wrt the amount of choice a student has as to committee: Assigned may be too strong a term, but there are expectations.
Colleagues have told me that in microbiology, genetics, pharmacology, and several other health related fields, you go to grad school primarily with a particular prof. You are expected to do your dissertation on some sub-part of your advisor's work. Some depts try to balance the dissertation load. Dennis Roberts wrote: <snip> . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
