Forget about yelp and ranking and rating. Ithink the folks realize there is not a single US website that lists all the graduate schools and the courses details. We are talking about solving the next step of the problem when basic aggregation is missing.
We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs
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#112I've done my best to create a ranking of graduate creative writing programs by measuring the appearance of programs' graduates in the top prize anthologies. It's been generally well received although there has been some resistance to the idea of ranking programs like this. There's still a lot of work to be done on it, but the basic structure, at least is in place. http://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/
nice work. How do you keep it udpated?
Re: We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs
#113I've done my best to create a ranking of graduate creative writing programs by measuring the appearance of programs' graduates in the top prize anthologies. It's been generally well received although there has been some resistance to the idea of ranking programs like this. There's still a lot of work to be done on it, but the basic structure, at least is in place. http://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/
nice work. How do you keep it udpated?
There's a fair amount of manual data collection. I get an excuse to enter into e-mail correspondence with 100s of writers each year, although I have most of the initial contact programmatically driven. There's also automatic annual e-mails of program directors in August to get the latest data from them and for the top schools on the list, I'll make calls if they don't answer the e-mails. In the fall I end up spending an hour or so a day dealing with all the e-mails and data entry.
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#114There was a news article about this in Science two years ago, which a couple such efforts: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/02/crowdsourcing-goe...
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Give us what we want or... we'll quit our degrees and throw away years of our lives? Give us what we want or you have no teachers and your research output drops to near-zero. Most of the actual work of scientific research is done by what we politely euphemize as "early career researchers" or "junior authors": grad-students and postdocs. Tenured and tenure-track professors don't do the bulk of the bench-work, even wh…
But if they don't do any research they will kill their own careers as well.
Kinda like how when you're a worker, not doing any work kills your career. Every strike is a risk.
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#116ejmr exists
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I agree with the sentiment, many potential students are looking overseas. Is there an Internet equivalent of "coffee and conversation"? Steam game gift and discord maybe...
You don’t have to bribe them... you can just write to them.
A lot of people will say things they won't write, especially in a nice environment.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t have to bribe them... you can just write to them.
A lot of people will say things they won't write, especially in a nice environment.
The schedule a call when you found someone you can talk to.
Of course you lose something when physical presence is impossible, but in my experience you can always find someone who is happy to write, chat or call.