MPPgal

I tried but they didn´t get my hint, who did you email?

Merci beaucoup!

I already visited two weeks ago and loved it, yet mine was not an admitted students day experience as I was the only one there!

And to be honest I would never call Boston "unexciting" you have MIT, Harvard, BU and BC all there! It is an amazing academic town with lots of oportunities, plus only a train ride away from NYC for a cool summer internship!

Any help will be apreciated!

So I am currently torn: LBJ Pros: full ride and stipend Better fit as I can actually study environmental policy Better regional fit as their Lat Am Cons: not as strong connections, location GPPI Pros: more "important" connections better location Cons: Very expensive, not many professors focused on LatAm or environmental policy

Yes, please!

Speaking about international public policy, you cannot compare net salaries in France and the US as the first one has a lot more benefits (unemployment, health insurance, maternity, etc) and higher income taxes, therefore a lower salary actually accounts for a lot more due to benefits. Furthermore, average salary of a country is hardly what any master graduate makes (that´s not even the case in Cuba). Yet, I would say at our age (considering the average students is a 26 year old with 2-3 yrs experience and no family) 50K is enough (even if not a high salary).

Nope, only heard tehy seldom gave merit aid to internationals, got full funding elsewhere thus I declined their offer.

It is national and not international but I wouldn´t consider it "regional" it definetly serves most of the country! I know when I lived in Albany I used to fly there all the time.

Yep, their department even in environmental policy is very LatAm centric hehehe. And BTW SAIS is great I think it's problem in LatAm is that Johns Hopkins even though a great school is not very well known in here, and thus SAIS is just known as a program without the institutional backup of Harris or SIPA (even though It is a much better program).

Much better to fly to Reagan as it is on the metro line, BWI is far but also better connected than Dulles

True, but sadly I am not a US citizen so Im in a complete different boat! In my country one school is very well known, the other not so much, and I am not eligible for loans and Sais unlike GT does not offer international students loans, good luck your decision makes perfect sense, and if I was to work for the US government I would do the same

Yeah my american professors said the same, my Mexican knew little to nothing about it....hence my point... In the US or people who lived in the US is well known, outside not so much.

Preciselly, I spoke to one of the most famous IR professors in my country, to be honest he knew little about SAIS, I think for such an IR centric school it could build more of a name outside the US! Plus honestly, I simpky cannot understand how a school in Italy can be as expensive as the US one...

Im sure there is a korean karaoke in austin...I mean there are 3 in Mexico so Austin cannot be lacking!

It sounds like this is the best option! I am probably going to Austin and I was an econ major who took like 3 calc courses so I offer myself as a free teacher who anyone who needs it during camp LBJ (other than trig function derivation, the rest I am good at), sorry but stats is just not my strong suit got a horrible C+ (worst grade in college by far) in econometrics (apparently that is enough to get over the prerequisites but it is still terrible), so I am taking an online class to freshen up to get over the prerequisites but it is still terrible), so I am taking an online class to freshen up!

As an economist I will say this: STATA is the preferred program by economists. SAS by people in the business sector SPSS is the "user friendly" for lack of a meaner word of STATA (used by non-economists, it is by far the easiest to learn but also the most restrictive) R is the smart and future version of STATA and SAS with the added value of being capable of data mining, of being free and of having all the assets of math lab (and its equation and graphing solving capabilities), Iris (and its graph capabilities) and wolfram alpha´s mathematica (and all it´s data). I have used all 4, I am currently learning R and it is a bit harder (as it is a programming language and as a non-engineer it is hard) but after a month of self taught (with an expert coworker who I can go whenever I have questions) I can safely say it is BY FAR the best one as you can do all of them and so much more plus it is free! I will also say the free stats course at carnegie mellon may help a lot in teaching yourself as it teaches the very basic.

No idea!

Try the world bank if u r from a poor country!

I am glad I am not going to B school as if men in there are as creepy as Revolution, I will never date again, ever!!!!!

R is slowly gaining support among both SAS, STATA and SPSS users! The fact that it is free and has all the functions of math lab and stata combined (plus mathematica, etc) makes it most people prefered program, but as it involves a bit more programing some are scared of it!

I would however add that in Mexico Austin is much better known due to it's Latin American studies department and plenty of famous alumni (had had at least 2 presidential candidates I can count).

I underestimated myself, I had great GRE scores (164Q, 160V (not a native speaker), 4.5 W) but only a 3.4, thus I didn´t apply to many reach-but not super Ivy programs, I should have (Cornell, Yale, etc) should have also applied to more environmentaly focused programs like Yale and Duke. But hey got a full ride and got into awesome places! Maybe should have also tried for the development programs at GT where more people get scholarships, I just thought my low GPA was going to be a bigger problem!

Everyone is switching to R right now, if you can lean one, do that!