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I suspect that quitting now would harm your future prospects much more than finishing what you started and then transitioning fields.

TAing isn't even close to as big of a plus as research for grad school apps. Grad school is all about research, and evidence of research ability, rather than just potential, is huge.

If excellent job prospects and a decent salary are your primary goals, the graduate accounting program seems like your best bet; there is an overabundance of MBAs, but a perennial shortage of accountants.

As long as you have your undergraduate degree before you begin your graduate degree you should be fine, but you may want to check with the registrar of the graduate school.

If you are talking about borrowing the money, then no, there is no school name recognition worth that kind of debt.

After April 15th schools are trying to complete their classes and put the admissions season behind them, so an extension is unlikely. If the school gave you a week to decide and ignores your request for an extension, then you need to decide, by the deadline, based on the information you have.

When you accept an offer from one school you agree to decline offers from all others, so no, what you propose won't work. Also, if you require a student visa you might want to check with the school you choose to attend, because proof that you can support yourself for the entire duration of the program is often required.

It means a decision has been made, but you will have to wait up to three days before you will be informed of the decision by email - Good Luck!

You would need to ask at your current school if it acceptable to them that you take classes for a semester as a visiting student at another school, and then ask the other school if they will let you take specific graduate classes with them for a semester. It is not "normal" to do this in a master's program, but if you get permission from both schools you may be able to make it work - Good Luck!

The second sentence suggests that you have not been admitted, but will be admitted if you prove to them that you have sufficient funds to pay tuition for the entire program, and your living expenses during the entire program. One way they suggest you may be able to accomplish this is by finding an advisor willing to commit to supporting you financially during the duration of the program.

I didn't say the post was on the wrong forum, but rather suggested an alternative site that might better meet the OP's information needs.

thegradcafe is a forum for graduate school concerns. Since you are choosing an undergraduate school to attend you might get more assistance with your queries at collegeconfidential.com -- Good Luck!

I can't speak to your first question, but many PhD programs of the caliber to which you aspire will require you to complete their Master's even if you are admitted with a Master's you've earned elsewhere.

I just meant that a taught Master's rather than a research Master's is more acceptable for an applicant to PhD programs in the UK than the US. In STEM fields, US PhD programs care most about research experience, they expect more research experience from an applicant with a Master's than they do from an applicant with a Bachelor's, and as a corollary they tend to view taught Master's as terminal degrees, particularly at the caliber of US PhD program to which you aspire. This doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

With prior graduate degrees it seems odd that it would still take you five years to finish, but in any case, full-time enrollment does not mean taking classes full-time; you can register for research units to meet the full-time requirement.