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    Hard to say. In general, my gut is probably yes. But you should never decide a PhD based on what is 'hot' now... when you graduate things can easily have changed (or not)!
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    Interviews not going out yet. Everyone is still coming off the winter break. Some fields in business have conference deadlines early Jan as well. It's hard, but patient is a virtue right now!
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    Hard to say. Math helps with understanding the logic behind the stats. Is super advance math necessary? probably not. Does it Hurt? definitely not. may also be based on what type of research methods you want to use. Math might help to open the door to some alternative and more advance quant methods.
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    Not sure if this is a new PhD program or not. Might be relatively new, which means less of a track record, but the university brand is (obviously) recognised.
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    Hi Nala, OB is sort of weird. I feel like it's too broad to characterise 'classic foundational' papers. It really depends on which research topics that you are interested in. If can be more specific about which research areas interest you, then that might help people to help you as well.
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    ----------- Note from Forum Admin ----------- Welcome to the 2022 Ph.D. in business concentrations' sweat thread! This is a thread for applicants (hopefully!) starting their PhD program in 2022! Use this is vent, discuss any frustrations, or random musings that you would like others to weigh in on! Best of luck to this years applicants! For those of you just starting to browse this website, check out the Welcome to the Forum thread for information that has been helpful in the past.
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    Send whichever ones provides the best representation of yourself, percentile wise.
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    Interesting question. PhD is do-able with a family, though definitely more difficult with multi things to balance. Funding varies by school, so probably consider the location and the COLA for each of the locations appropriately so you can get a sense of how it will impact your budgets. Can you afford a small house or condo? Sure? It completely depends on where you are doing your PhD. I think most of your concerns are very university dependent, so probably some research (or inquiries directed towards the program directors) is necessary. Advice for handling a PhD program with family? From my observations of other students with families, it's perhaps having strict boundaries between the work/study side of things and what is 'family' side of things. If you make your boundaries 'permeable', you gain some flexibility when workloads are higher (in work or on the family side) .... but the downside is in phd studies... there is always more that you can be doing, either for your own learning or setting up for your career upon graduating. With more strict boundaries, you will have to learn to be far more efficient with the time you have than other students who may not encounter the same issues. For the first year or two, for example, one of the important skills to pick up quickly is how to read and assess large amounts of academic literature and extract the information that you need to. When you advance in the program, the strict boundaries will be helpful in that it takes time to 'get into the flow' of writing and thinking, so distractions that come up will eat away at your time, since getting back into the flow of thinking will take some time with each distraction. Finally, work with your partner to really understand what will be happening during this time and some general ideas on how the two of you will be approaching this tough period of your lives. Connect with others that have family too, either in your program or seek them out around the business school when you get there, so that you can get a sense of some of the strategies that may have worked for others. Best of luck! Hope my perspectives are helpful for you to think through!
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    No guarantees, but it seems like you should expand your list of potential schools that you are considering. Every adcom may view applications differently, and as you summarized, your UG GPA may be significant barrier and there may be situations when your application is simply 'screened out'. People who have connections to these schools that you know (in academics) may be able to get your application in front of people to be given a deeper look. It's hard to say whether you have a reasonable shot or not, but definitely expand your list of potential schools.
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    To facilitate information sharing on the forum, please feel free to share as much information as you feel comfortable sharing about your received interviews, admission offers, or rejections. The following format has been in prior years: Notification Type (e.g., skype interview, flyout interview, waitlisted, accepted, rejected): Institution Name: Concentration Applying to (e.g., strategic management, finance, accounting, org behavior, marketing, etc.): Date of Notification: Type of Notification (e.g., email, phone, snail mail): Additional Comments: If you are fortunate enough to get a callback (interview or acceptance) from one of your top schools, congrats! If not, then remember ... several universities are probably pursuing the same candidates. By the time most of them make their decision, the programs that they decided not to go to are likely to have to go down the waitlist. Students at the top of their waitlists may have already accepted offers at other programs! Remember, it does't matter if you were their top pick or not! If you got in the program (for whatever reason), you're in! Best of luck!
