[分享]先道歉,再报OFFER

XieXiaoyu

我这个恐怕要被人狠砸...

前段时间决定去工作了，我自己也happy了，家里人也同意了。

没想到后来iowa的offer一来，我家里人开始持续轰炸，非要我继续读书。哈哈读书我喜欢阿，但是要据掉已经接受的 job offer让我很郁闷。

于是爆发战争.......战败的我宣布无条件投降：厚着脸皮把工作据掉了，又开始忙申请。

 

到今天差不多定下来了去ohio state，报告一下吧。

按时间顺序，这样可能更有参考价值

1. campus visit invitation from Boston College.

(around 10 candidates was invited, but not at one time, 5 of them will be admitted.)

2. interview with U Indiana.

(when I first time email them, they said I'm merely within the top 15, but later I got an interview with them. During the interview, I sensed that my chance is not bad, of course I was not sure.  What I'm saying is maybe you don't need to be within the top 3 of their list to get and admission.)

(Because I was not defeated in my battle with my family at that time, I told them I gonna go to job in the interview. That absulotely killed me right away)

3. Interview & offer from University of Iowa.

(The interview came in one afternoon, the prof explicitly told me my chance is very high. Then I got my first offer on phone next morning. They sent out 4 offers this year.)

4. Wait-list from Ohio State University.

(Shortly after offer from Iowa, I got informed that I'm on the wait-list of OSU, "I can not make a commitment, but during my years here, I've been here for 7 years, every year we moved on to our wait-list." said by the prof. That happened again this year, so I got offer from them after a couple weeks. So if you are only on a wait-list now, your chance is not that low. Although there won't be many people reject their offer, the wait-list itself is short, sometimes YOU ONLY is the wait-list)

5. Got interview opportunity from City University of New York.  PSU invited me to do a campus visit / interview.  USC told me that I was on its wait-list, and wanted me to  visit it in April. Those three almost happened at the same day.

(No long interested in PSU and CUNY, given I already got offer from U Iowa at that time, so I ganna reject them. Still want to take a look at the USC, but almost decided to go OSU, almost.)

6. Campus visit at Boston College

(Their program is good, students are very international. But the city of Boston sucks! Also the campus is so small relative to UW-Madison, and all the building are crowded. I admire it academically, but don't like it personally. I don't know whether this feeling comes from my 2 years' living in wild middle west....)

(They ask many 'technical' questions. But they are all reasonable and based on your transcript. For example, they looked at mine and asked:" You took a game theory class, so tell us something about Nash equilibrium."  That was the worst interview I did,  I should have been more prepared. I still got no reply today, so very likely that 5 doesn't include me )

7. Campus visit at U Iowa

(Their campus is very like UW's, big, wide and clear, which is something I like very much. The students there are all nice. Amazingly, there're many Chinese students. In my chat with those profs, I feel they are very proud with their Chinese students. So maybe more CDer should apply for it next year.  More importantly, althought the contract is 20 hours, the actual work load of assistantship is relatively low, 8 hours per work on average, 10 hours in busy time. Suffice to say, after visiting both, U Iowa turned out to be better than BC for me. Btw, BC ranks higher indeed, but not enough to differentiate their graduates' placement from U Iowa.)

8. Offer from Ohio State University.

On phone, just came at the moment I walked out of U Iowa B-school. Freakingly lucky! Now the only two left on my list and may be above OSU is USC and CMU, I don't think I'm lucky enough to get offer from CMU, so USC will be my last try.

P.S. The universities that already rejected me:

Uw-Madison, UIUC, Duke, Rochester, Univ of Washington, Emory, UPENN (of course)

As you can see, I'm freakingly lucky to get offer from OSU. Also, I find it wise to apply for at least 15 universities.

 

Good Luck for all.

For those who didn't have offer yet, believe me, there will be a offer storm in April. So, be cool.

My profile can be find easily in my first and second post, allow me not to do the repeating work, thx.

I'll continue report, and when I make my final decision, I'll let you know.

sm1

Cong!

Why was you defeated? You should pursue your individual career goals but not your family's career goals.

neo1001

以下是引用XieXiaoyu在2007-3-26 0:32:00的发言：

我这个恐怕要被人狠砸...

前段时间决定去工作了，我自己也happy了，家里人也同意了。

没想到后来iowa的offer一来，我家里人开始持续轰炸，非要我继续读书。哈哈读书我喜欢阿，但是要据掉已经接受的 job offer让我很郁闷。

于是爆发战争.......战败的我宣布无条件投降：厚着脸皮把工作据掉了，又开始忙申请。

到今天差不多定下来了去ohio state，报告一下吧。

按时间顺序，这样可能更有参考价值

1. campus visit invitation from Boston College.

