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  1. Was this scholarship notice included with your admissions letter? Or did it arrive separately? Huge congrats on the scholarship - according to the MSFS website only 10-15% of 1st year students receive merit aid! I got into MSFS but didn't receive any merit aid. I'm still waiting on my SAIS aid package, so hopefully I'll get some free money from them *crosses fingers*
  2. I'm currently living in Asia but I don't have the time (or money) to get back to the US and attend the open houses for grad school. I've been accepted to Georgetown MSFS (no $), SIPA (no $), SAIS (still waiting to hear about aid - but probably no $) and also accepted to the Univ of Chicago CIR (received 1/3 tuition fellowship). I've read through all of their websites and feel that in terms of curriculum and the path I want to take, Georgetown and SAIS seem like the best fit. I want to focus intensely on economics (specifically trade, investment & govt-private sector relations) combined with studies on China policy. I'm really more interested in pursuing a professional, rather than an academic, program. Do you think it's a bad idea to not visit these schools? If you were in my shoes, is there anything that you would want to know or learn more about before committing to a particular program? I guess I'm just trying to brainstorm some ideas. In the meantime, I think the best course of action is to use Facebook to try and find students in these programs to get their truthful, unvarnished view of each program. Does anyone have any other tips or idea? Thanks.
  3. Any full-time job at NYU allows you to get tuition remission. You can work as an administrative assistant, researcher, librarian or even a janitor. You just need to be good enough to be admitted to the program and the program must allow you to matriculate as a part-time student (hence, the Law, Medical and Dental schools are not allowed). NYU counts the tuition remission as income - you basically pay taxes on the free tuition they give you. You can get an MBA, MPA or one of many other graduate degrees this way.
  4. Does anyone have any advice for getting off the waiting list? Unfortunately, I don't know any current students or alumni from the MALD program who could write me a recommendation Also, is it safe to assume that if you get in off the waitlist that you get $0 in funding? Can you try to get funding for the 2nd year at Fletcher? Bueller???
  5. I too got accepted to Chicago's CIR and received a nice financial aid package (1/3 tuition fellowship). I'm still waiting to hear from Georgetown & SAIS, but this is the most generous aid package I have received thus far. The fact that I can finish my MA in a year at Chicago already cuts my cost in half, when compared to the other private IR programs. Now I got to wait & see what happens with these other schools
  6. I'm currently in Asia and "brand name" is everything. Especially if you have Ivy League credentials - they go crazy for that stuff. Other programs might be better in terms of rankings and actual experiences, but if you want instant international credibility all you need to say is the name of an Ivy League school. It's sad, but true Example: My gf just applied for her MBA and got into one of the T3 schools in the nation (non-Ivy). However, a survey of international business leaders said they considered a Yale MBA to be 2nd only to a Harvard MBA. Yale MBA is generally considered to be perhaps the 15th best in the country; it's definitely nowhere near as good as Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, Univ of Chicago or INSEAD. Nonetheless, international business leaders love the Yale name and the MBA gets a boost in reputation simply because Yale undergrad is so good. We like to pretend like this stuff doesn't matter and to a certain extent in the US, it does not. But once you get outside the US, it's a completely different ballgame. The last thing you want to do is defend the relevancy of your degree and explain where you went to school. Keep this in mind when making your admission decisions. Think long & hard about where you want to end up in your career.
  7. Admitted, but no $$$ This makes me very happy, as it means I'm going to be a very competitive applicant at all my other schools :shock: I'd be very happy to go to any of the top 4 schools I applied to (SIPA, SAIS, MSFS, MALD) so my decision will probably come down to the C.R.E.A.M.
  8. From what I've heard about SIPA is that they give the vast majority of students a decent aid package for their second year at the school. But yeah, it's very pricey. Check this out: http://sipa.columbia.edu/resources_serv ... s_aid.html
  9. I also applied. It sounds like a small program, so I'm interested to get a better idea of their acceptance rate. Good luck.
  10. Admissions office at SAIS says that they are mailing out decisions on March 20. No email, no calls. I was on an admissions chat session last night with them.
  11. Head of the Dean for America campaign at my university Interned at CFR Worked for a consulting firm for 3.5 years - we managed internal polling, research and strategy for tons of Democrats during their campaigns (The Prez, Senators, Governors, etc.). We also did lots of research for private sector clients. I'd say my job experience straddles the fine line between government and business
  12. Get a job at NYU and get free tuition. You'll finish your degree at Wagner in about 3.5 years and it will basically cost you only about $10K A few of my friends did this and are very happy.
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