分享一下WUSTL Global Master DUal的信息，email from the faculty；持续更新中

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发这个帖子，是因为之前自己接到这个DUAL的offer之后也是不知所措，网上的信息十分limited，然后也不知道可信度有多少。另外由于是新专业，很多东西都无法借鉴和标定，给我选offer的过程带来很大的困扰。

以下information，部分来自跟faculty的Email交流，部分来自楼主自己的面试时候的提问，我标注了一下，大家可以自己判断。

From the faculty
1.Class Profile，
去年第一届的GMF，一共有22 students。Average GPA 3.7， Average GMAT 715. 大部分同学是non-US citizen, 大部分是中国人，但是很多拥有海外的本科或者学习经历。

2.今年的录取情况和offer holders情况
今年的人数会有所增加，Prof.Kadan在面试的时候跟楼主说大概会超过30个，但是部分原因是今年增加了一个和延世大学的合作，所以一部分人是去那里的。今年拥有US/CANADA/UK/EU的本科学位的同学会占很大一部分（LZ自己就是UK undergraduate。。。）。

From interview
1. 关于degree能否得到教育部认证
Prof Ohad Kadan的意思是，他觉得没有理由这个学位不会得到认证，但是由于目前还没有学生毕业，所以他也不能完全说就能认证。不过他们会跟教育部一起解决这个问题。
2. Olin方面的MSF degree
我们讨论过如果不能获得认证怎么办，他说你可以单独拿MSF的学位去试试，这个degree是一直被承认的，而且GMF的MSF跟olin其他几个track提供的degree是一样的。
3. 为什么要开一个这样的课程。
他的意思是，
第一部分原因：WUSTL的MSF一直以来非常popular，每年的很多他们认为很优秀的人不得不被拒掉。但是他们又不想扩大原来的class size。所以新开的这个专业会帮助他们更好地留住他们认为符合WUSTL标准的candidates。
第二部分原因：他认为外国人在美国市场，仅读一个MSF而拿到相关工作的概率实在是太低。而且在US的金融市场是非常偏向本地人的，所以他认为MSF的课程应该更加偏向于在亚洲市场找到工作。他个人认为亚洲市场的机遇会更多。
4.课程的quality
Prof Kadan是这个课程的director，所以他比较吹这个。。。他说candidates的各项标准都是很高的，然后SMU的faculty的质量也很高，blabla。。。吹了半天，省略万字。
5.是否能有选修课
他表示课程安排非常紧密，他不认为你们有空去学选修。答案是NO。。

最后，我附上original email，希望大家能有自己的判断。
Thanks for your message.  We hope you’ll choose to join us for the Global Master of Finance dual degree program beginning at Olin Business School this summer.  At this point, we don’t know the specific answers to some of your questions as they regard the cohort that will enter the program this summer, because we are still waiting to hear from many students who have been offered admission as to whether they will join us.  I can be more specific about the cohort that enrolled in Summer 2013.  In that group, the average undergraduate GPA was approximately 3.7.  The average GMAT was 715.  The number of students in the cohort was 22.

Most of the students are non-US Citizens, and most are from China.  That’s not surprising, given that a very high percentage of all applicants to this program are Chinese.  Interestingly, however, a very high percentage of the students had already studied outside of their home countries, in the US, Canada, the UK and several European countries.  Thus, the students bring a very wide range of personal experiences into the program, even if they share a common nationality.  Approximately 60% of the students in the first cohort are women.

As mentioned above, it’s too early to know all of these specific details about the next cohort.  We do anticipate that the next class in the dual degree program will be larger than the first.  Both we and our partner school in Singapore easily can accommodate a larger number of students; and we have added a second dual degree partner school, Yonsei University in South Korea.  Although most of the students in our next cohort will be going from Olin to SMU, some will be going from Olin to Yonsei.  The students will be together for their work at Olin in the two summers in the US.  Most of the students again will come originally from China; but, as with the first cohort, we are seeing already a large fraction of the group who will have studied outside of their home country during their undergraduate studies.  The program continues to be very popular with female students, so that at this point I would anticipate that more women than men will enroll.  Again, it’s just too soon to know all of these statistics precisely.

PS希望offer holder们加群讨论下。。134233488

26号更新
这次更新主要是关于 career service 的情况。
简要概述一下。。。
1.今年的目标人数是40-50.，今年会有去韩国延世大学的，so人数肯定会比上年有所增加。
2.学生可以有两种方式享受Olin的 Weston Career Center，六月份读foundation course的同学可以参加career planning sessions。 在新加坡的时候，Olin会有一个专门的工作人员来帮助在找工作，不过主要会在亚洲市场。
3.学生可以使用Olin的Online career service，叫Career Link，对所有Olin的学生开放。

附Gary的原始 Email
Thanks for your message.  I’ll do my best to answer your questions.  I am copying several of my colleagues here at Olin, so that they can see the sorts of concerns that you and others have about the numbers of students who may be enrolling in our dual degree program.  I am not aware of the plans you describe at Johns Hopkins University, though I do know that some schools in the US have programs much larger than ours at Olin.



At the present time, we do not know how many students will enroll in our second cohort of the dual degree program this coming summer.  As I mentioned before, we enrolled 22 students in our first class in Summer 2013, the group that now is in Singapore.  Both we and Singapore Management University would like to enroll a larger number of dual degree students over the course of time.  We are confident of being able to do an excellent job of serving a cohort of 40-50 students; but we cannot tell at this moment how close to that number the next cohort may be.  This is because a number of students – like yourself – are holding offers of admission and will be making their enrollment decisions in the coming weeks.



As I mentioned in my previous note, we have added a second dual degree partnership this year, with Yonsei University in South Korea.  As a result, we will have some students from this coming summer’s dual degree cohort going from Olin to South Korea, rather than from Olin to Singapore.  These students will be together during their summer studies at Olin.  This adds a bit to the uncertainty over exactly how large our next cohort will be.  We anticipate that it will be larger than last summer’s number of 22 students, but will not know how much larger for another several weeks.  I cannot imagine that class being larger than the 40-50 target number that I mention in the previous paragraph.  Compared with what you told me about the hoped-for enrollment at Johns Hopkins, this still would be a very small class!



You will have access to the Olin School’s Weston Career Center in two ways:  one, those students who are able to join us for the month of June, when the Foundations courses in accounting and finance are offered, will be able to participate in some career planning sessions organized by the Weston Career Center; two, Olin has hired a person to work on behalf of our students in Singapore, to help them with job searches there and elsewhere in Asia.  This will supplement the support provided by the career center at Singapore Management University.



Please feel completely free to share this information with other admitted students with whom you are in contact.  I appreciate having the opportunity to present this information, and appreciate your sharing it with others.  We hope we will see you – and some of the students with whom you have communicated – at Olin this summer for the start of this very exciting program.  Best regards.
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