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I got in as well! Got the email at 6 pm DC time. I am a current student at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, so I will do the 5 semester option. Do you guys know if there is a thread for those heading to SAIS next fall?

It's great to come in contact with another admitted student. I sent a PM to you already.

I know the Nanjing program is small, but is there anyone here that applied to Nanjing? It would be nice to chat about the program with someone that's planning to attend. I was admitted to the two year master's. And even though I still don't have the monies to attend, I did get a nice fellowship.

Saiser, I was admitted to the Nanjing campus for the MA program. Do you have any classmates that have spent a year in Nanjing? what is the general reputation of the Center among China Studies concentrators? what about among the faculty?. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I got into Nanjing! I am happy, but I wish I had gained admission into the Washington program as well. Financial aid information will come later this week through the postal service. I'd rather not share any other feelings, as I might . . . well, be able to get some perspective in a few hours/days.

As long as you don't want one of the two capped concentrations (International Development IDEV or IR/ERE, which stands for Energy Resources and Environment) you can pretty much choose any concetration.

Dinged. Still waiting for the Nanjing campus decision. . . I might be forced to get some work experience after all. I have an interview at Bain & Company in a few hours. Wish me luck!!!

Someone just posted a thread claiming to have been accepted into SAIS already. The poster also said that he would be able to go there for free; he also didn't specify why going to SAIS would be free. Has anyone gotten their decision? Edit: I found this in the results page: "Full tuition fellowship. Focus in relations with Russia. Thesis on censorship in Russia, 1 year study abroad, interned with Moscow times, recognized as Dean's Distinguished Graduate at my ivy league school, various scholarships. Committee said I barely beat out a similar but less qualified applicant."

I did not apply to either school (due to lack of work experience), but I have a friend that spent a semester at SIPA. My friend thoroughly enjoyed her time there and still meets with the friends she made there (people studying there for the entire 2 years). She felt the quality of the student body was in general very high, and she was in awe when she heard some of her classmates backgrounds. This means that while people might split hairs as to exactly how many "really talented" people there actually are at SIPA, we can safely assume that there are enough such students. She also did tell me about a few of the "negatives" as she perceived them. They are as follow: The teachers are incredibly busy and are in general not terribly responsive to students. One of the implications of this is that her writing did not improve much. In the institution where she took the remaining year and a half classes were very small and teachers really pushed them (and taught them) how to write impeccably and compellingly.Some classes are LARGE, which made her feel as if she wasn't being able to participate enough and get more from the experience.She said that some of the big name professors were not very effective teachers, and that after asking some of her classmates the majority of the people did not quite understand the material being taught. I realize this is just one persons experience and that similar situation might arise at almost any school if a set of variables come together, but this is as much as I can contribute. Feel free to send me a PM. I might be able to help you connect to a current student or recent graduate, if you are interested in that.

I thought it migt be good to resurect this topic. I am doing so in hopes that other people can further elaborate on the overall quality of the program.

Have you had the chance to visit SAIS? Or have you talked to a professor, a current student, or an alumni of the China Studies program? If so, I would love to hear your impressions of the program. I've had talked to a current student (non China Studies), seen Mike Lampton (Director of China Sudies) speak through C-Span and You Tube, read his latest book "The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds", read on forums about the quality of the program, talked to my cousin's wife that went to HKS, but felt that SAIS is superior etc. What is a little frustrating is that I still haven't been able to talk to someone that is a current/past China Studies concentrator. I've thought of contacting the school, but I guess at this point it wouldn't make much sense unless I'm admitted. Edit: Are you considering spending some time in Nanjing?

I will look for the post myself, but it woudl be nice if you could share the link as well. If I get to it first I will post it here, so that the rest of us can follow. Edit: I found the link: http://www.thegradca...=georgetown&t=a Does anyone know if there is a way of knowing which user posted this? I would love to confirm that it was indeed SFS. It seems so odd that no one else has gotten anything. This does seem to give credibility to the notion that we will find out soon.

May the adcomm agree with you!

High Ugrad GPA, not-so-great GMAT, good LORs, and put lots of time and effort into writing my SOP and Analytical Essay. I have no full-time work experience, but I have great internships, in different countries, under my belt, and I am also fluent in 3 languages and decent at another one. BTW you rocked the GMAT!

As the name indicates, the program takes five semesters to complete rather than four. You spend 3 semesters in Washington and 2 semesters in Nanjing, and you graduate with an M.A. from SAIS and a one year graduate certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. The Nanjing campus student population is composed of about 40% Chinese 40% Americans and 10% of people with other nationalities. While at Nanjing, you take almost all your classes in Chinese (with Chinese profesors), which is really unique as you are not taking language classes, but rather classes in the language. Currently, if you are admitted into the Washington campus you can go to the Nanjing campus without completing another application, providing you have the required Chinese proficiency level. The minimum proficiency required for the certificate (i.e. spending a year in Nanjing) is the HSK 5 or so many points in the CAL test. The Nanjing campus also has its own M.A. program, the language requirement for that one is a tad higher: HSK 6 or a few more point in the CAL. I meet the HSK requirements, but know nothing about the CAL. I applied to both campus separately, for an M.A. at both. The master's program in Nanjing is very new (the first class entered in 2006), and you basically take the same classes as the certificate students, plus a three course sequence that will prepare you to write a thesis. The thesis must be written in Chinese (with Chinese students writing theirs in English) and that's what you mostly occupy yourself with during the second year. People that only get into (or only applied to) Nanjing's M.A., cannot take classes in Washington. They do, however, get an M.A. degree from both Nanjing University in China and from SAIS in The States, have access to the career services in Washington, and are considered SAIS alumni. More info at: http://nanjing.jhu.edu/index.html Hope you find the description to be brief, yet thorough.