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发表于 2015-10-4 23:30:25 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

我承诺以后不编辑、不删除任何已有信息，也不介意各类打击，麻烦各位指导了，非常感谢

因为各种硬伤...实在不知道如何清楚定位，求各位帮忙，指点一些范围

学校背景：江西财经大学 (双非，似乎分为others类校)

专业:数理经济(Mathematical Economics)

GPA: 3.78/5;87.8/100 (学校成绩单)
      NO.4 in 36(专业方向排名)
      3.51 (北大GPA算法)

GT: GRE V147; Q168; AW 3 [考过第二次 V145; Q170; W3...抱歉真的刷不动了...]
   Toefl  R 26; L 26; S 20; W 23;  [同样,刷了三次 85-92-95(这次)]

成绩：[按学校成绩单的英文翻译给，附带学分]
                  Course                      Score                   credit
数学： Mathematical Analysis I/II/III  87/71/82                4/5/6
      Linear Algebra(engineering) 92                            4
      Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics 89          4
      Ordinary Differential Equation  92                            4
      Real Analysis                         96                            3 [这个实际上是实变函数...成绩单上成了实分析]
      Function Analysis                   97                            5
      Combinatorial Mathematics    91                            3
      Statistics                               81                            3
      Mathematical Modeling          94                            3
      [此外现在跟着教实变泛函的老师旁听点集拓扑/随机过程,旁听无法登在成绩单上,但似乎能写进推荐信]

经济学：Microeconomics                      92                         4
         Intermediate Microeconomics 82                         4
         Advanced Microeconomics       97                         4
         Macroeconomics                      80                         3
         Intermediate Macroeconomics 82                         4
         Advanced Macroeconomics       97                         4
         Econometrics I/II                   95/97                   4/3
         Dynamic Optimization Theory 98                         3
         Game Theory And Information Economics 99       3
         International Economics          87                         3
         Monetary and Financial Economics    85                   4
         Public Sector Economics          85                         3
         Political Economics  I             71                         3 [这个实际上是马克思主义经济学]
         Time Series Analysis                88                         6
         History of Economics Thoughts 90                         2

paper/科研/获奖：几乎都无...只有一些计量课作为作业的paper，以及校级的数学建模竞赛的奖&paper

推荐信：三封本校讲师同意，内容让自拟，还没想好侧重
第一封来自高级微观经济学课讲师  
            教师背景：Texas A&M  Agriculture Economics 毕业海归博士,现为讲师，关系不错。 
            情况：同意我自己拟完推荐信后她进行修改&签名
                     无法直接我推给她的PhD讲师
                     申请过跟着她打打杂，似乎paper已经写完了然后被拒。

第二封信来自动态优化理论课讲师 
            教师背景：欧洲某校海归(没细问)，现在也是讲师。 
            情况：推荐信自拟，之后修改签名

第三封来自泛函实变组合数学课讲师
               教师背景：厦门大学数学系博士，现在为讲师
               情况：同样推荐信自拟，之后修改签名。
                     另外，现在在听他的第二遍的泛函分析课，还在旁听他的随机过程/点集拓扑学课程
                     下学期预计要听他的抽象代数/测度论课程，不知是否该拟进推荐信中...

   此外，认识一些职位为副教授的老师，但是交流&经历并没有以上三位多,所以没去找他们要推荐信，请问有必要再找他们去要推荐信么？
   再者，关于自拟推荐信的情况，请问需要侧重一些什么方面来写么？

其他：
关于地区的偏好: 
   由于美国德州休斯顿附近有亲戚，所以只打算申美国，没考虑其他国家。
   暂时决定尝试的学校有：rice university；texas a&m university； texas austin；houston university  [暂时拿来保底]

现在申请情况:
   i. 不奢求奖学金了,打算自费；  
   ii.不奢求Phd跳板,MA当跳板也好了 
   iii.将来想读Ph.D..不过连跳板都不好定位...[翻贴看到了Duke的MA跳板,但不自信,怕自己的背景人家看不看得上] 
   iv.将来不一定要留美，也能考虑MA跳板后申请其他专业的Phd [担忧数学能力不足]

大概就是这样了…这几天自己刷了刷各学校要求，被Top的GT底线强据还好，之后的学校GT满足底线然而完全不清楚自己的定位，一头雾水...
希望各位能给我指一个大致的选校范围和方向,非常感谢

顺带，GT拖了论坛平均水平真是抱歉  Orz…

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texas a&m university自费博士应该可以，争取第二年拿奖学金；现在博士第一年自费应该可以读的不少，比如houston university， UT dallas等，只是需要考虑第二年奖的问题。

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wenjunx 发表于 2015-10-5 10:46
texas a&m university自费博士应该可以，争取第二年拿奖学金；现在博士第一年自费应该可以读的不少，比如ho ...

