[錄取] Environmental and Resource Econ PhD

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Admissions: (依時間順序, all PhD programs) 1/26 Oklahoma State, Agricultural Economics, assistantship, declined 2/10 Virginia Tech, Economics (joint offered by Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Department of Economics), tuition waived + 87.5% health insurance, 0.5 FTE RA/TA with a stipend of $1,700 per month for 12 months, declined 2/13 Purdue, Agricultural Economics, unfunded 2/17 Oregon State, Applied Economics, funding unknown 2/20 North Carolina State (NCSU), Economics (joint offered by Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Department of Economics), tuition waived + health insurance+ 0.25 FTE TA with a stipend of $8,000 for 9 months, declined 2/27 Florida, Food and Resource Economics, tuition waived + health insurance, 4 years Graduate Alumni Award $22,000 per year + 0.48 FTE TA for 12 months, declined 2/27 Penn State, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology), tuition waived + 80% health insurance, 0.5 FTE RA/TA with a stipend of $17,190 for fall and spring semesters 4/04 Texas A&M, Agricultural Economics, non-resident tuition waived (resident tuition: pending availability of funds) + ≒75% health insurance (I pay first 90 days), 0.5 FTE TA/RA with a stipend of $1,425 per month for 12 months, declined 4/04 Minnesota-Twin Cities, Applied Economics, unfunded Rejections: (依時間順序, all PhD programs) 2/22 Wisconsin-Madison, Agricultural and Applied Economics 3/01 Cornell, Applied Economics and Management 3/02 Maryland, Agricultural and Resource Economics 3/19 Iowa State, Economics 3/20 UC-Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics 3/21 Arizona, Economics 3/26 Michigan State, Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (問我是否可自費，若是則幫我尋找合適的指導教授，最後還是收到拒絕信…) 4/12 UC-Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics (Wait-listed → Rejected because scholarship below that of admitted applicants.) Decision: Attending Penn State University. Background: University of Michigan, MA in Applied Economics (Major: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics; Minor: Health Economics and International Trade) GPA 7.0/9.0 (3.67/4.0) Sep. 2008 – Dec. 2009 National Taiwan University, BA in Economics and Sociology (double major) GPA 3.53/4.0 (last 63 GPA: 3.65; last 25 GPA: 4.00) Sep. 2001 – Jun. 2006 Stanford University, Undergraduate Summer Visitor Summer 2004 Professional Training And Certificates: Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling Washington D.C., USA Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Monash University, Australia Nov. 2011 – Dec. 2011 Practical General Equilibrium Modelling Beijing, China Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS), Monash University, Australia Apr. 2011 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Verification Taipei City, Taiwan Lead Verifier Training Course (ISO 14064: 2006) British Standards Institution (BSI) Mar. 2011 TOEFL: (Only reported to Cornell, Purdue, MSU, Arizona) 96 (R25, L24, S22, W25), 板橋地球村, Sep. 18, 2011 GRE: V530, Q800, AW 