标题: US Accounting PhD application experience [打印本页] 作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-16 19:35 标题: US Accounting PhD application experience Deleted deleted deleted作者: bill2008 时间: 2011-4-16 19:44
Wow. Big Cong!The only explanation is that LZ graduated from a top US university. Plus very strong recommendation letters.作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-16 19:47
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You didn't specify the reason you were admitted. Everybody was admitted for a reason.Judging from your application list, you were either stupid (which I believe you are not) or had particular strength.作者: bill2008 时间: 2011-4-16 20:03
Sorry I read too quickly. You already said you studied in Australia.作者: Tripleg 时间: 2011-4-16 20:13
To the poster: I am amazed at your application result given your average profile. Are you telling a story or the truth?
This further convinces me that the admissions are finicky and kind of a crapshoot. Let's take a look at the admissions requirements:
Transcripts: Are these a reliable indicator of a person's potential? It depends. Also, it is difficult to compare the rigor of academic study across schools and programs.
Recommendations: How much do they really say about an applicant's academic potential? Common sense tells us that they are not reliable in many cases.
Statement of purpose: Anyone can tell a story about her life and work.
GMAT/GRE: These are the shown to be a reliable predictor of success at graduate school. The question, though, is that for many programs these are not sufficiently weighted.
No wonder sometimes the professors complain that the students accepted turn out not to be as bright as their application credentials suggested initially. We anticipate changes brought to the admissions process.
I tend to believe that the Chinese admissions system based on exams is not without merits.作者: bill2008 时间: 2011-4-16 20:24
Given the other replies besides Columbia, assuming the information is true, there is another reason that LZ didn't specify. (perhaps extreme humility?)作者: Tripleg 时间: 2011-4-16 20:33
Actually I studied in Australia.
-- by 会员 fowwiee (2011/4/16 19:47:57)
Now, where is the poster? Our curiosity about your story has not yet been satisfied.作者: ailele 时间: 2011-4-16 20:50
Cong to LZ: Hope you will enjoy your life at Columbia. (作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-16 21:18
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lz, are you a gal? just curious作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-16 22:44
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If you have 750Gmat score, then don't say its an average score because average= 75% so 600 is average. 恭喜楼主 750GMAT+好的推荐信进columbia也算正常了。 楼主建议讲讲申请NYU，UPenn, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, 跟cornell的经验吗？ 对这几间有兴趣. 还有楼主既然申请了这么多名校为什么没有申请最好的Chicago?作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-17 09:23
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nyu大部分faculty都是犹太人, 对澳大利亚那边的推荐信不感冒很正常.
skinner就是澳大利亚人, 录取他两个老乡, 或者熟悉学校毕业的人也没啥稀奇的.作者: majia20112011 时间: 2011-4-17 13:08 标题: 貌似LZ毕业的学校就是Skinner的母校 这个学校貌似还出了Ball, Brown, Dechow, Sloan等一大批人。 Chicago是很注重connection的。作者: fowwiee 时间: 2011-4-17 14:25
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Way to go, man! Congratulations! As for PhD application, I think the two advantages you have, that is, strong references and research experience, are definitely those that are valued greatly by all the top schools. Especially if one can get three strong recommendation letters from professors in top US schools, that itself signals that you are potentially a good student. Hope we get to see each other in the States~BTW, some CDers tend to be critical when they do not understand how you get admitted. Do not take it personally. I am pretty sure that you deserve what you got.作者: ChinaHawk 时间: 2011-4-18 22:59
hi LZ 给你留了站内信，不介意的话烦请看下 Thx~~作者: 炒汇 时间: 2011-4-19 02:10
Gu肯花1个多小时挽留你说明你还是很优秀的。 umn的theory很好，empirical这两年也还行。我想他劝你不去clumbia的原因可能是那里老师不管学生，这一点对中国人来说还是很hurt的。 不过clumbia还是出了zhang xiaojun的说。作者: kndx5 时间: 2011-4-19 06:14
it seems gu always talks to students they recruited to persuade them to decline other offers, and it really works sometimes. But it does not make any sense to turn down columbia for minnesota even if LZ wants to focus analytical. I think one concern of columbia is there are too many chinese students. But, yes, they do graduate xiaojun zhang and jing liu, who are top chinese accounting researchers.
作者: saish 时间: 2011-12-3 11:13
难怪能申到 原来是读了honours的。。。而且GMAT还那么高。。。作者: acct2008 时间: 2011-12-3 15:17
Congratulations! I guess Cornell rejects applicants because they focus on experiment research.作者: Besteffort 时间: 2014-1-4 00:20
Thanks for sharing, mate! great efforts, great story. I know quite a while has passed since the last post in this section, but I did feel very lucky having found such an informative case like yours today!
Just out of curiosity, what class division you got for your honours? as I know a 1st class honours and 2nd upper class honours from an Australian institute, in many cases, could make a big difference in application outcome especially when you are applying to top US business schools. Thx!作者: malig 时间: 2020-3-16 10:31
。 Chicago是很注重connection的。