(around 10 candidates was invited, but not at one time, 5 of them will be admitted.)

2. interview with U Indiana.

(when I first time email them, they said I'm merely within the top 15, but later I got an interview with them. During the interview, I sensed that my chance is not bad, of course I was not sure.  What I'm saying is maybe you don't need to be within the top 3 of their list to get and admission.)

(Because I was not defeated in my battle with my family at that time, I told them I gonna go to job in the interview. That absulotely killed me right away)

3. Interview & offer from University of Iowa.

(The interview came in one afternoon, the prof explicitly told me my chance is very high. Then I got my first offer on phone next morning. They sent out 4 offers this year.)

4. Wait-list from Ohio State University.

(Shortly after offer from Iowa, I got informed that I'm on the wait-list of OSU, "I can not make a commitment, but during my years here, I've been here for 7 years, every year we moved on to our wait-list." said by the prof. That happened again this year, so I got offer from them after a couple weeks. So if you are only on a wait-list now, your chance is not that low. Although there won't be many people reject their offer, the wait-list itself is short, sometimes YOU ONLY is the wait-list)

5. Got interview opportunity from City University of New York.  PSU invited me to do a campus visit / interview.  USC told me that I was on its wait-list, and wanted me to  visit it in April. Those three almost happened at the same day.

(No long interested in PSU and CUNY, given I already got offer from U Iowa at that time, so I ganna reject them. Still want to take a look at the USC, but almost decided to go OSU, almost.)

6. Campus visit at Boston College

(Their program is good, students are very international. But the city of Boston sucks! Also the campus is so small relative to UW-Madison, and all the building are crowded. I admire it academically, but don't like it personally. I don't know whether this feeling comes from my 2 years' living in wild middle west....)

(They ask many 'technical' questions. But they are all reasonable and based on your transcript. For example, they looked at mine and asked:" You took a game theory class, so tell us something about Nash equilibrium."  That was the worst interview I did,  I should have been more prepared. I still got no reply today, so very likely that 5 doesn't include me )

7. Campus visit at U Iowa

(Their campus is very like UW's, big, wide and clear, which is something I like very much. The students there are all nice. Amazingly, there're many Chinese students. In my chat with those profs, I feel they are very proud with their Chinese students. So maybe more CDer should apply for it next year.  More importantly, althought the contract is 20 hours, the actual work load of assistantship is relatively low, 8 hours per work on average, 10 hours in busy time. Suffice to say, after visiting both, U Iowa turned out to be better than BC for me. Btw, BC ranks higher indeed, but not enough to differentiate their graduates' placement from U Iowa.)

8. Offer from Ohio State University.

On phone, just came at the moment I walked out of U Iowa B-school. Freakingly lucky! Now the only two left on my list and may be above OSU is USC and CMU, I don't think I'm lucky enough to get offer from CMU, so USC will be my last try.

P.S. The universities that already rejected me:

Uw-Madison, UIUC, Duke, Rochester, Univ of Washington, Emory, UPENN (of course)

As you can see, I'm freakingly lucky to get offer from OSU. Also, I find it wise to apply for at least 15 universities.

Good Luck for all.

For those who didn't have offer yet, believe me, there will be a offer storm in April. So, be cool.

My profile can be find easily in my first and second post, allow me not to do the repeating work, thx.

I'll continue report, and when I make my final decision, I'll let you know.

Cong and good luck!

kellylau

I think OSU is better than USC~ especially in finance.

XieXiaoyu

As for the defeat.
I realized that if I insist my way, someone gonna be unhappy for a long time. And if they are unhappy, I will be unhappy for a longer time.
So, sometimes you have to give up your idea for stupid reasons.

Luckily I got a good offer, that compensates  a lot.

zrppp

Hi  Congrats!!!  mind if I ask have you declined other offers yet?  I am still waiting for some other schools.  Thanks a lot!

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-3-26 2:36:27编辑过]

jmxtf

Big Cong! Glad to know you decide to continue your studies and have found a good school to go.

XieXiaoyu

I will decline all others within next week, but not as early as Monday.
Too busy to catch up my schedule, since I've been away from campus for a whole week.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-3-26 4:00:15编辑过]

betterbest

Good for you. OSU is an excellent school...
I am sorry about your feeling of Boston. I think it is a wonderful city and you will love it if you really live here for a while.

greenclose

Cong to Xiaoxiao yu. You deserve it