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Written by Dr. Casey Fiesler on 2024-09-17 at 23:18

hey professor friends!

In your departments, do current graduate students ever help with graduate admissions? Does this raise concerns about applicant privacy?

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Written by Rob Ricci on 2024-09-17 at 23:39

@cfiesler In our department, no. The closest it comes is that I might ask students their opinion of a school in their home country that I'm not familiar with. But we certainly don't share applications with them.

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Written by Nathan Taylor on 2024-09-17 at 23:44

@ricci @cfiesler wow, interesting, over here you can self-nominate to be on the admissions committee (nobody ever gets turned down) and you either get assigned from the pool of incoming Msc or PhD students, and get unfettered access to students' statements, letters, transcripts, ...

...kind of assumed that this was the default around other departments!

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Toot

Written by Nathan Taylor on 2024-09-17 at 23:48

@ricci @cfiesler (this is the same department that thought https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/12/14/u-texas-will-stop-using-controversial-algorithm-evaluate-phd was a good idea, of course, so, ...)

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Written by Rob Ricci on 2024-09-18 at 00:15

@nathan what in the actual fuck

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