Darden今年怎么了？

刚才看BW，发现上面说darden今年变化很大

给国际学生的贷款前途未卜，scholarship只给第一轮，essay题目也大变，career goal essay成了what matters to you most...  darden今年怎么会有这么多变化？不给国际学生贷款叫我们怎么去呢？！

有没有darden的同学提供一些内部消息？

下面是从BW上转过来的。。。

At present there is no guaranteed loan for international students. The Gate loan program is only available to students that are at Darden now, but for the ones that are applying now the new loan program is still being worked out between the school and the banks. Last I head was that the new program will be introduced in january but I don't know any other details (for example if it will cover tuition+living expenses and if it will be available without a co-signer). Sooo I guess we have to wait till January. And the admissions directror says that the November dead line is the last deadline for scholarship consideration... I know this is super wieird but that is what she said in one interview on the Darden podcast series . That lady has really messed up Darden Every other school gives scholarships in the later rounds also.

我今年也申Darden了，但是10月初交申请到现在，状态一直都是Received. 本以为10月初没什么人交申请，应该能处理得快一些，没想到一直拖到现在都没有处理。有谁的申请Status改变的，麻烦告知一声，谢谢。

今年的Darden的题也很难写~ 三篇Essay全是关于professional的，only one dimension，而且三篇加一起只限1100字，好像很难把自己想说的都表达出来，特别是对我这种工作时间短的。各位申darden的怎么看？

loan是由于美国Subprime mortgage crunch,原来与Darden合作的Gate Loan(很多其他的school也用这个loan）可能是财务上出现了点问题，（具体的原因还不是很清楚）。目前学校正在寻找替代者，问题明年肯定解决。

round 1的deadline是Nov.1,所有的申请材料到时才会开始处理。今年的essays题目变化很多，说难也难，但如果对Darden有些了解的话，其实还是比较容易的！

祝大家好运。Darden 2009

关心钱的事情。。。真的没贷款吗？好像说的不明确喔。各位怎么看？

另外，他们回信给我好慢好慢啊，过了10多天才回，态度也不太热情。。唉。。。

除M7外，TOP15中的学校我最喜欢Darden.

但是我最讨厌他家的adcom~ 效率是我遇到的所有adcom中最最低下的！写信问个事，别的学校最多两天就回了，darden的过了十天都没消息。怒~

Good learning experience.  See if you can figure out a way to encourage them to respond to you.