看自己的风险偏好,现在的情况是越来越难,没有什么是一定的. 我个人的偏见是不要做.
"Do some simple maths. Each PhD cohort has around 24 people, half of which are predocs. The other half consists of Euro masters+random internationals+top 5 undergrad direct to PhD. So you have 12 predoc slots per school. Each top 5 school has around 50 predocs. What do you think your chances are?"
而我的 cents 在这里的是 "众所周知,top5有七所"