我当时是电话面试,直接和program director Chris和Sonya聊的。时间不长,大概30分钟。你可以搜一下我发过的post,我有把问题post上来。别紧张,放慢speed轻松地聊。 我觉得校友有校友的好处,trojan通常都很nice,我认识的几个人都非常好。和校友聊的时候on top of 工作学习背景,要让他感觉到和你打交道很容易,你能contribute,感受到你有热情,同时是个team player,未来会成为团结的alum对校友来说很重要。有关见不见面,我觉得你可以打个电话问问他先,看他怎么说,需要就飞过去一下,会显得你很重视。他如果说电话就行,那也无所谓我觉得。
最后再假装客观地sell一下Columbia哈。如果你说你的interest是planning的话,USC的SPPD里的planning确实不错,Columbia连前十都排不进。但如果你的interest是affordable housing的话,Columbia绝对不差。就市场来说,你想一想东岸和西岸哪边的affordable housing比较多。就学校来讲我们有两门P3的课,一门Capital and Infrastructure Projects还有一门专门的Affordable Housing Finance, Development and Policy的课。
In this forum, nearly all of the top real estate programmes, namely Columbia, USC, NYU, Cornell, U of Reading, LSE, Cambridge, have got the insider for the course information. However, it seems that only MIT does not have admitted applicants.
I am thinking if the admission competition for the MSRED at MIT is really much higher than others.