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Date: April 7th, 2009 11:58 PM Author: Abnormal black woman Subject: Columbia SIPA EMPA I applied for the Columbia SIPA EMPA Program - early decision. Was supposed to find out BY April 1st, and still no news. Called on 4/6 and was told that letters were mailed out last week... Has anyone heard back? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11364812) |
Date: April 13th, 2009 1:32 PM Author: Slate jewess pit I am so glad I found someone who is in the same boat as me. I was feeling a little bit ashamed that I've called a couple of times to the empa admission office asking about the decisions. And yes I got the same information, April 1st they sent out the letters. It's mid April now and still nothing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11415618) |
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Date: April 13th, 2009 4:14 PM Author: Abnormal black woman I have to admit that I was relieved to read your post. Isn't it frustrating?? I'm hoping the letter will be there when I get home tonight. If not, I will call them again tomorrow. Please let me know if you hear anything... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11416708) |
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Date: April 13th, 2009 4:22 PM Author: Abnormal black woman Just got this message today: "We had such an overwhelming amount of applications that we fell behind schedule. Official letters are going out this week you should know no later than mid next week." |
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Date: April 13th, 2009 4:51 PM Author: olive abode quadroon have u applied to the WGWAG program as well??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11417015) |
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Date: July 14th, 2009 3:15 PM Author: Charismatic Garnet Rehab Travel Guidebook Post removed by moderator for violating The Law of The Land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12242564) |
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Date: April 13th, 2009 5:43 PM Author: Slate jewess pit I got the same email...Official letters are being mailed out this week you should have the decision by mail by midweek next week. I posted the same question in gradcafe and nobody responded. What program are you applying for the Management or the International Economy? Good Luck! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11417495) |
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Date: April 14th, 2009 1:30 PM Author: Abnormal black woman I applied for the Advanced Management & Finance track. Good luck to you too! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11424511) |
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Date: June 29th, 2009 5:00 PM Author: Charismatic Garnet Rehab Travel Guidebook Title: (general) Daniel Brou and Mommy Incentive Daniel Brou: The Mommy Incentive?
Financial Incentive:
To go back a few years. The Daniel Brou said he’d write me a letter of recommendation to economics graduate discipline Elation! Joy! Celebration! I said, let’s understand this guy a little better. I offered him a financial incentive: Daniel Brou, want to be my economics tutor? Daniel Brou equivocated, hemmed, hawed, reneged. No, not interested. Okay, maybe the financial incentive wasn’t big enough. Tutoring is a low margin business. A few years pass. Other incentives have failed, so I offer a bigger financial incentive: an expensive $800 watch. Again, the Daniel Brou is silent. Super high profit margin, but again silence. Conclusion: financial incentives don’t matter to my economics professor.
Collegial Incentive:
Whatever! The Daniel Brou is still writing me a letter of recommendation; who cares about tutoring? I dutifully send the Daniel Brou the complete packet to write the letter of rec. The cover letter, thanking the professor for his assistance; the cv, showing my many accomplishments; the statement of purpose, outlining my future plans and sense of commitment; the stamped addressed envelopes, hey dude, the postage is on my dime not yours! SILENCE. Whatever! The Daniel Brou is a busy guy! I wish I could be as busy as the Daniel Brou. Don’t disturb the busy professional! I’m sure he sent the letters of recommendation that he promised to write for me! Send the Daniel Brou a thank you note and thank you gift for his work. A nice Mancur Olsen book. He can always resell the gift if he doesn’t like it.
The Appeal to Duty Incentive:
A year has passed. Still silence.“The Daniel Brou, I write, you really owe me an explanation for your silence. Did I offend you? Did someone tell you something negative about me? You won a teaching award so you must care about your students. I was one of your students, and I would appreciate some answers.” Silence. Silence. Silence. Conclusion: the appeal to a sense of teacher’s duty is ineffective with a guy who won a teaching award.
