hey guys,
so i actaully emailed someone from tse about continuation today and they said
60 students in doctoral path, 20 move down to standard path, 10 go to us/other places, and 30-35 are left for phd but only 20-25 can get taken up. so it sounds like... well, like it's going to be a lot of hard work and competition.
honestly this is quite discouraging... what scares me is that i went to a masters that was similar (top half get into phd if they want) and i thought surely, i can make top half if i work hard, but it turned out that, coming from a different country, my preparation was very different from the students who had been there for undergrad as well -- and they were half the program! turned out to be very hard to compete with them and i would hate to see the same thing happen at tse.