决定也今年申请b-school的phd了

I tend to choose different programs in different universities.

For example, in Columbia Business School, I'll choose the program focusing on risk, decision and operation, which is co-organised both by the business school and the department of Industrial Engineering and Operation Research which is right the department I'm working in right now.

And in some other universities, I may choose programs in Finance, since my mathematical background is relatively strong.

I'm right now at the very beginning stage of application and to be completely honest, I really don't think a Master's degree in Columbia will help me a lot. Coz, you know, there're always some people who're outstandingly perfect around some corners of the world.

In my apartment, I know two Phd students in Columbia Business School. One of them is from Spain and the other's from Russia. I have to say that they are really really  brilliant and I always feel shame when they met me in the hall way, trying to chat with me about any of the recent political or business movements taken by the Chinese Government, while most of the time, I myself found out that their ideas were more rational and wonderful than mine.

So, as we all know, the standard of admission to a top Business School is very high and I just wanna have a try.

Wish all of us good luck!:-)

While, Thank you a lot.;-)

Actually, I've got a lot of support from my current Master adviser. He's a great professor in my department and he's from South Korea. So, to all the asian students, he tried to make us set very high academic goals and to realize the fact that we're much more talented than most of the other students from America or Europe.

Anyway, Thank you very much for your great advice!

Wish you great success too! hehe

Be confident, man! The fact doesn't necessarily mean that you are not outstanding that there are always some people who are more competitive in some aspects than you (Like a GMAT sentence:d. I do believe your Ms from CU and your engineering,esp. OR, background should put you at a favorable position in application.

We share much in background and target programs. I'm applying Decision science/OM too. Discussion is welcome.

Maybeaways终于又献身江湖了，你的条件应该是很有竞争力的，起码比我有竞争力，呵呵。似乎我们的教育背景跨度都挺大的，需要给个合理的解释。

UGPA也折的偶及其难受，四年平均85.4/100，欧觉得还算不错的了，但按照A4/B3/C2的折法也就勉强3.5，也觉得这种比较办法可能不大公平。

偶本来没打算申Columbia，因为它的商学院太牛，但decision方向不是太牛，这样对偶这样都各方面都比较平均的人极其不利，但是实在找不到合适的学校了，就索性放手博一把。这个方向04、05年分别从大约100申请者中招了4和3个学生，竞争还是比较激烈的。不知道今年招几个？有没有在读的同胞呢？欢迎交流(cnsnowfield(A) hotmail.com)，但愿能一起奋斗在哥大。

呵呵，一起奋斗吧

不过，我现在很想换个地方，因为觉得纽约不是做学问的地方……想换到相对荒凉一点的地方，呵呵