Timeline for PhD application asking what other insitution I am applying to, how to answer?
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| Jan 5, 2017 at 15:11 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | No need to be flat-out adversarial about it. The same end is accomplished by simply leaving it blank. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 23:15 | comment | added | JeffE | It may be in the admissions committee's best interest, but it is definitely not in your best interest to suggest to any admissions committee that you'd rather go elsewhere. Be selfish! | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 12:19 | comment | added | Naresh | You should not typically apply to 6+ universities without having a safety. So the rare case which you are worried about is well covered. In addition, waiting lists have been found to be very unwieldy especially for international students. I know of cases where an international student got an admit from waitlist a week before his course started. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 8:53 | comment | added | Herman Toothrot | But the point is that nothing is guaranteed, so if you list 5/6 institutions, then one likes your application but doesn't make an offer because they think you will not accept, and then you don't get any other offers, at this point it would have been better not to list anything and at least you would have got one offer. It sounds like this is only unethical if the student doesn't say but it's ok for the university. That's what waiting lists are for, they just should be made more efficient. It seems the admission commitee is just speculating on where you might be admitted. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 6:59 | comment | added | Naresh | I think it matters that you'd tell them. So that they won't have to waste their admit on you, if you were set on going elsewhere, possibly due to a better fit for your work. It makes admissions easier for them as well as for you. I'd rather have that a student gets into one of the programs at his top programs of choice and rejected at others, as compared to a few students getting 7+ admits while the rest don't even have a chance. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 6:00 | history | answered | JeffE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |