And because I see this a second time in my Twitter feed. As much as I agree with this, in US you are admitted by a grad school, not by a specific advisor.
The PhD students I advised at @UCIrvine have been stellar. @furongh @kazizzad are faculty @majidjanz @HanieSedghi @ForoughArabsha1 Yang Shi are successful #AI researchers in industry. Pick the advisor. Not the school.https://twitter.com/zacharylipton/status/1327508765525028865 …
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In most grad schools at least one faculty member should champion and agree to be advisor for the student to be admitted
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It is indeed competitive but not in use top10 according to popular ranking
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How to get good advisor, will access them direct or via school they are in?
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Going to echo this. The sharpest PhD student I met while at UCSC - an applied mathematician - could've easily succeeded at Imperial College, which is at least top-5 in his area. Instead, he went on to a postdoc at UC Merced, and last I heard is looking to return to China.
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Prestige is concentrated, talent is not. If you're recruiting PhD students, consider accepting those that didn't go to an Ivy or Oxbridge, and in particular those that studied in out-of-the-mainstream places like mainland China, Africa, Latin America, or Eastern Europe.
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I think in the US many schools are comparable in terms of research quality, so no need to pick only “top-10”. I was obsessed with the ranking before joining grad school but I finally figured out that you can do equally good at Rice (or probably many other places)
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Things may have changed since I was in grad school, but I have rarely heard of someone having an advisor on entry. I tend to recommend that students choose a pretty-big department so that there’s a better chance of a good fit. Is that a mistake?
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Well, we can not draw much conclusion from this statement. Those students "might" have been more successful if they have gone to top universities and have worked with better advisers. There is no upper bound to success!
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