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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. Unless you have the scores to get into a top 5 program in your field you are wasting your time. Get into a top program and they'll pay you to get the degree (tuition and stipend) and you'll get a job when you get out. Or pay your own money to get a shitty PhD and then complain when you never get a job in your field. Most people who get into top 5 programs, even in social sciences, tend to have near perfect GRE scores and genius level IQ's.[/quote] Hahahahaha. No. Even in top programs most people do not have genius level IQs, nor perfect test scores. In my field the school doesn't matter as much as your scientific pedigree, which is based on your PI and not the school. Many of the best PIs are at top schools, but there are plenty at other institutions who are very very well respected. - PhD in organic chemistry from PI who subsequently won the Nobel Prize[/quote]
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