Thank you! I'm an international student so it's good to hear that. I was in contact with him throughout the application cycle and he emailed me back in mid-February saying I got in but not sure about the funding yet and asked me to wait for the official letter, so I thought it's another department/person who is in charge of the funding part.
I'm curious if you know the GHD program at SFS well? I got accepted to GHD with 75% aid, so I'm very torn right now between these two. I like the MIDP better for its analytical rigor but the 41K scholarship from GHD is really attractive (my two concerns for GHD is 1) not as quantitative 2) intl students graduated from this program mostly went back to their home country and worked in govt. I would prefer to stay in the U.S. and work for either research institutions or multilateral org). I wanted to negotiate more money from MIDP but I don't think they can match the GHD amount either way lol