往届学长来发言

在这种普遍都没ACC. offer 的形势下,强烈呼吁 往届申请者来讲一下去年的情况

不要急，我想对于绝大多数从国内直接申请的同学来说，top school一般很难，而2,3 tier school往往要等top school做了决定之后再做定夺，加上到国内的邮件周期又长，所以没有消息是很正常的。

去年的这个时候，我也是一个offer也没有（仅只出国offer），天天收据信，每个学校都会发一遍电子据信，发一封平信据信，然后天天就是打开邮箱，看别人的thank you。就这样，我也干脆不指望了，在一家投行做起实习，于是就没时间想出国的事了。

然后是3月初的时候接到Rochester的电话通知，说已经把offer发给我了，3月中左右正式受到offer letter。所以现在没有消息还不要紧，再等等看，或者发邮件催一下。一旦有一个学校给你offer，你可以有机会争取更好的offer。Good luck, guys!

Yes, it's now a busy season for faculties in every school. Since they are recruiting new faculty at the same time, they will put higher priority on reviewing and selecting new faculty than on new phds. I guess that's why some schools won't contact new phd recruits until late February.

Just be patient and pray for good results.

I would think of top private schools (e.g., ivy league and others) the 1st tier, top public schools the 2nd tier, and others the 3rd tier schools. But this is a very rough classification. For example, U Michigan and UT are public shools but I think they are the 1st tier in accounting.