申请NOTRE DAME的各位网上申请状态是什么？

wangdalin

coshair 发表于 2014-2-3 09:43
ND吧

12月面完，skype里面说20号出成绩，无论学校排名如何，candidate总是抱有期望的对吧

学院刚换了admission的头，所以可能会有一些乱吧。学校这么做的确有不妥，你再接再厉，还会有很多别的机会的！

wonjann

coshair 发表于 2014-2-3 09:43
ND吧

12月面完，skype里面说20号出成绩，无论学校排名如何，candidate总是抱有期望的对吧

First of all, Christmas is like Spring Festival in China. Universities, big or small, will not do much during the week before or after Christmas. In US, when it comes to holidays, nobody is going to work. They party, travel, etc. Don't people in China try to go home as early as possible before Spring Festival?

Second, this winter is the worst in American history. Severe storms swept across the country. In most cities in USA, people rely on their cars for transportation. When the weather is not good, be it snow or storm or low temperature, it's very dangerous to drive. Government takes this very seriously and does not want to incur any casualties. Schools or even the whole city will shut down sometimes. Even cities in the South like Atlanta shut down this week (the whole highway was paralyzed and people got stuck on highways overnight). Notre dame was shut down several times in the past few weeks.

But it's understandable that you are frustrated. Everyone who ever go through the process knows the bitterness of uncertainty and anxiety! Good luck with other schools.

elevenmiin

wonjann 发表于 2014-2-3 12:48
First of all, Christmas is like Spring Festival in China. Universities, big or small, will not do  ...

是的，你这里的理由都make sense，让人理解，可是为什么不在邮件里给层主解释而是这里解释呢？给了decision date，到期并没有回复而且没有解释，让申请人焦急等待很久，不可否认这是一个bad experience.

coshair

wangdalin 发表于 2014-2-3 11:56
学院刚换了admission的头，所以可能会有一些乱吧。学校这么做的确有不妥，你再接再厉，还会有很多别的机 ...

嗯，谢啦，已经有更好的offer了

wonjann

elevenmiin 发表于 2014-2-3 13:03
是的，你这里的理由都make sense，让人理解，可是为什么不在邮件里给层主解释而是这里解释呢？给了decisi ...

Of course. The college didn't handle this very well . I worked for the international office for an university in US so I understand the perspective of both sides. No school can guarantee all students have satisfactory experience. Generally speaking, private schools are more efficient than public schools. When it comes to individuals, a lot of factors combined will decide the person's experience. I know people who apply for M7 schools have bad experience and also those who apply for 50+ school have very good experience. Pure ranking data or individual experience can't stand for the whole picture. And if you have many American friends, you will realize that in native people's mind, Notre dame's B-school is very top-notch, far better than its ranking (maybe because it's undergraduate b-schools tops the ranking for many years). But its application system is so old-fashioned...This is beyond my understanding...Many 50+ schools have better system than ND. Pray that the school will improve this.

richtung

wonjann 发表于 2014-2-3 23:01
Of course. The college didn't handle this very well . I worked for the international office for a ...

你只要说前两句就够了。解释那么多没有任何意义，错了就是错了，不好就是不好。

wonjann

richtung 发表于 2014-2-3 23:18
你只要说前两句就够了。解释那么多没有任何意义，错了就是错了，不好就是不好。 ...

I am sorry that I didn't make my point clear. ND made a mistake and there was no doubt. I just don't agree with the statement that "20名之后的学校招生真心比较随意". You can't reject all the schools that are not in the top 20 league just because of a small sample of bad experience.

m1k3

coshair 发表于 2014-2-3 17:40
嗯，谢啦，已经有更好的offer了

祝贺女侠！