raven121

Hi, Do you have relatives or siblings who can help you with showing bank balance or helping you fund studies partially? Are there relatives living in that area who can help you financially? Also there are Fullbright scholarships for international students-please check with your local US embassy if your program and country qualify. Also look around for external funding.There are many organizations-look at portals like scholars4dev,scholarportals,studygreen etc-they have a lot of different funds for different purposes. Also can your government provide funding-oftentimes governments of countries provide scholarships to their citizens to study abriad. Lastly, do you really want to go to this place or do you want to wait next year to apply again(although no guarantee of funding). If you really want to go to this program, then you can make it happen. It might be hard but if you are persistent, you might be able to manage part-time jobs and fund yourself. I know of someone who went on an unfunded PhD and did not have funds. But that person persisted a lot and looked into many places and found TA and RA work as well as obtained residency(which lowered tuition for them).They could show enough bank balance to get a visa and had to pay for everything the first semester. Life got easier for them afterwards for the reasons mentioned before.

Hi, I got rejected from a ton of PhD programs in Economics. I got admitted to Chicago's MAPSS(Masters in Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis concentration) as well as the MA in Computational Social Science(MACSS). Which one do you think is a better choice for applying to PhD programs in Economics? MAPSS is 1 yr while MACSS is 2 years.I thought about the Econ concentration when applying within the MAPSS but had a strong hunch that I probably would not be selected(don't know why.... so didn't apply to that one).