I've give up hope for OSU, I even don't want to call them to face the direct rejection. Someone in the Economics Dept tell me the professor who in change of the admission is a tough Japanise guy, he only received students from very few schools of China, PKU, Tinghua U, Nankai U, Fudan U.
Now I feel really sorry for my $ 40 application fee :(
CMU is so funny, if you apply on line you can take a $10 off discount from the $40 application fee. It is one of the reasons I applied for CMU, haha ~~
"for econ dept in osu, there were over 500 chinese applicants each year. and generally 9 for 2000, 11 for 2001, 5 for 2002 got admission and financial aid. So the competition is pretty severe. Frankly speaking, there are no students coming from Beijing Normal Univ. in my dept (as far as I know), the DGS (director of graduate studies who in charge of recruiting new students) usually will choose econ students graduating from Peking univ. Renmin Univ. Fudan Univ. Nankai Univ and Wuhan univ.. I don't mean that your Univ is not good enough ( actually it is very good, right?), our DGS may know little about your univ., thus it is a weak point for applying osu econ. "