Kienzle

Four days ago. Check your spam folder maybe?

Yeah, I received mine a few days ago.

Cheers, hope we cross paths in D.C.! also re: SAIS vs SFS I also thought SAIS seemed a bit more professional. If I remember correctly, when I checked out the graduate employment stats at both programs, SAIS had a higher percentage of students going into consulting/finance than SFS. At this level you're splitting hairs though - both are incredible programs and offer the tools you need to go private sector or work for government.

Right, I'm interested in policy careers so DC is definitely the place to be. As to the night classes - I don't want to take only SSP classes (otherwise I would have applied to that program) but intend to take the security focus at MASIA, hence my concern was more the quality of faculty and who else is in those cross-listed classes. I asked my friend who's in the MASIA program now and he said people can just enroll in whatever classes they want, e.g. finance through McDonough or international arbitration at the law school. Apparently the SFS offers a lot of these courses as well though. As for SAIS, there are more mandatory quant courses, plus you get the dual degree with international economics which might stand out to some employers. The other thing he said re: SAIS is that he hears their programs are very siloed by country whereas MASIA has more crossovers between Korea, China, Japan and SE Asia people.

Ok, good to know and corroborates with my feeling that GT is probably the better program. Time to apply to FLAS!

Got into MASIA as well as GW's Asian Studies Program. Can anyone compare the programs at all? GW is offering some money but MASIA isn't and the sticker price is giving me hesitation (though I can afford both). For what it's worth, my background is in China and Taiwan. I'm hoping to focus on security policy as well as start learning Japanese since my Chinese is in a pretty good place already.