关于申请金融PhD，本科gpa低，请教有经验者

hutty2000

以下是引用stokowski在2006-6-5 1:52:00的发言：
Rumor said there are 600 applicants for UIUC's finance phd, and 300 of them have 4.0 GPA.
If you are a undergraduate, you must face tons of perfect or nearly perfect students in the fight for offer.

Be honest, if you don't journal paper or nobel level recommendation, your chance to get into programs around 50 or 60 is pretty slim.  Even perfect GMAT or GRE couldn't save you because now everybody knows Asian applicants' grade is overvalued.

So, one way is to study in prestigous master program in U.S. (no matter which major) and get a perfect grade.
A outstanding performance there could probably make committee ignore your seemingly lousy under GPA, and also it could earn recommandations from U.S. faculties.


However, I must warn you first that more than half applicants are doing the exactly same thing.

So you should set a further goal of pursuing nice research when you're in the master program.

A good paper could demostrate a lot of your ability and cover most of your weakness.

你的消息不准确地！我的UIUC教授Lynge亲口告诉我每年的金融学phd申请数量为300左右，但150多是中国大陆的呵呵，基本上一个也不收，因为我上课时没见过中国大陆的金融学phd。

miracles

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/finance/phd/studentDirectory2.aspx

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yazi123

非常同情楼主，我的情况和你类似。有时做梦都想找点关系，改改成绩弥补弥补，可是怕老美写信去查证啊，不知道老美是不是录取学生前都要查证成绩，如果这样，就死了这条心吧。 降低择校标准是个明智的选择。