Well, I've heard from very reliable sources that at Stanford, something like 99% of the students pass the PhD qual. (And by "very reliable sources" I mean Stanford grad students and advisors with whom I worked for several weeks this summer.) They said the qual there is more of a sort of...
I'm a senior undergrad, so I'm currently in the process of researching grad schools to apply to. My primary area of interest is Experimental Particle Astrophysics, and I would just like any thoughts you might have about grad schools that would be a good match for that focus (both selective...
Out of the following list of schools, I was wondering which ones have a "weeding-out" qualifying exam, and which ones have a qual that's just more of a formality?
UC Berkeley
U. of Chicago
Cornell
U. of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Northwestern
U. of Maryland, College Park
U. of...