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Where did you take the online class?

You are an international student from a developing country; the degree is not worth sticker price, period. Just calculate how many years you will have to work locally to earn the $50000 difference.

Probably International Environment and Resource Policy, and another...

Here: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Courses But why not ask for a physical bulletin from the office?

I also like the option of the consortium offerings, although I am not sure if I will end up using that option. I am actually really excited enough by the course spread at the school itself - Fletcher has a comprehensive enough bulletin with a wide range of classes, and I was looking through it the other day and marking a class here, a class there. I have lived in Boston before and, yes, it is a pretend-important town with lot's of undergraduates, so get ready to feel old.

I was born outside the US and I had never even heard of SAIS before I started looking at graduate schools, and had heard of Georgetown as a place to train excellent US diplomats. On the other hand, as my family is a UN family, we met Fletcher people. Part of that is reflected in that it is the oldest school for IR, so naturally there is that bias. Further, I know several people with Fletcher degrees working in the Middle East etc., all for employers other than the US government, so the idea of tapping into that network is very attractive. Of course, when I started researching schools, looking at rankings etc. I tiered my schools and my choices, binding Fletcher to Georgetown and SAIS. I particularly liked the idea of SAIS as so many people work for multilateral organizations, so I was hoping for a bit of money from them, but all's well that end's well. This was my thought process, and I am sure it will be different for other people. One should just be clear about it and then relax. As far as the financing goes, I had a terrible ordeal with my undergraduate debt from a US college, and from now on I hew firmly to the idea of having as much loose change in my pocket as possible. I would rather take a trip to either south africa or brazil, or either buy a car, or, in this terrible economy, gifts for my boss.

I'm also heading up to Fletcher - I told myself I would be happy with any one of SAIS, MSFS or Fletcher, and while I don't like the idea of New England winters, everything else seems just about right. The aid package is quite generous and I am looking forward to a mentally less-fraught degree... Applied: SAIS, Gtown MSFS, GWU, AU, Fletcher, Yale, LBJ Accepted: SAIS(8k), AU SIS (waiting), Fletcher(20k), MSFS(0$), Elliott (10K), LBJ (waiting), Yale ($17k)