Day 877 of 1000
In all this applying for PhD’s we have found that if one wants to do a Management PhD, it almost always requires 5-10 years of business experience and often it requires a Masters degree. Kelly wants to get a PhD in Marketing in parallel with a Masters degree in Statistics. It is a little bit of an iffy deal. She is pretty uniquely prepared to perform the kind of research required for a Managment PhD because of her Statistics degree and her Statistical internship, but we are not sure if it is sufficient to overcome her need for experience. We have spoken to a couple of schools where she has applied and believe she has a fairly good chance of getting accepted at one of them in particular.
When I say pretty good, I would put the odds at only about 55/45 right now. It is very painful waiting for the accept/reject letters and we are at peace with the fact that Kelly might have to go to work for a couple of years. Her experience at her Johns Hopkins internship has shown her she really likes that. Still, it would be great to break the mold a little and start into a Management PhD program right out of her Bachelors degree. We have checked at her favorite school and they generally send out the first round in mid-March with the earliest notifications going out in late February, so we have another couple months of opportunity to work on our patience.
Betty Blonde #43 – 09/15/2008
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