I need to explain something to you. There are many Chinese
students who apply to graduate programs in the US each year. Even in our small
department we receive applications from 30 to 40 Chinese students every year,
and they all appear to be good students. How are we to choose? We usually
accept 10 to 12 new graduate students each year, some years less than that.
Our economy is very bad at this time, so we will be accepting fewer graduate
students. We also receive many applications from American students and it is
our policy to accept them first. In addition, almost all of the Chinese
applicants need financial support. It costs less to accept American students
because transportation from China is very expensive, and many American students
come to graduate school where they will pay for part of their graduate
education, so it does not cost as much to have American graduate students.
Chinese students would have much better chances of acceptance if they came here
with at least a little financial support. I am surprised that your government
does not help you, as your chances of acceptance in the US are very low unless
you have some support that you bring with you. We also have applicants from
many other countries around the world. Here is our policy: first we take
Americans, then we take international students who have some financial support
that they bring with them. The governments of several other countries, India
for example, offer their students support if they are accepted into a graduate
program in the U.S. Please understand all of this as you seek a graduate degree
in the US.
First of all, this does not seem coming from a staff at VT but most probably from a professor.
In addition, he/she definitely made some serious sense here... I wonder if you have provoked him/her in some way. Anyway, we do need fundings, but we are never supposed to beg and go overboard.