"Please tell me you have not shown this to anyone else. I basically said that I wasn't a great undergraduate and that now that I had some successful grad courses under my belt, I wanted to re-apply to grad school and get to a better school.Īfter reading this statement, my advisor said almost verbatim, Basically the department was more applied-oriented (almost exclusively so) than I wanted to be. The program I was in did not match my interests. In the statement that I gave my advisor to help him write me a letter of recommendation, I included 2 reasons that I wanted to leave, which were basically the following So let's say for my absolute ranking of grad schools that my first program was ranked not even in the top 100.Īfter a year (or 1.5 years) in this first program, I decided I did not want to get my PhD from there, so I applied to other schools. The first PhD program I entered was one that does not even appear on the listed of schools that I typically see ranked by various reports. PhD programs in my area (since you are concerned about moving to a "top" school). For the purposes of this question/answer I am going to pretend there is an absolute ranking of all U.S. Since you, in part, ask how much this type of thing is frowned upon, I can provide a data point (or at least an anecdote). I want to get some perspective as to what extent is it common, and how much is it frowned upon? But many people (on the internet) say that it is something that is highly frowned upon, and this decreases the chances of admission (even with Masters). They said I can obviously reapply as a first-year graduate student (that's what I want). I contacted a few schools asking about it. I can get sufficient letters from other professors. And, I am also not bothered by getting recommendation letters from UMN. I want to reapply as a first-year graduate student.
However, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not talking about transfer student. There is a lot of negativity in academia about transfer students. I wanted to reapply for grad school with my Master's (along with good GPA). I also have a feeling that my undergrad major might have been a problem so getting a master's could be helpful. However, I got a few great positions in the upcoming summer and a couple of papers which seem to be completely deal breaking. I have accepted the offer from University of Minnesota for the PhD along with a Master's. I was able to get into some schools, but not the top ones. I applied to graduate physics programs in the US. I am a senior undergrad studying internationally and majoring in electronics.
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