Bullet Points for Prospective Students

• Unlike STEM programs, where advisors may directly recruit students to their labs, PhD/MA students at Hubbard come into the program without committing to a specific advisor before admission. In other words, you must go through the regular graduate admission process, assisted by our amazing Assistant Director for Graduate and Professional Programs, Kassie Snyder. Please contact her if you have any PhD/MA admission questions.

• I currently do not serve on the School's graduate admission committee. Therefore, if you want my input and assessment of your application materials during the PhD/MA admission, please indicate so in your personal statement and the "HSJMC Graduate Faculty you are interested in working with" section of the application form, preferably as the first faculty member you mention in the personal statement and the first faculty member indicated on the application form.

• My paradigmatic training is in computational social science. I care about issues related to research designs, causality, and quantitative description, and I expect students to have some programming experience and "computational thinking." Please refer to this reading list I created for my current PhD student Jiacheng Huang (feel free to reach out to her at huan1660@umn.edu if you want to know more about the PhD/MA life at Hubbard) to 1) have a sense of what I read/appreciate and 2) assess whether I will be a good match for your PhD/MA pursuit.

• During admission season, I am receiving an increasing number of inquiries from students. I try my best to reply to all emails, so if I don't reply, feel free to remind me with a follow-up. Please include a CV, a writing sample, and a general description of your research areas/questions.