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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academia is best understood as an apprenticeship. It matters most with whom you study, and a handful of PhD advisors have a near monopoly on the placement of newly minted PhDs into tenure track jobs. These advisors tend to be at universities than can support the best PhD students, and thus tend to be at top tier universities for their field. Incredibly, the apprenticeship often begins at the undergraduate level, with certain colleges producing a disproportionately large number of students who get admitted to top PhD programs--because the undergraduate advisors went to the same PhD programs as the PhD advisors. It's a very, very small and tight-knit world.[/quote] It's a pyramid scheme. [/quote]
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