Has your graduate school application been rejected? 📄
There are two steps you can take after the rejection letter.
A short thread 🧵 on how to turn a rejection to your advantage
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There are two steps you can take after the rejection letter.
A short thread 🧵 on how to turn a rejection to your advantage
Amplify @Oludeewon @baba_Omoloro @AaronAkpuPhilip @OpenAcademics @PhDfriendSana @AcademicChatter
1/ Context: Although I was not rejected from this graduate program, I was offered an offer without guaranteed funding.
This meant that I was expected to look for funding on my own during my PhD or until my PI received a grant that he could use to pay me.
This meant that I was expected to look for funding on my own during my PhD or until my PI received a grant that he could use to pay me.
2/ Such an offer was obviously very stressful so I didn’t join this program.
Now, I had two options
• Forget about this application and apply for other schools.
• Utilize my relationship with the PI (who agreed to accept me in my cold-email) to understand…….
Now, I had two options
• Forget about this application and apply for other schools.
• Utilize my relationship with the PI (who agreed to accept me in my cold-email) to understand…….
how I can maximise my chances of admission in the next cycle.
Although I was afraid to ask him for help with my app because it seemed as if I was asking a favour….
But his response shook me….😲😲😲
Although I was afraid to ask him for help with my app because it seemed as if I was asking a favour….
But his response shook me….😲😲😲
He offered me
• To collaborate with him on two research papers as a co-author over summer and fall 2021.
• To integrate with his lab students online to understand the culture of the lab better.
• To invite me for all his lab meetings online to suggest research ideas…..
• To collaborate with him on two research papers as a co-author over summer and fall 2021.
• To integrate with his lab students online to understand the culture of the lab better.
• To invite me for all his lab meetings online to suggest research ideas…..
• He said that he would write a LETTER of RECOMMENDATION for my next applications 😍😍😍
He said that we will work on this application again and apply for Fall 2022 to the same program with more publications, better research experience and a glowing LoR!
Moral of the story?
He said that we will work on this application again and apply for Fall 2022 to the same program with more publications, better research experience and a glowing LoR!
Moral of the story?
Don’t succumb to rejections. A rejection is not the full stop to your application, it’s just a pause like this semi colon ;
If you ask for help from the PI who agreed to supervise you, they are likely to help you through your next round of applications in multiple ways 💎
If you ask for help from the PI who agreed to supervise you, they are likely to help you through your next round of applications in multiple ways 💎
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