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By volodja
Posted Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 01:10:32 PM PDT
I'm going to pursue my PhD in the US, and I need your advices and thoughts concerning the topic.

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Hello! I'm planning to pursue my PhD in the US. What is the average percentage of grad. school applicants who have publications (I mean such universities as New York University and MIT)?

It is common that there are around 5 problems on quals. Looking at the quals of Stanford, I understood that it would be VERY difficult for me to solve a good amount of these problems in 3 hours. Do you know how many problems a student is expected to solve (I don't mean particulary Stanford here).

Final question. Suppose a university says that its minimal TOEFL requirements are 90 scores with some specification for each of the 4 TOEFL section. Will this university consider applicants with, say, 78-83 TOEFL scores? (NUY demands as many as 100 scores!!!)
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by Cotati on Sun Mar 02, 2008 at 01:54:24 PM PDT

If by "publications" you mean papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals, then I would guess that the average for new incoming grad students in the US is zero, and the average percentage of incoming grads would be close to that. It might be higher for the top several schools or so (Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley). I would be surprised if it were a requirement, but then you are trying to size up the competition, eh? It probably matters less at lower-ranked schools like NYU.

Lots of schools have example exams on their website along with some description of what constitutes a passing score. Some exceptions are those schools which only use oral exams (Harvard?), but there the students also have web sites describing the exam experience.

Sorry, don't know about TOEFL.



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