I am 20 right now, and will be turning 21 right before my projected start date for grad school. Will they consider me too young to enter a PhD program???
I have good grades and I am taking the GRE this week. I have worked in the small engine design and manufacturing industry for 2 years now, and I used to be in the water treatment industry. (My school is a full co-op school). I'm finishing up an undergraduate thesis on heat transfer.
2007-02-21 20:02:29 · 4 answers · asked by wup 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Discrimination on the basis of age is illegal, but judgment about maturity is not. It is not unheard of for PhD prgrams to decline to admit candidates because they do not appear to be mature enough to handle the demands of doctoral level study.
However, your work experience seems to me to constitute one indication of your maturity. Everything else you include in your application should highlight your maturity as well.
The grad program I direct is in the humanities, and does not look at work experience as a factor in admissions, but I am assuming you are looking at mechanical engineering or some other sort of vocationally-oriented program. From what I understand, programs of that nature do consider work experience, and you seem to have addressed that aspect of the application well.
Best wishes to you!
2007-02-22 10:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by X 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you are quite young but you seem to have experience which they will take in to consideration.
It will probably depend on
A) experience.
B) your age - as to whether they think you have another staying power and 'life experience' to go through it.
C) the university you apply to do it at.
Good luck though!
2007-02-21 20:06:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Discrimination of basis of age is illegal. So, they should not take that into consideration.
2007-02-21 20:05:06 · answer #3 · answered by Enjoying Life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wear a wizard's beard.
2007-02-21 20:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by ★Greed★ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