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My perception was that it's much harder to fail at grad school.
by tim2 19y ago
My perception was that it's much harder to fail at grad school.
- jedberg 19y agoYou don't so much fail at grad school as fail at finding lucrative work afterwards.
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- rms 19y agoIt depends on your major... it's really tough to make it as a Biology PhD. There are just so many of them.
- nostrademons 19y agoMine is that it's spectacularly easy to fail at grad school...tons of my classmates left college figuring they'd get a Ph.D and are now dropping out after (or sometimes just before) getting their masters.
- pfedor 19y agoIt depends on what you mean by "fail". If it means "drop out before getting a PhD", then you are surely right. But that's not how most people who enter PhD programs in sciences define success. They want a tenure track position afterwards (possibly with a few years of posdoc positions in between), and eventually they want to become tenured professors. And I suspect--I can't back it with any numbers though--the failure rate for them is of the same order of magnitude as for startups.