🔺 r/gradadmissionsunearlydiedd·73 days ago
My eu phd experience
Hello everyone! I have been finally accepted to a PhD program in Europe, and I wanted to share my process since I am a non-EU applicant and the whole application process took about 7 months. Looking back at my stats, I sent 19 applications in total and got 17 direct rejections. I ended up getting 2 interviews, and in both of them, the professors literally started off by congratulating me for making it to the interview stage, telling me that at least 300 people had applied for that single position. Getting a PhD offer these days is ridiculously tough. Even for positions where the topic was perfectly aligned with my background (I was already working as a teaching assistant on that exact same topic, plus I have conference papers and preprints for publishing). I actually also received a graduate admission from a top 10 university in my field, but unfortunately, I couldn't secure funding for it. submitted by /u/nearlydiedd to r/gradadmissions [link] [comments]