nikishin

I think you would not get more than what was stated in the official letter, unless you have insider(s) in the university.

If you are looking for a "school I would enjoy my time more at", you should pick the school that likes you and wants you. Good in your study.

I have a classmate who was also an international student. He had $5,000 financial aid and had no credit history in the US. After he came to US, he wanted to buy a car, and no one bank, in town, was willing to loan him the money. However, if he can find someone as a guarantor, banks were willing to loan him the money. I believe credit history in the US is an important factor to financing any thing in the US.

May be a student loan?

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You get the best MFE program[clap] . Now you can forget all other MFE programs. Good luck in your study.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You may not believe this, the Prof. is American who has a Asian wife (his first wife and only wife)!!! I realy do not know what his wife teaches him.

A male

That depends on your advisor. I know a Ph.D RA who has been told that she has to work during the Thanksgiving Holiday. She, the Ph.D student, objected. Her advisor told her that Thanksgiving is for Americans, and it is not for her. The Ph.D student is Asian.

I think you are looking for Master of Science in Finance (MSF) program. I have earned a MSF degree almost five years ago, at that time there were very few universities offering MSF degree. Now a number of MSF program is growing in the US, such as Boston college, University of Arizona, etc. The MSF program of my university stwiched to Executive MSF in year 2001. University of Virginia also had the MSF program five year ago, but it closed, I believe. The problem is that a MSF program requies a large numbers of faculty. My suggestion is to look at different universities finance deparment. It should not be difficult to find a MSF program. Good luck.

Yes, I know of a student admited to the Ph.D program after one year in the MBA program. This depends on a number of factors such as how well you did in the MBA program, whether professors like you, how many Ph.D applicantes the department has, etc.

I believe most of you heard the expression of "academic trash". I know most of you here are very excited about begining your Ph.D program. I wish all of you have a smooth sailling and none of you hit a member of "academic trash".

I have been in and out of town for the past few weeks. To #1: Most universities have rules about the authorship of their RA's work. You can look up the rules and find what rights a RA has. The one I know as follow: All the works and ideas of a RA belong to the professor for whom the RA is working. Under this situation, it is up to the professor to let your name appear as a co-author. The main problem in the Ph.D program is about the copy right. When the problem arises, an university court will adhere strictly to university rules. My suggestion is that you should find out what rights you have in your university. Then you will know weather you wish to express your ideas as a RA or to save them untill you have earned your Ph.D.

Congrations!!! As a Floridian, I know that UF is very generous in oftening financial aids to Ph.D students in comparison to many schools. This is because UF gets the highest state funding from among the public universities in Florida. Offering higt financial aid is normal for UF. Enjoy the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$K.

I had two classmates exchange students from Germany in year 2001. I have not heard them saying that they have to file income tax.