3.0, Oct. 31, 2007 Research/Work Experiences: Assistant Research Fellow @ Taiwan Institute of Economics Research May. 2010 – Present Administrative Cadre, Substitute (Alternative) Services @ Bureau of Social Affairs, Pingtung County Government Jul. 2006 – Oct. 2007 Publications: 6 * local journal articles (4 first author) 3 * book chapters (1 first author) 5 * international conference papers (3 first author, 1 EI) Several reports Awards/Honors: 台灣經濟研究院第26屆金筆獎, 個人組, 助理研究員組第一名 Feb. 2012 台灣經濟研究院第25屆金筆獎, 個人組, 助理研究員組第一名 Feb. 2011 書卷獎 * 1, 台大經濟系 Oct. 2006 黃錫和教授紀念獎學金, 台大經濟系 Nov. 2005 References: 1 from TIER, Director (my boss) (PhD in Econ @ Texas A&M) 1 Professor of Economics from Department of Economics, University of Michigan, former Director of MAE Program (PhD in Econ @ Harvard) 1 Professor of Environmental Economics from School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan (PhD in Natural Resource Econ @ Michigan) 1 Director and Professor from the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) and the Impact Project, Monash University, Australia (co-worker and one of the project advisor) (PhD in Econ @ University of Melbourne) 心得: 從開始準備申請到今天一切定案，隨意分享一些心得，希望能給未來申請這個領域的人一些參考。在Michigan念碩士時就決定要走應用經濟領域，當初在自然資源與環境經濟以及健康政策中抉擇，畢業時的工作也想找電力公司或能源產業的研究工作，後來放棄中歐國際工商學院研究員的位子，選擇進入台灣經濟研究院，研究新能源產業、能源政策、可計算一般均衡(CGE)模型，很幸運所內長官賞識而有一些發表與出國研習等機會，後來覺得要走研究工作，不論待在智庫或是進學校，學習更專業的方法與博士學位是必須的，也得到主管們的支持。選擇學校方面，我將有資源與環境經濟博士學位的學校一字排開，就系上老師及研究領域、近年發表文章做一些簡單搜尋，剔除了真的覺得不太合的之外就一路丟了17間學校(後來發現如UCSD、UCSB、Duke等學校還有一些在純經濟系或其他整合性的program下，但我沒有申請，不過看我的結果丟了應該也很難被錄取)。 SOP寫的比較general一點，主要提到我的工作及發表過的文章(包括我們曾利用 CGE模型分析中鋼、中龍擴廠、國光石化、碳捕獲與封存、碳交易等議題)，未來希望以所學幫助政府及民眾決定環境及資源政策，不排斥回到現在的工作崗位，或是留在美國教書或是進智庫、研究機構。很幸運的1/26在澳洲看澳網的時候收到第一間的通知，而且是被錄取，雖然是我傾向拿來保底的學校，但還是覺得至少有地方去了。更幸運的是2/10收到 Virginia Tech的offer，和director通過電話，可惜指定我第一年RA是跟一位中國籍的助理教授(她去年發了大概將近10篇文章)，重點是她的研究領域是健康經濟，在director的逼迫下3月中我就接受了合約(還討價還價延了一個禮拜)，不過後來因為拿到更適合我的offer，在不違反415條款之下，寫信過去辭去這個職位。中間等待其他學校的結果與是不是有funding的過程依然很煎熬，Florida給的很大方，本來是第一年 TA 12,225 + 4,000 fellowship，第二年起 TA 16,225，後來加碼變成一年22,000的Graduate Alumni Award，可惜的是他們家在這領域表現並不突出，不然第三、第四年給我開課這種經驗對於喜歡教學的我是很具有吸引力的。3/15 NCSU獎學金評估開獎，我是前五名的TA候補，這時候覺得有一點開心，可以被環境經濟top的學校排獎學金前5候補對我來說已經是種肯定了，他們家一向是AD狂，這幾年財政好像出了問題，第一年給獎很少，沒拿到的要考過資格考後才有機會，而且一樣非常競爭，甚至聽說連研究需要的data也要自己出錢購買，這期間我一直有跟director聯絡說我還對他們學校很有興趣，拿到獎的情形容待後述。一直到4/11收到一封平信，信中日期是3/12 =_= 竟然是Penn State的offer，之前我寫信去問都沒下文，本來想說大概沒了，也一度很煎熬是不是要自費去念 Minnesota，Texas A&M也很晚才通知錄取，再問之下有給funding，不過 in-state tuition還不確定來源，讓我還是猶豫了，他們的program很好，雖比較偏向agribusiness方面，但有氣候變遷研究做得很好的Bruce McCarl。在美國東岸4/15的中午左右，決定接受Penn State的offer，沒想到台灣4/16早上10點( 美東4/15晚上10點)收到NCSU的director的email，問我接受別的學校了沒，他能提供我免學費、保險 + 0.25的TA，雖然畢業可以拿經濟博士而不是農經博士，地點位於不錯的Duke、UNC、NCSU三角地區，但考量到NCSU的財政問題，往後幾年的funding都還是未知數，而且就算我有碩士學位了可能還是要4年多才能畢業，忍痛放棄我手中這個環境經濟領域最好的offer...放棄了後還是有點失落就是 ...不過不管如何，決定了就好好的念，Penn State也提供dual-title in Demography或是Operations Research的選項，課程規劃3年半可以畢業，對我來說都是很大的優點。最後謝謝親朋好友的協助，公司同事的體諒與關心，不管我如何決定都支持我的父母與女友，ptt留學版廣大的前輩留下來的寶貴資訊，接下來幾年要在Go Blue 與Go Nittany Lions之間糾結了XD -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 118.168.242.25

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