Good grad schools for Botany

Our daughter will be getting an undergrad BS in bio, and we would like to
hear some opinions about various grad school programs for botany.

Please see today's Zits comic strip. Why is the father writing this instead of
the daughter?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." - Woody Allen

On 6 Feb 2005 02:27:34 -0800, "Lewis Lang" wrote:

Hi. Our daughter will be getting an undergrad BS in bio, and we would
like to hear some opinions about various grad school programs for
botany. Would she need to enter a MS program first, or could she apply
straight to a doctorate program?

If the goal is PhD and the student is obviously qualified, it is
proper, even preferred, to just go for PhD. Some of the better depts
will not take a student whose goal is a masters.


What are some of the better schools in
the US and Canada for botany grad study?

Note that many schools will not have a distinct dept or even program
in botany. The field of interest, whatever aspect of botany that is of
interest, may be in a "biology" dept, or any of a number of
variously-named depts, just depending on how that univ is organized.
At Berkeley, it might be Integrative Biology, for example.

A good way to find programs of interest is to read journals in the
field and see where work that interests the student is from.

bob

Iris Cohen wrote:
Our daughter will be getting an undergrad BS in bio, and we would like to
hear some opinions about various grad school programs for botany.

Please see today's Zits comic strip. Why is the father writing this instead of
the daughter?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." - Woody Allen

Just to make you fell better here are some questions:
1. Why would you post this to a photography group?
2. Why are you asking instead of your daughter?
3. Why don't you ask people in the field, e.g., professors?

As for #2. Shouldn't your daughter do this on her own,
since she has access to her own professor? Off-hand I would
flunk her from a Ph.D. program because of slow wit, or else
interfering parents, or simply a troll.

Did that feel as good for you as it did me?