I think people think that having to TA means they’re not being funded or something like that. If you’re getting into a program that doesn’t fully fund you, then that program doesn’t want you or it’s not a good research program. All reputable PhD programs fully fund across disciplines.
Apologies for the Reddit link, but this explains a lot of what I would have said: https://www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool/comments/qwgl6h/why_is_there_a_commonly_repeated_idea_on_this_sub/
Ah, that’s interesting. So I guess the idea that arts PhDs don’t get funding in the US is (mostly) a myth?
I think people think that having to TA means they’re not being funded or something like that. If you’re getting into a program that doesn’t fully fund you, then that program doesn’t want you or it’s not a good research program. All reputable PhD programs fully fund across disciplines.