NB: if faculty do have time to connect with you before you apply to a doctoral program, take it as a good sign; but do not take it as a bad sign (necessarily) if they don't. A lot of people get too many requests to check in one on one at that stage. @academicchatter
When I was a grad student, a few decades ago, the primary problem was that my thesis advisor slept with and then married the grad student fiance of another grad student (who he had arranged a trip for to get him out of the way). I got out of academia ABD and I think it was a pretty good choice.
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