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> The man has no track record of previous research and applied to several Ph.D programs Isn't the PhD program where you're supposed to generate the track recor

• dekhn 2y ago
  Many people who get into PhD programs have some level of undergraduate research (typically performed in a lab, alongside grad students and a professor). When a graduate acceptance committee is evaluating applications, signals like "I have worked with a professor", "wrote an undergrad thesis", and "was coauthor and published in a peer-reviewed journal" cause applicants to be ranked more highly than peers who lack those signals.