Ph.D 有没有直接联系教授审材料的啊？？

人生_海海UID: 2773970

2012Fall Ph.D 原本没计划TC（之前联系过几个 大多是模板回复 没啥效果）
但刚FSU小秘回信说国际学生（Ph.D）应该直接联系感兴趣的教授，他们每天都在审材料。。

1. 我之前做的网申、送的成绩都干毛用啊？？系里的committee不负责审材料么？
2. Ph.D不套磁或不联系教授，能被录取的概率怎么样？这种直接联系教授审材料的情况普遍么？

求前辈指点。。

Fruit~UID: 2559265

COMMITTEE管录取的, 套的意仪不是特别大, 文科很多都这样. 每年不套上TOP 10文科PHD的一堆. 理工的不了解

长安小鱼UID: 2677511

除非你的背景牛得不需要陶瓷，否则陶瓷十分关键！
陶瓷有流转乾坤的作用！
你想啊，如果一个教授想招学生，就凭几张纸ps,cv就能判断你的态度和积极性以及潜力？你发邮件，至少说明你的态度问题。PS里写的天花乱坠，教授也不能确定是不是别人帮你写的。换句话说，两个差不多的学生，教授肯定选和他联系过，交流过的。对不对？

Fruit~UID: 2559265

除非你的背景牛得不需要陶瓷，否则陶瓷十分关键！
陶瓷有流转乾坤的作用！
你想啊，如果一个教授想招学生，就凭几张纸ps,cv就能判断你的态度和积极性以及潜力？你发邮件，至少说明你的态度问题。PS里写的天花乱坠， ...
长安小鱼 发表于 2012-1-10 01:23

对于COMMITTEE制的, 你连哪个PROFESSOR进COMMITTEE都不知道, 还套啥? 总不见得第一句话就是"请问, 你直接管录取吗?".

PS不能确定是申请人写的, 那写个EMAIL人平啥就信是申请人自己写的?

LS把套词说得那么牛, 还不如攒点RP教教别人怎么个套法.

hotwxn711UID: 3085830

Sorry I don have a Chinese Input Method.

Normally, there are three kinds of admission mechanisms.
1. Completely Committee Based. In CS, most of top 10 schools are using this kind of system,
i.e., only people in admission committee decide who to admit and individual faculty members
do not influence the admission (Even if they can, they normally do not want to). This kind of
system is possible because the department have enough money to support PhD students during
their first or even second year of study. Thus in this system, it is even possible that you
are admitted without a potencial supervisor assigned, and you will find a supervisor with
good match during your first year of study.

2. "Committee Based". Lots of schools are in this catagory, actually. Admission is still
committee based, but they normally ask individual faculty memebers's opinions who are
interested in you or who you are specified as the potencial supervisors. Cause most
likely your fundings are gonna come from your potencial supervisor. The department
only have funding to supports parts of students and thus still needs to rely on profs.

3. "Fake Committee Based". They may still have admission committee. But individual faculty
members read those applications that they are interested and decide whether or not
to admit to his/her own group.

I think LouZhu's case it the third one. When you apply, you should at least go through
the whole faculty members' homepages to see whether they have any good information for the
prospective students. Normally, they reveal pretty much useful information. And some
profs even clearly indicates that you should contact him/her individually.

I do not want to say much on "TAOCI".  Wish you good luck on your application.

hotwxn711UID: 3085830

Another tip:
There is no individual format on how schools admit students, let alone TAOCI.
So please try to make use of every piece of information available for you.
Don't simply follow what others do to save time.

mokpoUID: 2408505

有的文科系教授很少 一般就组成一个招生委员会

人生_海海UID: 2773970

3# 长安小鱼
非常感谢！！今天收到小秘回复，感觉Ph.D真心不好搞啊  还是TC吧
“You don't have to contact them yourself. But I have found it helpful that the applicant has contacted the faculty by email introducing themselves. We get so many applications it might help and would not hurt to contact them by email. But as I said you donot have to this.”

人生_海海UID: 2773970

4# Fruit~
之前申Arizona 教授说先通过系里审核再联系她（很瞎的TC 呵呵）
anyway, it would not hurt to contact them by email 有时间还是可以一试的

人生_海海UID: 2773970

7# mokpo
谢斑竹！！

Fruit~UID: 2559265

4# Fruit~  
之前申Arizona 教授说先通过系里审核再联系她（很瞎的TC 呵呵）
anyway, it would not hurt to contact them by email 有时间还是可以一试的
人生_海海 发表于 2012-1-10 10:48

关见还是自己有没有料, 没啥料的和对方套了1,2个来回就没啥了. 就象和老美一起玩一样, 人家的娱乐, 体育, 8卦你啥都不知道的, 想和他们玩基本也玩不到一起, 顶多就是打几声招呼, 玩玩表面功夫罢了.

长安小鱼UID: 2677511

陶瓷或多或少有postive的作用。但是陶瓷也是有技巧的，切不可总是骚扰教授。要说一些实际的东西，比如看看论文，请教问题之类的。具体的细节可以看看前辈们怎么做的。
RA是教授从自己的funding里拿出来给你的。教授如果肯帮你，TA和fellowship都容易一些。所以如果教授喜欢你，会从小蜜那里调你的材料，会特意关注你的。怎么让教授喜欢你呢？我觉得陶瓷还是很有帮助的。

twm_hillaryUID: 2539061

只能说有益无损吧，感觉在这个一奖难求的时候，任何一根稻草都不要放过。

另外，看论文本身也是个了解教授及其研究方向的过程，换句话说，也是去了解你以后要做的事情，何乐不为呢？

个人意见，我自己也在摸索中，仅供参考。

Good Luck!

orchidbirdUID: 2907539

亲身实践，觉得文科套磁意义不大。还是要走committee审核的路，我套磁过的教授就表示了一他很高兴和我的研究兴趣相似，肯定了一下我的申请背景还是值得试一下，但是很明确的说录取是COMMITTEE先决定录取那些学生，然后再由教授和学生互相选是不是match再定advisor。我觉得文科基本上都是这个套路，理科还能考虑是不是有个lab可以进。所以文科还是默默准备可能的面试，继续看书比较实际。

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5# hotwxn711
very nice