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    Just my 2 cents here.... economics and computer science don't really have a clear link into marketing .... the degrees might be helpful in signaling your comfort with more technical stuff, for example if you want to do quant marketing, or marketing with big data.... it might be better to spend the year or two getting close to and working with a marketing faculty on actual research so that s/he can speak to you interest in marketing topics as well as your actual ability in doing research.... An economics won't hurt, but i don't know if it will help that much either. It may have the indirect benefit of making you more comfortable with graduate level statistic, which because its econ may give you more confidence for quant/big data type research. Best of luck!
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    Might be helpful to tell a story or give an example about what led to you having this intellectual curiousity. If you have good letter writers, they may be able to address this in their letter if they believe these are not indicative of your actual ability. At the end of the day, if you are not going to take the GMAT again, then the GMAT and GPA are whatever they are and you'll have to roll with the punches on this one. Maybe a bit... I mean at the end of the day it's a writing game. But given your english lit background and higher verbal, I would not be worried about your writing skills as much... but I would be worried about how difficult it will be for you to pick up statistics. It's not that the stats will be super difficult (compared to other areas), but it's better to be able to have a broader range of stats skills, oppose to perhaps only learning rather simplistic quant skills .... the exception might be if you want to be a pure experimental researcher, which Mich and Nwestern could help you do... in this case, it's more about rigorous research design. Again, you have whatever you have at this point. It is better to have a letter writer that knows you well and has a lot to say beyond "this student did well in my class, yada yada yada.... " but can also speak to things they have observed, talked to you about, or what capabilities they believe you have.... etc... basically the closer you are, the more they have to write, which is helpful if you are neck and neck with another applicant. Hope it helps! Best of luck!
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    See if you can find a professor during your undergrad studies in the field to work with them and get a sense of the literature. you might end up doing something like literature search/review, which would be helpful for you to get a sense of the academic literature. As mentioned previously, the academic literature is quite dense, so it may take you a while to start to wrap your head around it and how to read it appropriately. This is what most students do the 1st year of their PhD programs.
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    If its the same department, then its likely all the offers went out around the same time. If they operationally are in separate departments, then it depends on whether each department's committee have met yet.
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    Maybe wait a few weeks and check in and ask if anything has changed on their end. Question of whether or not the other opportunities are close enough in your mind with the one you are waiting on... i.e., if the significant factor, is for example, the geographic location, but you believe you would get solid training from both. If there is a significant discrepancy in what you would expect from the training itself, then perhaps you should make a decision closer to the deadline.
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    No clear and fast rules with this. My 2 cents is that your best bet is to frame your inquiry as something along the lines of how far along the process the department is in selecting incoming phd students.
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    Just say something that communicates from what you know right now, you have interest in X, Y, and Z, and that you look forward to learning more about the intersections between different areas of (your field) and these interests.
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    It's a pendulum that swings both ways..... aside from budgetary issues.... a school could signal that taking an extra year is possible, IF it is clear that the student will be in a much better position to place well. In other words, this student seems to be on track, but for whatever reason, things haven't shaked out favorably and the extra year should help. On the other hand, if it's clear that a student isn't moving along as they should (i.e., in terms of motivation towards completion), then an extra year is not exactly ideal. If the department allows these students to stay, a precedence is set which makes it seem okay to just delay graduation. When the pendulum swings this way, schools tend to crack down and want to move everyone out sooner than later. As for ways to fund an extra year, it often comes to negotiation with the department. For example, are they willing to fund you freely for the extra year? Does your adviser (or a faculty member) have funds or research grants to support you? Can you work as an RA for someone? Can you teach courses for the department or TA for someone to obtain your funding? I've heard of some even going to nearby universities to teach a few courses so they could make some money to stay the extra year. It's not an ideal situation to be in for you (the student), nor is it for the faculty (i.e., why should you be an exception, and what is that setting up for the rest of the students that follow you?). Best of luck!
