Engineering PHD - importance of the GRE?

collegealum314
Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:06:25 +0000

The best strategy is to apply as if you are going to continue in your current subfield. You don’t know for sure you’re going to even like doing research in the new subfield. While it’s pretty common to change subfields when you get on campus, my experience in science is that professors will prefer to admit people to the program who could walk into their lab and already know what they are doing.