I am a PhD newbie. The advice I am giving you is the advice that I received when I applied. Most funding packages will require you to be a teaching assistant for at least 4 semesters. Having prior teaching experience is a plus, but it's not necessary. You will be trained for the job. Finally, make sure you have funding for 5 years and (ideally) a few summers.
Thank you for this video! It was super helpful I'm currently trying to weigh out the pro's and con's and im really really leaning towards pursuing my PhD post grad! :) I'm super excited! Our reasons for PhD definitely align. I'm highly interested in doing the research and I want to find out more information in an otherwise underrepresented humanities area. (Any chance you'd be willing to share your stats and where you ended up going for PhD - or atleast the competitiveness? I don't go to a very competitive school right now and im worried because every other video i watch is someone like "hi! im pursuing my phd at columbia! i went to harvard undergrad!" yikess)
thank you so much for this video!! it's much harder to find PhD application advice videos not made by scientists / engineers /etc
I am a PhD newbie. The advice I am giving you is the advice that I received when I applied. Most funding packages will require you to be a teaching assistant for at least 4 semesters. Having prior teaching experience is a plus, but it's not necessary. You will be trained for the job. Finally, make sure you have funding for 5 years and (ideally) a few summers.
Thank you for this video! It was super helpful I'm currently trying to weigh out the pro's and con's and im really really leaning towards pursuing my PhD post grad! :) I'm super excited! Our reasons for PhD definitely align. I'm highly interested in doing the research and I want to find out more information in an otherwise underrepresented humanities area. (Any chance you'd be willing to share your stats and where you ended up going for PhD - or atleast the competitiveness? I don't go to a very competitive school right now and im worried because every other video i watch is someone like "hi! im pursuing my phd at columbia! i went to harvard undergrad!" yikess)
how do you find out which programs (rather than colleges) are high-ranking?
I have only few weeks left to apply for this. gosh what can I do