MATS mentorships are often weekly, but only for limited time, unlike PhD programs that offer mentorship for several years. These years are probably often necessary to develop good research taste.
I didn’t claim that MATS was a replacement, just that there’s lots of latent demand. I wouldn’t be surprised if a good fraction of the mentors in MATS would be happy to continue to mentor their mentees far after MATS, modulo the mentor and mentee getting along. Would be interesting if MATS had numbers on how often this happens naturally, though I don’t think they do (I probably would have heard about such a survey).
MATS mentorships are often weekly, but only for limited time, unlike PhD programs that offer mentorship for several years. These years are probably often necessary to develop good research taste.
I didn’t claim that MATS was a replacement, just that there’s lots of latent demand. I wouldn’t be surprised if a good fraction of the mentors in MATS would be happy to continue to mentor their mentees far after MATS, modulo the mentor and mentee getting along. Would be interesting if MATS had numbers on how often this happens naturally, though I don’t think they do (I probably would have heard about such a survey).