If I am correct, I am sure you are in HKU. You estimation may be based on your faculty's publication, but you need not compare them with the faculty in mainland. Some mainland students apply to HK's Universiteis first and then transfer to the US' U by the strong recommendations from the professors in HK's Universityes. So these students will get much better offers than the mainland's applicants.
CW-Yuan can send students to UChicago but not others, because he has strong relationship with UChicago, but UPenn , UC Berkeley will not care him. The PKU professors also have strong relationship with other top U, such as Yale, UPenn, Harvard; Tsinghua has very strong realtionship with UCBerkeley. The XMU has strong relation with Cornell, as I know, one student from XMU has got fellowship from Cornell, and Cornell always admits only one mainland applicant each year. So, you can see, in mainland you will have more chance to go to the top US' U, if you are in the U I listed above. Also, you know, most top U can only admit 1 or 2 Chinese applicants. In this case, do you think it's possible for the students outside these Universities to be admitted by the top U only with the average RL?
原帖由 crazygyz 于 2007-3-23 01:27 发表
Best luck for u! Since to enroll in the top 10 programs need not only ur competitive background. Luck matters a lot too.
Many of my friends got rejected by univ. like Cornell, Berkerly or ...
You're right I'm in HKU. However I'm not saying that the economics faculty of HKU is the best among all. In fact, HKUST, CUHK also have extremely strong faculty, if not stronger than HKU , or saying, PKU. Also CUHK has the best math faculty in the greater China or even Asia-Pacific.
What's more, the students who got admitted to top5 US programs hardly depend on the so called "relations". Prof.Wing Suen, Prof. Richard Wong, Dr.C.W. Yuen or even other several professors with UChicago Ph.D have very strong relations with their alma mater. But as far as I know, the students who have their recommendations all go to univ. other than UChicago, and the student who got admitted by UChicago hasn't had RLs from any of them. Tricky isn't it? Relations can help, but others matter too.
I admit that most of the top offers in mainland China have gone to the univ. you have mentioned. But if you have learned some empirical economic analysis theories, you'll know that your conclusion is biased. But whether it is determined, or most explained by your saying is questionable. I'm not going to debate with u here but I can say with responsibility that if you check the Ph.D candidates within the top US univ. you should find that the place where u graduate doesn't mean everything.
Furthermore, if u're using the word "Chinese" Hua Ren (pardon me since this lab doesn't have sim Chinese input software >_<), you should be careful because you have included more than you think.
Anyway, I'm interested in this topic so if you want further discussion, send it to jakegao1024@gmail.com if I had the honor.
P.S. the journals you mentioned are some of my regular reading, albeit I cannot understand them all, or say, a great many of them. lol