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    you're interests seem more aligned with strategic management as a sub-discipline. leadership in macro-research is more or less focused on Board of Directors, CEOs, and Top Management Teams. This coupled with your interests in M&A would put you in the strategy world, more so than the OB world. If you wish to get some training on both sides, look for programs that may be fairly solid in both strategy and OB. On the surface level, your GPA will be the hurdle may knock you out of different programs. I personally think that this will need to be explicitly addressed in your SOP. Not that this is 'fair' in assessing candidates, but I think through experience adcoms have learned that GPA is a fairly solid indicator overall and special situations exist, but are not that common. A very high GMAT score is something that may help the committee assess your 'academic aptitude' to handle doctoral training. Don't bank on a specific university granting you admissions (i.e., Purdue/Indiana). I would definitely increase the number of schools plan to apply to closer to 25-35 range, if not more. Try reaching out to doctoral program directors ahead of time and let them know you are interested in the program, and see what are the things they are looking for and ask them what you can do to be more competitive. This may help signal interest to the department. Best of luck!
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    It's more from experience than a knock against you. A single person cohort is a bit lonely, and regardless of your own situation, social support is pretty important to survive grad school. The program has probably seen single person cohorts in the past, and more than once it probably hasn't worked out well.
  21. tm_associate
    It is tough when returning to school as you are older and have more experience. The most difficult hurdle is making it past the cutoffs. The combination of GPA and GMAT are general cutoff markers for most schools. If you have a personal connection with someone at SC or have a faculty member you are working with that does, then you may be able to get your application looked over in more detail. However, that person will still have to pitch to the rest of the committee as to why you should be an exception. Even if you own personal life situations make it difficult to study for the GMAT again, there are most certainty some applicants who have a similar situation who did take the GMAT again. Although its late in the application season, you should definitely put out your applications if you were intending to already this year. Since you are also aware of the weaknesses in your profile and if you are committed to a phd as the next step in your life, then also keep your options open and considering if you don't get accepted into a reasonable school of your liking that you may want to retake the GMAT. Also, developing connections with certain people and letting them get to know you as a person may help get your profile looked over. Best of luck!
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    You know, as much as I would like to inspire more confidence in the process of applicant recruiting, it's actually very random. Each year, the selection committee may be made up of different faculty members, and their priorities in what they view as "good" and what they want in the program may very. Sure, there's a general underlying trend, with very high variability, to what faculty view as a "good background", but you never know what part of your profile may stick out to a certain faculty member. Regardless of what the existing faculties' backgrounds are, you have whatever experience you have. I would own your strengths (i.e., how your background is a strength to the field you want to go into) and show that you also know there are some weaknesses and how you believe the program itself can help address those. Zero research experience is not necessarily bad. There are pros and cons to taking in applicants with a lot vs. no research experience (the ones that have a lot may be set in certain ways of doing things ... makes them harder to train out of potentially "bad" habits).
  23. tm_associate
    Welcome to the forum all! Glad to see some activity from applicants for the next cycle already. Keep in mind that it's a long process. I know that it doesn't make it easier for each individual, but please try to keep in mind that phd applications are one of the last things on the minds of faculty right now in the U.S. market. The end of semester is fast approaching, which means a lot of teaching duties to wrap up. In addition, there are a lot of faculty openings and candidates this year, as many schools are still in the middle of the new faculty hiring process. To temper expectations a bit, don't expect much news until late February. Typically the phd applicant market will pick up as early as march through april 15th. A lot of waiting ahead, so just settle in for the ride. Best of luck to all this year!
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    Just a thought... Schools that mass email as many potential applicants they can find are looking to increase their applicant pool. The more applicants they have, the more of a chance they can find potentially a good candidate. It's no guarantee that they will seriously consider you if your profile is not meeting typical standards (subjective, depending on school). Again, it's just a strategy to market their program to increase the size of the applicant pool.
  25. tm_associate
    Welcome to the Ph.D. in business concentrations' sweat thread for applicants! This is a thread for applicants (hopefully!) starting their PhD program in Fall 2019! Use this is vent, discuss any frustrations, or random musings that you would like others to weigh in on! Best of luck to this years applicants! For those of you just starting to browse this website, check out this thread for information that has been helpful in the past.
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