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- From: chenowet@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Chenoweth)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: Grad school comments
- Message-ID: <2531@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:05:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.150247.3613@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: chenowet@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.com (Steve Chenoweth)
- Organization: NCR Technology & Development, Dayton, Ohio
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- In article <1992Nov16.150247.3613@aisb.ed.ac.uk> e.reiter@ed.ac.uk () writes:
- >... Also, realize that very few of the people who start Ph.D programs end up
- >20 years later as tenured professors at major research institutions; I suspect
- >that the `ultimate success' rate even for students at the best universities
- >is less than 10%. ...
-
- It would be amusing to determine from more careful statistics what these odds
- are, of a new grad student's making it eventually into a career position in
- the academic world. The universities themselves certainly are eager to have
- the best students compete for these long-term goals, and sometimes make it
- sound like the old advice that "if everyone works hard, they can all be
- valedictorian."
-
- As Prof. Reiter suggests, anyone pondering our recommendations should, above
- all, have a realistic view of what they will get from the venture.
-
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- Steve.Chenoweth@Dayton.NCR.com
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