ACCT PhD 2013 Fall 申请评估

huiye

It's actually not easy for you to attend PhD classes at Duke or UNC since you are not a current student (note education is not free.  It's harder to get RA work.

Your background is pretty good. One disadvantage is that you don't have much research related experience. Nowadays I see many successful applicants have substantial research experience. That's why BYU grads are so popular.

Actually no need to redo GMAT. But you don't want to limit yourself to Duke and UNC. There are many many solid programs in the US that produce good PhD students, and you can do some homework on this board to find them.

-- by 会员 ProfCPA (2012/8/16 22:08:49)

i noted this as well.  do you have any idea how many BYU graduates are there each year?

wingshidden

悲剧了. 果然如 ProfCPA 所言,我跟DUKE一个教授联系,他说 " I don’t think my PhD seminar in accounting theory is suitable for you at this stage. Even Duke PhD students need to take the first year PhD courses in microeconomics before they are allowed to take this course. "

其实我只不过是问可不可以去听听课, 没想到就直接悲剧了. 我想我如果直接去的话, 这老师会不会对我很反感, 对我以后正式申请不利?

UNC 的老师倒是友好一些. 我说我想修课, 他建议我去听听有点感觉. 不过还等着最后回复呢.

大家有什么建议吗?

It's actually not easy for you to attend PhD classes at Duke or UNC since you are not a current student (note education is not free.  It's harder to get RA work.

Your background is pretty good. One disadvantage is that you don't have much research related experience. Nowadays I see many successful applicants have substantial research experience. That's why BYU grads are so popular.

Actually no need to redo GMAT. But you don't want to limit yourself to Duke and UNC. There are many many solid programs in the US that produce good PhD students, and you can do some homework on this board to find them.

-- by 会员 ProfCPA (2012/8/16 22:08:49)

sylk

悲剧了. 果然如 ProfCPA 所言,我跟DUKE一个教授联系,他说 " I don’t think my PhD seminar in accounting theory is suitable for you at this stage. Even Duke PhD students need to take the first year PhD courses in microeconomics before they are allowed to take this course. "

其实我只不过是问可不可以去听听课, 没想到就直接悲剧了. 我想我如果直接去的话, 这老师会不会对我很反感, 对我以后正式申请不利?

UNC 的老师倒是友好一些. 我说我想修课, 他建议我去听听有点感觉. 不过还等着最后回复呢.

大家有什么建议吗?

It's actually not easy for you to attend PhD classes at Duke or UNC since you are not a current student (note education is not free.  It's harder to get RA work.

Your background is pretty good. One disadvantage is that you don't have much research related experience. Nowadays I see many successful applicants have substantial research experience. That's why BYU grads are so popular.

Actually no need to redo GMAT. But you don't want to limit yourself to Duke and UNC. There are many many solid programs in the US that produce good PhD students, and you can do some homework on this board to find them.

-- by 会员 ProfCPA (2012/8/16 22:08:49)

-- by 会员 wingshidden (2012/8/18 0:02:36)

直接申请吧 不要犹豫不决了
ProfCPA的pretty good意思就是你总会有学校录取的
等你申请完2012－2013这一轮 你对自己的水准应该也有明确认识了

ProfCPA

如果你直接去，当然很不利。It's unprofessional. 一般来讲外面的人是不能来上我们seminar的。不过如果Fuqua有workshop，你是可以来听的。可以去网页上看看。不过如果没有研究经历，那些paper来了跟听天书差不多。

怎么讲呢，也许phd一直是你的梦想，不过可能只是梦想。因为你从来没有为之做过准备。你的背景完全是为corporate准备的。我倒是建议你问问自己，Am I really passionate about PhD? If yes, why didn't I do anything in the past to prepare for it?

如果你可以说服你自己，去投入五六年的时间申请+学习，那恭喜你。你的背景进入个不错的program应该还是没问题的。

Zingales

说句实话，你有去听他seminar的想法就是错误的，如果说你不去听他的seminar，你还有点机会再duke，如果去了，我敢保证，你一点机会都没有了。。。

你本科和master都是会计的背景，可以说econ的储备趋近于0, 本来可以把这个拙藏起来，多强调你的institutional knowledge，可是你如果去听了他theory的seminar，上来diamond&verrecchia和holmstrom&milgrom就给你造晕了，你觉得你还会有戏嘛？