Making a Grad School Decision - Advice Needed

[Dustinsfl]

I have been accepted to a few graduate schools for a PhD in Math.

I have been accepted to most schools for the fall but one said I could come during the summer with tuition and fees waived and a stipend. Can I attend this university for the summer only and then transfer to the school I want to go to for the fall?

Thanks for your advice.

 

[jtbell]

What do you expect to get out of going to the one school just for the summer, and then transferring to the other school in the fall, versus simply waiting for fall to start at the other school?

Besides a summers' worth of money, that is.

 

[Dustinsfl]

To take Real and Abstract.

 

[twofish-quant]

II have been accepted to most schools for the fall but one said I could come during the summer with tuition and fees waived and a stipend. Can I attend this university for the summer only and then transfer to the school I want to go to for the fall?

You'll have to ask the schools, but my expectation is the answer will be no.

The issue is that when a school accepts you as a graduate student, they are expecting to get some work out of you as a teaching assistant. If you take courses in the fall and take their money, and then in the fall you drop out before they can have you grade papers, then is not a good thing for the school.

On the other hand, if they say "yes, we'll let you do it." Then that's their business.

Also, if you are considering going in their for the summer and then switching without letting them know you are planning this, DON'T. The problem is that academic maths is a very, very small field in which everyone knows everyone else, so if you do something like this, and people end up angry at you, word will spread, and you'll quickly find yourself blacklisted for everything.