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Experience as a non degree student to get into grad school?
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[QUOTE="jedishrfu, post: 5999544, member: 376845"] Can you provide some context here? Are you saying someone wants to get into a PhD program so they first take courses as a non degree student ie meaning credits don’t count and then at some point try to finagle their way into a PhD program via the backdoor of professorial contacts? There’s only a few ways that i know of. One is the current strategy today where you compete with other students taking the GRE, writing essays etc... getting recommendation letters and crossing your fingers. There is another way where you might find a dissertation worthy project at work and you convince some PhDs to form a committee and review your work, suggest courses to take ... and if a lot of things work out you become a PhD the old fashioned way. This path is usually for older folks who can’t compete with the young students of today. It’s a much more difficult and uncertain path but it can be done. The third way is to discover some remarkable new thing that when written up as a thesis might convince a group of PhDs to review your work and award you a PhD. I have no examples of this. The closest would be the out of work prof who discovered an important twin primes theorem and gained enough fame to find a job in a college math department. [URL]https://www.quantamagazine.org/yitang-zhang-and-the-mystery-of-numbers-20150402[/URL] [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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