Power Play Incentive:
Several years have passed. Still don’t know what happened with the letters of recommendation. Contacted Daniel Brou again and again silence. Have I offended the Daniel Brou? Did I overstep some boundary of which I’m unaware? Did one of my detractors contact the Daniel Brou? I email and call the Daniel Brou, but the Daniel Brou’s friend hangs up on me. The emails go unanswered. Several years, yes, YEARS, pass. I’m fired from a couple jobs under suspicious circumstances…. I go to the Daniel Brou’s supervisor at Columbia: Daniel Brou hasn’t returned my messages and got me fired from a couple jobs! Daniel Brou’s supervisor: the Daniel Brou is super busy and can’t talk with you. Unless you give me direct evidence of his involvement in your firing, it’s your problem. Apparently, working within the system isn’t always effective. Conclusion: bosses really don’t care about the Daniel Brou’s performance. They give him money and don’t expect him to perform.
Mommy incentive:
Too late for the letter of recommendation. Too late for the information he might have provided. Still unanswered questions. I call Daniel Brou’s mommy. She finds out my name and hangs up the phone on me. I see a family resemblance here! The next email to Daniel Brou….. GETS A @@!!$%^ RESPONSE! YOU HEARD ME RIGHT! A RESPONSE!!!!!!! HE ANSWERED MY EMAIL!!!!!!
Not politely, obviously. But a response, nevertheless.
“Since you are contacting my family members, I have to respond,” says the Daniel Brou. He provides a superficial explanation for the aforementioned.
Conclusion:
The Daniel Brou, the PhD Columbia trained economist, isn’t motivated by financial incentives, collegial incentives, calls to teaching duty incentives, power play incentives.
But if you call up his mommy, he returns your calls.
With the Daniel Brous, call up their mommies for the best results!!!!!!!! |
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Date: July 13th, 2009 1:06 PM Author: adventurous charcoal point multi-billionaire GREAT! IM GLAD HE RESPONDED...DOES THIS MEAN THAT WE WONT HAVE ANY MORE POSTS ABOUT DANIEL BROU.....WONDERFUL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12231259) |
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Date: July 14th, 2009 3:16 PM Author: Charismatic Garnet Rehab Travel Guidebook Post removed by moderator for violating The Law of The Land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12242579) |
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Date: April 17th, 2009 10:50 PM Author: Abnormal black woman Received the letter today; got in! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11462211) |
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Date: April 18th, 2009 2:19 PM Author: Slate jewess pit got the mail today 4/18 Got in! See you in the Fall! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11466431) |
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Date: May 6th, 2009 12:23 PM Author: red giraffe den My EMPA application was fully completed prior to the March 1 "early" deadline, but I still haven't heard anything from them.
I got in touch with someone at the program office a couple of weeks ago, and they finally figured out that the application was somehow not in the pile that admissions was given. Extremely frustrating. Hopefully I'll actually hear from them before July... |
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Date: May 8th, 2009 12:18 PM Author: Slate jewess pit that's horrible! I'd be frustrated to. Good luck! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11678511) |
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Date: May 15th, 2009 8:40 PM Author: red giraffe den For the record, I received my acceptance letter and all is well.
Looking forward to seeing you guys in the fall... |
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Date: May 6th, 2009 3:06 PM Author: fishy pontificating center voyeur Welcome to SIPA - they always pull this kind of crap. Check out posts from previous years around the same time. One classic SIPA move is to require you to accept/decline an offer of admission BEFORE they've mailed you your financial aid package. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#11660590) |
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Date: June 25th, 2009 12:13 PM Author: bronze magical crackhouse friendly grandma I just decide to apply (last minute thing, June 25) for the EMPA, do you thing that I still have a chance to get in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12084227) |
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Date: July 5th, 2009 1:05 PM Author: Slate jewess pit What they said at the open house was the earlier the better just because of more slots being open. Otherwise, I think if you have what they are looking for, it doesn't matter whether you applied early or late. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12161713) |
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Date: July 5th, 2009 2:43 PM Author: Charismatic Garnet Rehab Travel Guidebook The class sizes are expandable. If you're someone they want they make room, no matter how many people they've accepted. It's only rigid unimaginative schools that count numbers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=970684&forum_id=3#12162305) |
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Date: July 13th, 2009 3:16 PM Author: Vermilion cheese-eating fat ankles yarmulke SIPA and the degrees they offer are TTT CASH COWS!
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
You're better off saving all that time and money and just getting work experiance. |
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Date: July 16th, 2009 8:36 PM Author: Histrionic Legal Warrant Congratulations, I look forward to seeing you at the EMPA Orientation!
-Jackie
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