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Stallion66

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  1. It's sad to read your experience buddy. If I may ask, are you financing your education yourself since 2014? It's close to 3 years so it's a long time. And in what program you are undertaking?
  2. While I agree with most of your post, I think as far as funding is concerned, they treat non-resident Americans and international students in a same way. Yes it's more economical to fund state resident students but non residents have same tuition fee as international students in most cases. And funding is usually tuition waiver + stipend (sometimes medical insurance isn't granted) which is same for both international students and non residents. Moreover, in my program (ECE), majority of the current students are international students in Texas A&M. However, I concur that unfunded offers should be treated as a rejection.
  3. Yeah I most likely wouldn't go unfunded. However what tempts me is that being an international student, I am not yet eligible for TAship. They require international students to give an English Language Proficiency test before they can apply for TAship. I intend to clear that test early in the first semester so that I can get assistantship for next semester. Of course that's not guaranteed. Furthermore, I anticipate that some other international students would have self funded their first semesters expecting themselves to get TAship. So competition would be tough. I find myself in a frustrating situation with two Master's and three PhD admits without any financial assistance.
  4. Ok I havent scrolled through the forum so pardon me if similar threads already exist. I am an international student. And I have heard it a lot that more than 95% PhDs in USA are fully funded. This statement sounds more of a myth when I myself applied for PhD this season. I have got three PhD admits for fall 2017 without a single penny of financial assistance. And I was told that engineering is supposed to be generously funded. I am most disappointed from Texas A&M. They get hundreds of millions of dollars research grant and yet can't fund their PhD students. I have tried to negotiate with them but with no success. The department coordinator and International student office didn't give an encouraging response, prospective supervisors didn't give a response at all. Is there anything I can do to secure a funding for myself? Secondly, in case of Texas A&M, if I manage to self finance my first semester, should I join the program hoping that I would get assistantship or funding from second semester onwards? Having searched for decisions on gradcafe, I know that other students who applied to TAMU are in a similar situation. So I would like to know their feedback as well.
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