究竟phd申請是偏愛master还是小本？

非常困惑！

It is true that a specific professor's view a lot matters during admission. In certain schools, if one professor wants a specific student, it is very hard for the admission office to reject such a request. But the admission office has much more power generally because most of applicants cannot attract a specific professor’s attention so strongly during the admission process so that the  professor becomes willing to make such requests. In other words, the admission office matters the most because professors, most of the time, don’t care so much about a specific applicant during the whole process of admission.

So to an average applicant, don’t count on professors too seriously if one is not outstandingly excellent.

The key indicator is your academic ability such as published papers but not your degrees. That is a B.S. with several strong papers published is of course better than a master with nothing published, assuming everything else is the same.

However, the case I stated is not a common case. Usually, people with masters have better background than people with B.S., assuming other things such as intelligent levels are similar. The reason are too obvious, I don't want to waste my time on listing them.

In short, to an average applicant, thus, a master is much better than a B.S. because of the academic ability or certificates one has built up.

这个说不准，有些教授喜欢白纸就偏爱小本，拿了master再申请对你之前的research有更高的expectation。。

wjkaka 发表于 2013-1-5 20:21
这个说不准，有些教授喜欢白纸就偏爱小本，拿了master再申请对你之前的research有更高的expectation。。

你今年是就申了stanford的ME么?

看教授吧

163 发表于 2013-1-5 21:51
你今年是就申了stanford的ME么?

申了6所的

zheng18552 发表于 2013-1-6 02:37
It is true that a specific professor's view a lot matters during admission. In certain schools, if o ...

谢谢你的回复！

wjkaka 发表于 2013-1-5 20:21
这个说不准，有些教授喜欢白纸就偏爱小本，拿了master再申请对你之前的research有更高的expectation。。

嗯 早知道就好好念本科就好了

wjkaka 发表于 2013-1-5 20:21
这个说不准，有些教授喜欢白纸就偏爱小本，拿了master再申请对你之前的research有更高的expectation。。

嗯 早知道就好好念本科就好了

我觉得这个还是因教授而异的