Offer@UT—Austin 问我是不是排他们为首选，大家帮我分析分析

galluplinc

恭喜！！！

jimmycen

恭喜楼主哈。

个人也觉得研究兴趣和导师的匹配是PhD的首要因素，更何况也是UT-Austin也很棒。

hexunyi

谢谢楼上各位的恭喜，大家能不能帮我看看，那信是不是offer，因为有个朋友说那不是正式的offer，可我看不出来，还是想听听有经验的仁兄，别让俺瞎高兴半天。

lfdb

Big Cong!!!!!!!!

sunjiefairy

看到楼主这么大的offer，真的禁不住非常强烈的congratulations!

可以开开心心过年了。

我等待、祈祷中。。。。。

jimmycen

楼主不要多焦虑了，这个已经是Very very good news了，真的可以比较心安地过个年。想想其它人吧。我都不知道要以怎样的心情来迎接新年呢。

lfdb

我觉得你如果不确定的话可以问问他：

Is the previous email equivalent to an offer letter?

我觉得就是了，如果不录取你，给你奖学金干什么呀？

呵呵，再次恭喜！！！

hexunyi

我写信问他我今早凌晨收到的是不是formal offer，刚刚收到了UT-Austin那位chair的来信，说不是

    

My email was not meant as a
formal offer. It is customary for us to filter out the most promising
applicants. Once that is done, we start assessing how serious the
applicants are in wanting to come here. In this respect, we typically
consider possibly offering the Harrington award to prospective students.

    

All PhD students who are
admitted into the program will get tuition waiver, and fellowships. The
amounts for this year have not yet been decided, but is very
competitive compared to other schools. The financial support will
continnue for five years provided the student meets all the
requirements each year in a satisfactory manner.

    

I am happy that you are
keen on joining our program should we make an offer to you. I will be
in touch with you in the near future once the admissions are finalized.
We usually allow international students sufficient time to get all
their visa paperwork to be processed. And so this should not be a cause
for concern
我有点搞不懂，不是offer，第一封信为啥说的那么确定的样子，“In
any case, should you choose to come here, you will be given fellowships
and tuition waivers, etc. And so you will be covered financially”，
请问，我能不能直接写信问他，我被admit可能性有多大，反正我决定把ut作为首先了，要是定了，别的申请就不管理，安心做别的事情了？

lfdb

你一定要一口咬死，你就是把UT放在首选！让人家感觉你就是非常非常想去！！！！！
关键时刻你可不能错过好机会啊！！！！！！！！！！！

我好激动的勒！！！

hexunyi

我说了，我白天给他写信，说他们是我的first choice，还说prefer UT to all other programs I applied