Apply two years in a row to same grad school?

juillet
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:10:38 +0000

As was said, it depends on the reasons that the student was rejected. If the student needs more research experience, that can be obtained in a year and another try can be had. If the student’s GRE scores were too low, the student can reapply the following year with higher scores. Sometimes students are rejected because the professor they wanted to work with can’t fund them or wasn’t taking students, but applying the next year can change things.

But if his research/interests just isn’t/aren’t a good fit with the department, then that’s not something that can be easily remedied.

What kind of adverse effects are you talking about? Basically, it doesn’t necessarily diminish your chances to reapply to the same department as long as you have done something in the interim year to improve. And nobody is going to yell at you about it.