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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.

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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.

1. Any international student can work immediately at the university in which he or she is enlloded under student employment. 2. Yes, RA/TA have to file income tax in US.

Yes, any international student who comes to US to study must file income tax from the year the student has entered US.

As I know, the finance field split from economics began in the 1920's. In US, finance department became independent about in 1950's. Many older financial professors are still holding economic degree with finance major. Some older schools still have finance under economic department such as Princeton and Standford (you can check their webs; I write by memorir); other schools combine with departement as Economic and Finace such as University of Southern California. Some top schools do not have finance department such as Cal tech and Brown. In general, like other Ph.D degree, degree of Ph.D in finace is best from the top ten, even if it is economic degree with finance major. There are many schools offering Ph.D. in economics, but not many finance departments offer a Ph.D degree. Ph.D in finace leads to carrer in private companies or in academia. Jobs in academia are limited to four-year universities because the beginning course in finance is offered only in year three. 1. Most schools use GMAT for admmition decision to Ph.D. in finance. Some schools use GMAT or GRE such as University of Illiois at Urbana, University of Southern California. University of Chicogo prefer GRE, but would accept GMAT. Again this you should check with the website of defferent universities. 2. Yes, Maryland and Indianana are good schools offering Finance Ph.D. If I were you, I would go for the top schools such as U of Chicogo, MIT, Harvard, etc. and have a few good schools like Maryland and Indianana as safety schools.

Not just International students, no one should take IRS lightly. However, if you have not filed your income tax report by April 15, you might file for an extention by April 15 and file your income tax report later.

You are on target. The core of a Ph.D. program are Investment, Corporate Finance, and Financial risk management, Banking, and Financial Econometrics. Investment includes Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Portfolio Management, Bonds Markets, etc. Corporate Finance includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Captital Structure, Corporate Governance, International Finance, etc. Financial risk manegement includes Options and Futures, Interest Rate Structures, Interest Rate Swaps, etc. Banking includes Financial Markets and Insititutions, Commercial Banking, Small Business Financing, etc. Financial Econometrics course is taken after courses of nomal econometrics I, II, and III (III could be the Time series course). Finance Ph.D. programs have different strength according to their faculty and the name of the insititution established in the field such as: Berkeley is known for Financial Derivatives, UCLA and Rochester are known for Corporate Finance, University of Chicogo is known for all subjects, especially for investment. Only some schools offer International Finance major in the Ph.D. program. As I know, University of South Carolina is a good one.

Financial terms are short-term finance and long-term finance. Short-term Finance: financial activities using finacial instruments that have maturity of one year or less, such as T-bill, Commercial Papers, Repurshaching agreements, etc. Long-term Finance: financial activities using finacial instruments that have maturity greater than one year, such as T-notes, T-bonds, Corporate bonds, Equity, etc. Like domestic finance, international finance dues with both short-term and long-term activities on an international level:p .

I do not understand what you mean by "short run". International Finace dues with international companies and with global finaces which is a continuing activity throughout the world at all time.

"... an arbitrage treasure hunter" concept is ratter old. The currecy arbitrageures in the present time are dispaering because of advances in computer technology. The following textbook illustrates the concept of International Finance subject at the Mater level: Mutinational Business Finace Eighth Edition by David K. Eiteman; Arthur I. Stonehill; and Michael H. Moffeett. Publish by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1998 Contents are Part I: The International Financial Environment Chapter 1. Issues in Global Financial Management Chaptet 2. The Intrernational Monetary Syatem Chapter 3. Using Balance of Paymants Data Part II: Foreign Exchange Markets Chapter 4. The Foreign Exchange Market Chapter 5. International Parity Conditions Chapter 6. Foreign Currency Opions Part III: Measuring and Managing Foreign Exchange Exposure Chapter 7. Transaction Exposure Chapter 8. Operation Exposure Chapter 9. Tranlation Exposure Chapter 10. Interest Rate Exposure Part IV: Financing the global Firm Chapter 11. The Global Cost of Capital Chapter 12. Sourcing Equity Globally Chapter 13. Sourcing Date Globally Chapter 14. Financial Structure Part V: Foreign Investment Decisions Chapter 15. Corporate Strategy and Foreign Investment Chapter 16. Political Risk Management Chapter 17. Principles of Multinational Taxation Chapter 18. Multinational Capital Budgeting Part VI: Managing Multinational Operations Chapter 19. Repositioning Funds Chapter 20. Working Capital Management Chapter 21. Import and Export Financing Part VII: Advance Topics in Multinational Finance Chapter 22. Current Industry Financial Management Practices Chapter 23. Advance Topics in currency and Interest Rate Risk management This textbook is one of the popular textbook uses in International Finance in many US universities. The contents of the textbook illustrates why International Finance courses of many universities in the US are offered by Finance Departemant [clap] rater than by Economic Department.

For many universities in the US, International finance is a subject or major (in Ph.D. program) under the Finance field.

I agree with your set up. But, "After drying up 98% is water" means 98lb water is evapored. The the remaining weigth should be 1 lb water + 1 lb Everything else =2 lb. What do you think?