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In grad school, we were specifically told not to get too many A's and to focus on publications. If some industrious type got mostly (or all) A's the next questi
by robg 18y ago
In grad school, we were specifically told not to get too many A's and to focus on publications. If some industrious type got mostly (or all) A's the next question from their committee was: Why aren't you working on publishing?
C's though were failing. Still, you had to try really hard to fail. The B's were inflated.
The difference is probably domains - a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience doesn't prepare you for much else than doing science. There, judgment for a tenure-track job begins and ends with publications. And no one will want to see grades and no CV ever includes them.
- scott_s 18y agoComputer Science is no different in terms of criteria for a tenure-track position. Well, publications is only half of it, grant money is the other half, but I imagine that's true for your field as well. The CS departments I've been a part of don't expect students to publish much - if anything - until after most of their course work is done. That's usually about two years.
- bbb 18y agoUNC Chapel Hill has an interesting grade system for grad students that emphasizes that grades don't matter much. There are only three major grades: H (high pass), P (pass), and L (low pass). Well, and and F, technically, but you are kindly asked to leave if you get an F. You can have at most one L. You need to maintain a slightly above P average to be admitted to the PhD program.