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Why is it disadvantageous in graduate admissions to have a higher degree? indicates that holders of a master’s degree are held to higher standards when it comes to graduate admissions. The stated requirements for some graduate programs () also outright exclude applicants with doctoral degrees. These seem to be saying that holding a higher degree prior to application is a disadvantage (a fatal one in the case of a PhD). This also applies to private universities: Stanford  (at least in computer science); .  I don't understand why:   If there are two applicants, Alice and Bob, who have achieved largely similar things, it seems logical that both should have a roughly equal chance of being admitted. However, based on JeffE's answer, if Alice has a Masters degree while Bob does not, it's Bob that gets admitted instead of Alice. JeffE's answer even indicates that if Alice has achieved slightly more than Bob, it's still Bob that gets admitted.  If graduate admissions is looking for students that are capable of succeeding in its program, then Alice should be more likely to succeed than Bob since she's already had some experience of graduate study. This should be even more the case if Alice already has a PhD – if she can do it once, she should be able to do it again.    JeffE's answer indicates that since Alice has had more opportunities than Bob, she should also be held to higher standard. However it should also be true that Alice has already achieved what Bob has yet to and in fact might not be able to achieve. Further, JeffE's answer seems to be saying that Alice should do the academic equivalent of financial engineering and pass her graduate-level courses &amp; thesis without getting a master’s degree even if she qualifies for it, which sounds silly.  As for applicants with PhD degrees, my first guess would be that this is because , and the university is acting in the applicant's best interests. However if this is the case, then this is effectively telling the applicant "I know what you want better than you do", which also sounds silly. UC Berkeley's requirements also seem to be saying that if someone with a CV worthy of a tenured position were to apply for a PhD student position, the university will say "no" even though it's clearly better in their best interests (in terms of research output) to say "yes".   Presumably I'm misunderstanding something because if this behavior were irrational, it would already have been changed. What am I missing?  EDIT: I wonder if things are different in programs where the student is involved in research directly without spending time on coursework? Snap entire selection to the 3d cursor in edit mode Is there any way to snap an entire selection to the 3d cursor in edit mode?  Shift+S > Selection to Cursor snaps each individual vertex to the cursor, so the shape is lost: Difference between @interface definition in .h and .m file I have set up my site with sample pages and data (lorem ipsum, etc..) and Google has crawled these pages. I deleted all these pages and actually added real content but in webmaster tools, i still get a lot of 404 errors Google trying to crawl these pages. I have set them to "mark as resolved" but some pages still come back as 404.   Furthermore, I have a lot of these sample pages still listed when i do a search of my site on Google. How to remove them. I think these irrelevant pages are hurting my rating.   I actually wanted to erase all these pages and start getting my site being being indexed as a new one but I read it's not possible? (I have submitted a sitemap and used "Fetch as Google.") What do you wish someone had told you before your first commute? How to make text aligned left/center/right in the same line? I am trying to set up a wordpress multisite with MAMP Pro that will allow me to have two different domains (one domain for each language): dev.domainenglish.com dev.domainfrench.com I have already set up the primary english virtual host and secondary virtual french host. I have installed the wordpress multi site on the primary English virtual host. Next I created a &quot;sub site&quot; within the primary english domain multi site that has the location  dev.domainenglish.com/french/ Then I tried to use the MU Domain mapping plugin to make it so that when you visit dev.domainfrench.com the theme and content posted on dev.domainenglish.com/french/ will be visible. As of now when you visit dev.domainfrench.com the page loads the standard MAMP Pro index.html instead of my wordpress subsite:  the virtual host was set up successfully. If you can see this page, your new virtual host was set up successfully. 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Vertical line spacing enforced to be an integer multiple of a base line spacing, even when interrupted (for example) by an equation of arbitrary height.   Any ideas as to how either or both of these could be accomplished? Do I need a flight ticket or a flight reservation for my UK visit visa application Am compiling documents for my visa application and I read that I need to present go and return flight tickets to prove that I will return at the end of my visit. Then a while ago I got to know that I can just get a flight reservation with out buying the flight tickets because the visa application can be refused and you have already bought the tickets.  So l request to know which of the two , having a flight ticket or flight reservation is more compelling to the visa officer and more convenient me because I would buy a flight ticket and my application is refused How can I vertically align elements in a div? I have a div with two images and an h1. 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Thanks for any help, steve I am rendering my scene with only one sample but all the renders of the same picture have a different seed value. How can I combine them correctly? I wrote a java-program that loads all the images and takes the average pixel color for each pixel of the images. Is that a correct way of combining the images? It doesn't reduce the noise very much so I am not happy with it. What can I do? I am looking to identify a story that I read around 2001 (it is probably much older).  Someone showed me the story on pages printed from the internet, and it was attributed to Isaac Asimov (although I cannot state that is the true author).    The story is told in glimpses at different points of time in the future.  In each glimpse, humans are asking a more and more "intelligent" computer how to prevent the universe from collapsing into a singularity in the future, and the computer states it needs more computational power and resources to solve this problem.  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On top of that, they look like they have to be individually machined, which can't be a cost-effective process.