好哒，谢谢~

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"由于美国德州休斯顿附近有亲戚，所以只打算申美国，没考虑其他国家。" + "将来想读Ph.D"

umum.......really interesting...

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cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-5 17:39
"由于美国德州休斯顿附近有亲戚，所以只打算申美国，没考虑其他国家。" + "将来想读Ph.D"

umum.......re ...

舅舅是当年出国，现在定居在Texas Woodland，也是他推荐我去美国读书的...
所以在米帝不算举目无亲？这种情绪下，不大想去其他国家了。
读Ph.D倒是自己的愿望，出于更好的了解身边的一切的目的

选校虽然Austin,Rice,A&M,Houston,以及多谢2L推荐的Dallas都打算试试...
不过硬条件太差，实在不自信...想多了解下定位,多报点其他地方的学校一类的...

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xiaodanmao 发表于 2015-10-6 13:19
舅舅是当年出国，现在定居在Texas Woodland，也是他推荐我去美国读书的...
所以在米帝不算举目无亲？这种 ...

举目无亲....well, you are not a child anymore, you are heading towards a master at least......

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cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-6 16:30
举目无亲....well, you are not a child anymore, you are heading towards a master at least......

Good point, thanks for mentioning that. =v=
Maybe I overstate the case.
What I meant is no more than "It's nice to be with family.(。･ω･)"

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xiaodanmao 发表于 2015-10-6 19:25
Good point, thanks for mentioning that. =v=
Maybe I overstate the case.
What I meant is no more ...

I will rather say it is even nicer to be NOT with family as it is about time to learn to be independent.....

It is stupid to limit the choice of location (to such a small one) at this early stage for such reason.....

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cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-6 22:55
I will rather say it is even nicer to be NOT with family as it is about time to learn to be inde ...

I am not sure if I understood the word "restrict", since I don't have enough informations...

I just restricted myself in the U.S, because I want to get a Ph.D there so don't consider the springboards in other countries...
Only mentioning Texas above is because not knowing what kind of universities I may apply successfully, I just find a familiar state as a preference...(Or I don't know how to start..)
And now, I also plan to try the Ph.D programs of "Stony Brook University","University of California, Riverside","University of Illinois at Chicago" and the Master programs of "Duck university","Wisconsin Madison","central Michigan University".
If you don't mind, could you please help evaluate the my plan or introduce me some universities I may apply ?
Appreciate for your reply anyway.

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xiaodanmao 发表于 2015-10-6 23:28
I am not sure if I understood the word "restrict", since I don't have enough informations...

I ...

what I mean is not only not to be restricted within Texas, but indeed not restricted within US.

You have to know that under US system, it is not required to have a master before PhD (which is not the case for most place outside US), and thus there are not really that much academic master that are good for PhD preparation. Most of the master in US are for professional purpose - preparing a career, e.g. Financial Engineering, Accounting or whatever.

Therefore I will say half, if not more than half, of good springboard master is outside US, and thus even one plan to do a PhD in US, it is a bad idea to only consider master in US.

For PhD, the main problems of your profile are:
1. Reference Letter
2. Research Experience (UG research are basically not useful as they are far away from the frontier, but it is useful to show that the applicant really knows what research is about)
3. The name of the university.

Given that you have a solid (good grade and very relevant coursework) academic background but without a decent university (and thus most likely lack of good reference letter and global reputation), I will suggest you to forget about PhD at this moment and aim for a good academics master in order to get a better PhD admission later.

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cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-7 00:04
what I mean is not only not to be restricted within Texas, but indeed not restricted within US.
...

Yeah.. what you said are very reasonable...
En... Could you please tell me more about MA in other countries?
For instance... how could I evaluate if it's very possible that I enroll in the universities listed in "[选校定位] 世界范围内经济 master 项目，欧洲奖学金和经济 PhD & Master 大全 13.6.9 更新" ?

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