Advice Requested on Physics Phd School Selection for Husband and Wife Applying Together

Chiron4
Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:56:23 +0000

Also, I should be clear that we do not believe that the professors from whom we are getting the record letters from have contacts at many other universities. Collaborations with other schools, for any of the professors we chose, are very few if any. Thus, we cannot really rely on them having contacts which makes our record letters more effective. This is related to the lack of opportunities which prompted our transfer in the first place.
We will check, but aside from a few contacts my wife’s former professor has at a small number of schools we do not believe that this effect will be significant.