Re: Transferring to a different graduate program?

From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:39:09 +0100

Richard Henry wrote:

> "shnaggletooth" <shnaggletooth@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:d4162c1a.0405301756.3fe4f172@posting.google.com...
>
>>Suppose, just suppose, that for whatever reason, I'm not particulary
>>happy at my Phd chem program after the first year: Can one transfer to
>>another program? I've heard that there is some sort of informal
>>collusion amongst programs NOT to allow people to transfer, unless
>>that student's prof lost tenure or their spouse is at another
>>location.
>>
>>(I'll begin my studies this fall, but I'm just wondering if I'm bound
>>ball-and-chain to that program once I start it).
>
>
> Assuming you are in the US, the following may apply:
>
> Amendment XIII
> 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
> crime
> whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
> United
> States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Except Guantanamo and other extra-territorial concentration camps. 

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Dirk
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