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On schools that award advanced academic degrees, such as master's and doctoral degrees. This tag is mainly for questions about the structure and organization of a graduate school or the fundamental experience of being a graduate student. Do not use this tag for questions about research in graduate school (use [research] instead), coursework in graduate school (use [coursework]), gaining admissions to graduate school (use [graduate-admissions]), etc.

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My advisor wants me to quit the program. What should I do?

I would reevaluate what you are best at in terms of research skills and repivot to that. I will say from personal experience that I started a PhD in a more theoretical discipline 10 years ago. I strug …
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What is a "good" PhD dropout rate, and how would we know?

As a dropout, this may be an anecdote, but I have observed that myself and almost everyone else who dropped out did so because of personal reasons (health, marriage, children, financial, etc). There w …
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How common is it for women to drop out of graduate school because they have children?

I would suggest reading Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. While the book doesn't directly address academia, it talks about this topic more broadly. Just because you plan to have children in the future, doe …
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