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Including divorce in CV
No.
I understand you are trying to get the equivalent of a golf handicap, with the hope that you will be evaluated on your potential and not your actual production. The problem with that approach is ...
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Including divorce in CV
No, I would say this is unlikely to reflect well on you. There's a chance you might get someone sympathetic to your situation. However, it very well may also reflect badly on you - the person reading ...
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Including divorce in CV
Nope.
Your prospective employer doesn't need to know this and generally you want to avoid providing any superfluous information that could be a cause to discriminate against you.
That's not to mention ...
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Meaning of "Higher Education Entrance Qualification" in the application form of a german university
To study at a German university, you need a particular kind of qualification called Hochschulzugangsberechtigung. And yes, German universities will ask for that even if you have already obtained other ...
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Interpreting the statement "We received an extremely strong pool of applications this year." in US grad school decision letters
It is a generic statement used when declining admission to soften the blow.
That said, admissions tends to be fairly stochastic, so yes, admissions next year will be both more and less competitive. ...
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Interpreting the statement "We received an extremely strong pool of applications this year." in US grad school decision letters
Unfortunately this is most probably a generic statement, which does not make it less true. Funding at almost all grad schools is usually short and not all candidates who would deserve funding very ...
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How to find research opportunities in humanities?
It is common to "volunteer" as a research assistant in my field (not humanities), although this is generally something undergraduate students do. I think whether or not these "...
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Does a teaching assistant position improve your PhD application?
I don't think there can be a general answer to this. Ways to admit PhD students can be quite heterogeneous, also within the EU. Particularly there are situations in which it is mainly up to the ...
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Transferring PhD due to Colleague Harassment
"Transfers" of PhD students aren't really a thing (at least not in the US), with some rare exceptions like students following an advisor who has taken a job at another institution, where ...
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Giving recommandation contact for applying to a PhD: How does it work?
These kinds of professional requests from an institution to a faculty member can never demand response in less than a couple of weeks—professors just don’t work on that kind of time scale. So I wouldn’...
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Transferring PhD due to Colleague Harassment
To add to the excellent answer by @Brian Krause, which mostly deals with the issue of transferring. I want to address the issue of the harassment.
"Harassment" is a loaded word that brings ...
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Interpreting the statement "We received an extremely strong pool of applications this year." in US grad school decision letters
This is a risk-management response used by all major corporate institutions
To augment the other answers here, let me give the realist (cynic?) view:
Because of the existence of various employment ...
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Assessing the Strength of my Graduate School Application
Your professors are right -- all of them. The problem seems to be that you are thinking of graduate school as an extension of college, as if it were just another level up the chain. The difference ...
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What should I do if I get multiple PhD offers?
Ultimately, this boils down to individual circumstances and is hard to answer. In German, there is a proverb: "a sparrow in your hand is more valuable than a dove on the roof", meaning it is ...
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