[吐槽/杂谈] Stony Brook Econ Ph.D录取真·一波三折 [复制链接]

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逗比录取出了结果，回馈一下论坛。
楼主今年某北美著名公立-数学MA毕业，申了几个经济学的phd项目，无奈无econ背景（辅修经济学太初级都不好意思拉出来）,几乎放弃申请。先报一下三维 Undergraduate 3.4( BS. in Statistics), graduate 4.0 ( MA in Math)，几个水项目和一个summer school关于pde参数拟合和大气模型分析的。 TOEFL(30(R)+30(L)+20(S)+28(W)), GRE（Q170+2.5AW），其中TOEFL speaking部分和GRE AW部分血泪教训（大家一定要重视Speaking和GRE AW，发现最后几轮的申请都是这样，至少我觉得是，看到Grad Cafe各种变态分数简直不要太慌）。
言归正传，楼主本来是想Stony Brook保底，不料03-06发现石溪发来的拒信（给好几个小伙伴看都是拒信的感觉）
Dear Applicant:

As you will see in the attached letter, due to the high number and quality of applicants, we are not able to offer you admission to our PhD program in Economics.

We wish you the best of luck as you consider other alternatives to continue your education.

Best,
Maryann
本来心灰意冷，上完早课冷静下来看了一下附件的pdf，发现如下段落
"I can tell you that the process of choosing the best match between our applicants and our department strengths is somewhat subjective, and this probably means you might have received admission from other excellent programs. We sincerely hope this is the case."
当时就怀疑自己是不是“overqualified”，自恋之余决定耍一下流氓argue一下，就和小蜜表了一下忠心，委婉的说明了一下情况。
结果！！！第二天早上起床就发现小蜜回我了！回我了！本来想赖床了的，噌的一下就起来了！
“We are sorry. We did not mean to send you a rejection letter. Please disregard. We have not made any final determination about your application.

I will be in touch.”
看到这里，楼主只能呵呵呵，不带这么玩的。看过发错录取的某疙瘩，这个发错拒信是咋回事。

然后今天收到了stony brook 的录取，老铁简直不要太6。
然后就问了一下tuition的事情，本来Rutgers只给我admission，上网发现项目没钱，总不能石溪也没钱然我自费5年吧。。。。

然后就得到了另外一个小蜜回复，
“with respect to aid, before we can consider giving you aid, you need to practice your English and do better on the toefl. improving English is necessary, not sufficient. there is a reasonable chance that, even with a much-improved toefl score, you would have to pay every year. on the other hand, other than your toefl score, you look very good on paper. so, if that translates to doing very well in the program, the chances of getting aid in future years improve. unfortunately, I can't make any promises.”

所以说大家真的要练好口语！！！！！不然像Cornell这种上来就是各项25卡人的，还是别送钱了（除非大牛当我没说）。

感觉是我申请过程中最欢乐的一件事情了，还在等其他的消息，先传一个供大家娱乐一下。Fighting！

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