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Originally Posted by Wiki
@gttts23 Nice profile and cngrats on great admissions.
I am a future applicant, and need your valuable opinion on following:
1- After eight years of experience how easy/difficult is it to get accepted for PHD (I have more than 8 years experience)?
2- Is age a hinderance, any threshold age (for CS PhD)?
3- How valuable is having relevent work and teaching experience, but not research, in field of interest?
4- After this much experience on usually depends upon a handsome salary/month, how to cope with this situation during PhD, if one has a dependent family?
Sorry for digressing from the subject of the thread.
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While I've had the opportunity to speak to several professors in US and Canadian universities about that, I am just an applicant with no direct knowledge.
I've been told that age is not necessarily a problem in CS, and that experience can be very helpful in getting admitted. In my case it has probably been a significant advantage because it is so close to the theoretical discipline I want to do my research in.
I am not aware of any threshold age, but it may become harder as you pass your early thirties. I have a friend who started her PhD in her forties, but this may not be very representative. Before starting her PhD she had many important, and heavily cited papers, published.