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zjppdozen

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  1. No. The program I have applied sent results for both master and PhD at the same day.
  2. If you are not an international student, it does not matter if your degree can be conferred before the start of your Ph.D. program. If you are an international student, you should advise your international advisor to release your SEVIS ID as soon as possible after your degree have been conferred because your new school can issue you a new I-20 as long as they have received your SEVIS ID.
  3. Why you want to do that? No one will consider if or not you have been accepted by other programs in their admission process .
  4. It depends on what types of policy problems you are interested in. Go to the program websites and check their curriculum. If you are interested in applied methodology in solving complex policy problems, you should choose the institutions who could offer courses in statistics, applied econometrics, program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, mathematical modeling, and operation research.
  5. I think maybe the text marked in red are the programs that he has applied while the school names which are marked in green are the universities who have offered admission to him.
  6. It's not hard for you to get an unpaid intern job from the local government, but it's tough for international students to seek full-time employment in public sectors. Honestly, international students who are majored in public policy/administration have found difficulties in finding employment in the U.S. job markets for years. I come from the top 2 policy school in the U.S. and of the ten international students in my cohort, only one was employed by Deloitte in Sacramento, but this student minored in Business Analytics during her masters in public policy. Of the other nine students, two were accepted into the Ph.D. program (all of them have strong quantitative background), and all of the others returned to their home country.
  7. I was accepted into a doctoral program in my dream school a month ago. Before I submit my application, the program said they would try their best to fund every student. But today I received notification from the graduate school to ask me to submit my financial statement for my graduate education because the department did not provide financial support to me. Then I emailed the program coordinator, and he says: "At this time, I do not have any updates on funding opportunities for you. I would suggest that you submit a financial statement that shows you will be paying for your graduate education. We will continue to help you find funding, of course. We have found that the search for funding can take time, but the majority of our Ph.D. students have secured funding either by the start of the fall semester or by the start of the spring semester." Is this common? Should I accept this offer? Studying at the doctoral level without sufficient funding is almost a nightmare but this is the program I really want to go. What should I do next? What should I tell the department?
  8. Just curious. I was accepted into a Ph.D. program in UW-Madison. I received acceptance notification from the department coordinator three weeks ago. But as of today, no formal acceptance letter was issued either by the department or the graduate school. No funding information to follow up. Only one invitation from the department ask accepted applicants to join in their campus visit hold in the mid-March. I emailed the program coordinator to ask for information about funding. He only replied that the department had forwarded my information to all faculties and staff to help with the funding process. This is vague information and I start assuming there is no guaranteed funding in the department to support PhD students to study in UW - Madison? Is this weird? Before I submit my application, the program said all of the Ph.D. applicants are automatically considered of all available scholarships, fellowships, and graduate assistantships. But now it seems there is no guaranteed funding for the program to admit new doctoral students. I noticed someone who got accepted into the other program into the UW - Madison also faced this dilemma. They admit students first and then start looking for the fundings in their department? I think any decision of acceptance should be made as long as the department has sufficient funding to support students to study in the program. The offer of admission I received from other universities always come with funding information and formal acceptance letter from the department. So I am curious is this a common practice for UW - Madison to accept students without considering any kinds of funding before they make any decision? Or the students need to contact faculties in the department to look for their own funding opportunities after get accepted?
  9. Similar problems with my acceptance into the University of Wisconsin but I am not in C.S. major. The department only notified me of my acceptance into the program but did not mention anything about funding. The department just said they want students to reach out to the designated advisor to discuss the potential funding opportunities. It's weird. I think the funding should be guaranteed if you decide to admit Ph.D. student. It's a common practice for UW-Madison not mention anything pertaining funding in their offer of admission email right?
  10. Hi, I got accepted into a university which I really want to go. The department has assigned me an academic advisor and the department wants me to reach out to the advisor as soon as possible to discuss the study plan, course selection, and potential funding/research opportunities. I sent a polite email to my advisor two days ago but got no response from his end? What should I do? Any thoughts? My advisor is the POI I mentioned in my personal statement and he is also the chair of the admission committee. We have short correspondence before I submit my application. Now I am wondering if he really wants to take me into his lab.
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