anonymous Mathematician and me, many adcoms are very concerned about putting naive young people in a situation of financial hardship, and some people (like me) think that some adcoms should be more concerned about this than they are. I'm not criticizing your question in any way (I upvoted it, BTW): I'm just saying that certain issues are hard not to consider. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Roger Fan | @PeteL.Clark I guess it might be worth putting pointers to some of those answers in the question though. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 19:40 | comment | added | Roger Fan | @PeteL.Clark I just wanted this question to be more about how self-funding is viewed by adcoms and how it might benefit (or not) your application. Whether self-funding is a good idea is a separate question that has been addressed many times on this site already (e.g. here, here, and here). | |
| May 21, 2015 at 19:29 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | "or already know that they are willing to take on debt for them (disregard whether this is a good idea)." It is pretty hard to do that. Should we really advise people to do things that in our expert opinion could cause them long-term financial hardship? | |
| May 21, 2015 at 17:59 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 21, 2015 at 16:21 | answer | added | Eric | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 21, 2015 at 15:23 | comment | added | Roger Fan | @Rikki I was mostly thinking about US programs, but I think the question still stands for other countries. Since it's less taboo to self-fund, does that mean that it is more beneficial to mention self-funding in the application? | |
| May 21, 2015 at 8:42 | comment | added | Rikki | Are you talking about graduate studies in the US? In the UK, I get the impression that if you're good enough (good grades in first degree or relevant industrial experience), then it's quite easy to get accepted but funding is quite competitive. A number of people self fund, it's not really taboo. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 4:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/601247646251143168 | ||
| May 21, 2015 at 3:11 | answer | added | Kimball | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 20, 2015 at 17:08 | history | edited | Roger Fan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2015 at 17:06 | answer | added | Anonymous Mathematician | timeline score: 52 | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:43 | history | edited | Roger Fan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2015 at 16:37 | history | asked | Roger Fan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |