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  1. elsenot
    I disagree. For very best schools your verbal GRE will be off putting for CB. Try and get above 95th percentile. Research experience would only matter if it leads to a good letter from someone they trust.
  2. elsenot
    You learned not to lie which is a good thing. Given you did best thing now is to decline now quickly. Doubt anyone will remember.
  3. elsenot
    The school cannot officially ask you to say yes or no before April 15. It could be that the faculty are not aware of the rule. Or perhaps the school is not in the US. Often though these apparent breaches are just misunderstandings.
  4. elsenot
    Unless a school requires you to submit separately a SOP and PS I do not think that you need to change tactics or the basic framework of the document on the basis of how it is named.
  5. elsenot
    Most advisers will be very humane about this. Your real constraints are going to be the timing of your required classes in the first and second years. Even then, I can't imagine any issues about you leaving to join your spouse outside of term time, as long as you work your adviser to make sure that you are productive on your RA. I think though you will need to mentally commit to spending term time at your university during your third and fourth years because otherwise I think it is too easy to get lost and not make progress on research.
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    What matters is one question which is "Where do you rate the student among the students you have taught or advised" (or some variation of that). You need to get an "exceptional"/top 5%/top 2% rating on that on whatever scale the school uses. Online applications systems now force professors to answer that question so they can't be lazy and get their assistant to upload their LOR. The "ranking" question matters as a screening device. Then all that matters it the content of the LOR.
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    I think the GRE score will be below the cutoff for many of the top schools. One thing to think about is whether the Wharton professor knew your GRE scores when they were nice to you? I think though that you may have some success in 10-25. I would personally not apply to backup schools but redo your GRE and perhaps apply again next year if you don't get in.
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    I don't think there would be bias against the location of the school, though you would need to make sure you had well-known letter writers and signal strenuously that you would do well in a US MBA classroom.
  9. elsenot
    Please don't cut your hair.
  10. elsenot
    In general you would need to: a) Be prepared to do the work as a volunteer. Funding for such a position (where you are not a student or a post-doc) would be hard to manage in most university accounting systems, unless you are part of a formal "predoc" program. b) Be prepared to do something quite manual. You don't have the skills yet to contribute to the more technical sides of the work. You might have the skills to do a literature review, but that would be risky for the professor involved as literature reviews are hard to do well and they may have to redo your work. In general, volunteering to collect data (whether it be manually or through a script) is most likely to get you a position. c) Focus on making it clear that you would be an asset from the very beginning - you don't want to come across as someone who pesters people.
  11. elsenot
    It is perfectly fine to not go on a campus visit if you are accepted. There will be no negative consequences. If you have not been accepted to a university then not attending a campus visit would have the same negative consequences as not making time for a job interview for any job you wanted to pursue.
  12. elsenot
    I would drop the letter from the supervisor and try and find two more academic letter writers. I might also be wary about multi-methods research in the SOP. That is great in practice but most academic research tends to follow one methodological paradigm and you want to signal you understand that.
  13. elsenot
    Leave it off. I would not take it as a signal of anything apart from the person being insecure about their intellectual ability. You don't have to have that high an IQ to get into Mensa so it is not a signal of intellect.
  14. elsenot
    I think a nice way of checking whether my assertions are correct is looking at the most recent crop of Assistant Professors who got tenured (and denied tenure) in your chosen field. Work out how many of them have blogs.
  15. elsenot
    I suspect this thread will disappear but I realized I should have more assertive language. 1) Your aim before tenure (whether as a PhD student or as untenured faculty) is to get 10 famous academics at schools with an impressive letterhead to write letters saying that you are great. This will be a function of your publication record and perhaps impressions they have of you from meeting you at conferences. 2) Writing a blog on academic matters (rather than something you are doing for fun) does not help in the slightest with 1). 2) After you get tenure, then write a blog. At that point you can worry about impressing a broader set of people.
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