关于MS和PhD的钱的问题，求教各位大虾

skenparboUID: 2437103

近日和一个美国教授通E-mail，他说让我最好先申MS，还说这样比直接申PHD要容易，小弟感觉这似乎与常识不符，特将邮件内容贴出，请各位帮忙解释一下~~

Most major professors that I know working in the area of ecology offer their graduate students assistantships because
they ask them to do a lot of work.  Assistantships are limited because most of us have to write grants to get them and it is difficult to get them funded.  If we provide an assistantship to a PhD candidate that is usually a 5 year commitment
and if we do not know the student well we may not want to take the chance of trying to support someone that long - not all graduate students and major professors work out together.  So most often they will rather provide an MS
assistantship and if the student works well they will offer a PhD.  Also if you get an MS in the US and do a good job it is usually easier to go on for a PhD because you already have proven yourself and have a major professor who will provide a good reference for you. If you were lucky enough to find a PhD assistantship you might find that you do not like the
project and then you are stuck with it for a long time.

关于MS和PHD的说法，似成常识，但却好像也找不现明晰的说法或总结，请牛人们赐教一下吧，不胜感激。

xieshuqiUID: 2198655

学校一般录取MS的要求比PhD低，所以会把申请者从PhD申请转成MS

skenparboUID: 2437103

这个转是自动的吗？

xieshuqiUID: 2198655

有的学校会通知你，有的自动了。。。

强夫UID: 2156262

我多么希望我是MS啊～～两下上完就走人了

xieshuqiUID: 2198655

读MS的也很郁闷...:rolleyes:

FrankyManUID: 2437973

读完MS再申PhD，总比本科申要好很多。
但是……只有真的打算投身神圣的科研事业才有意义，不然……

dolphin8659UID: 2384179

楼主是本科还是研究生呀？本科直接申请phd当然难了不如先读ms，要是已经读完研再读ms就没什么必要了吧