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发信人: bartonchen (闲云野鹤.等到那一天), 信区: Flyingoverseas
标  题: 签证问题准备（zz）
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年06月13日21:58:00 星期四), 站内信件

发信人: viliana (木兰), 信区: Visa
标  题: 签证问题准备
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jun 12 21:46:17 2002)

背景：清华自动化研究生毕业，工作一年，研究生专业：control theory and control
      engineering，不过做的东西基本都是supply chain management方面的。
      去CMU的graduate school of Industrial Administration，方向：运作管理。

下面是我准备的问题，以及我的回答：
1. What are you going to do in the United States?  (去美国干什么)
   I want to pursue a Ph.D. degree at Carnegie Mellon University. My major is
   Industrial Administration. And my specialty is Operations Management.
2. What is your purpose for the visa?
   I need an F-one visa to pursue a doctor degree in the CMU. I plan to finish
   my study in five years and then come back to China.
3. What is your major? Could you tell me something about it? (专业，方向)
   In what aspect of your major will you study? What is your specialty?
   My major is Industrial Administration with the specialty of Operations
   Management.The research of OM focus on helping enterprises to build more
   effective operation systems, to reduce costs, improve responsiveness, and
   accelerate the flow of information to customers, employees, partners, and
   suppliers. For example, how to control the inventory level, how to select
   the vendor, how to make purchase plan, and how to adjust production and
   running mode.
4. What is your academic background?
   I got the Bachelor degree in 1998, and Master degree in July 2001 in the
   Department of Automation in Tsinghua University.
5. Why do you like your major?
   Thanks to my advisors, since 1996 I joined the research groups in this
   challenging area, I have about five-year research experience. And I have
   participated in four projects. I find great satisfaction in doing and
   completing these projects. These cherished experiences inspired me with
   great interest in Operations Management, and lay solid foundation for the
   further research.
6. What’s the difference between your major now and the major in USA?
   Why do you change your major?
   In our department we mainly study manufacturing automation, which is
   included in Industrial administration in America. My specialty in the
   graduate study is Operations Management. In CMU, I will continue to do
   deep research on this field. It is an interdisciplinary field. Different
   University puts it in different department.
7. Why do you want to study in USA? Why not in other country?
   Why not in China?
   Why so many students in Tsinghua University want to study in USA?
   I can get better education in America than in China. The America has the
   most advanced science and technology, first-class facilities and many
   outstanding scientists.
8. Why do you want to pursue a doctor's degree?
   Since I was an undergraduate, I have had some opportunities to exercise my
   knowledge. These cherished experiences inspired me with great interest in
   this area, also let me realize what I have learned is so limited. I am
   eager to attend a world leading institution to furnish myself. From my
   perspective, the opportunity to be enrolled in CMU doctor program is a
   unique and invaluable one. I really want to continue to learn something.
9. Why do you want to pursue a PhD degree after you worked for a year?
   Since I was pursuing the master degree, I have had the strong desire to
   pursue the PhD degree. But I also want to gather more practical experience
   before further study. During the work, I know what I chose is right. I get
   more familiar with enterprises’ practical operations, and have deeper
   understanding with my major. The desire to study gets more and more strong.
10.Have you any scholarship?
   Yes. The Univ. offers me a Fellowship. This award will provide full-time
   tuition and annual stipend. It can cover all the necessary expense in the
   United States.
11.Why can you get the scholarship?
   Because of my past academic achievements and outstanding potential for
   doctoral work at CMU. I can get more financial aid if my academic progress
   is satisfactory.
12.What did you do with your work for Master Degree?
   Solving decision problems in Supply Chain Management, developing optimum
   models of vendor selection, purchase plan and the delivery decision.
   In these models I used the linear programming methods to solve these
   problems.
13.How do you know this Univ.? Why do you choose this Univ.?
   CMU has a very strong research and education record, recently being ranked
   top three in OM. Its research areas match my interests perfectly.
14.What/where are you working now?
   After graduation, I worked as software engineer in Beijing Join-network
   technology Development Corporation. A friend of mine introduced me to
   this company. We are developing application software to optimize operations
   management for an air transportation company.
15.Could you describe something about it?
   We mainly focus on the problems, such as: How to adjust price to gain more
   profit? And which kinds of cargos are needed now to balance the plane’s
   loading? What is the optimizing loading plan? I mean, the question is which
   cargo should be put where in the plane. They are some aspects of my major
   – operations management.
16.How about you salary?
   6 thousand RMB.
17.What is your plan? What will you do after graduation?
   What do you do with you PhD degree (major)?
   How are you gonna to use your degree?   (归国计划)
   After graduation, I will come back to China, and find a job in a big
   consulting corporation, such as China International Engineering Consulting
   Corporation. I will mainly focus on how to optimize enterprises’operations
   management. With the advanced management ideas and methods, I think I can
   find such a position easily. I hope I can help enterprises to build more
   effective operation systems, to reduce costs, improve responsiveness, and
   accelerate the flow of information to customers, employees, partners, and
   suppliers. Finally I hope together with my friends we can have our own
   company.
18.If you cannot find such positions, what will you do?
   Now the boss of our company is planning to establish a consulting
   corporation. I have about five-year research experience in this area and
   he was very satisfied with my work. He encouraged me to do deep research
   in America welcomes me to come back. One of my friends had set up their
   company. He also welcomes me to join his company.
19.Give me some reasons that you will come back to China? (为什么回国)
   You can get better salary and working condition in USA, why will you come
   back?
   Now many Chinese enterprises are searching better operation management mode.
   Compared with Chinese situation, the operation management mode in American
   enterprises is very successful. What I will learn is urgently needed
   in China. If I come back with a doctoral degree getting from top university
   in U.S., master the advanced technology and management method about
   enterprise operations, I can set up my own career easily in China.
20.What will be your salary when you come back?
   After I come back to China, I hope my salary would be more than one million
   RMB per year.
   Salary is not the most important thing. Operations Management is my favorite
   area. I would like to enjoy the successful feeling and satisfaction when I
   doing and completing many challenging work in China.
21.Can you explain why 90% Chinese students didn't come back?
   Oh…I am not the case. As for me, the only purpose that I go to U.S is to
   study the knowledge. What I will learn is urgently needed in China. If I
   come back, I am sure I will have a much more promising future in China,
   so I will definitely come back. With the development of China, the
   government provides a lot of favorable policy to attract the oversea
   students, such as position, salary, research fund, research facility and
   so on. I believe more and more oversea students will come back.
22.When did you take the GRE/TOEFL test?
23.How many universities have you applied? Which are they?
   How many admitted you? Which are they?
24.If you cannot get financial aid in the second year, what will you do?
   CMU offers me three-year fellowship. And I can get more financial aid if
   my academic progress is satisfactory.
25.If I can’t give you the visa, what will you do?
   I will apply again. From my perspective, the opportunity to be enrolled in
   CMU is a unique and invaluable one. I really want to continue to learn
   something.
26.If I will never give you the visa, what will you do?
   If I was so unfortunate, I will continue to do deep research in this area.
   I will keep contacting with the CMU’s professors, and try my best to learn
   it by myself.
27.这是我专门准备用来力挽狂澜的：）假如签证官想要据了我，或者正在犹豫的时候，
   我就要快速的说出下面的话：
   Appeal: Wait a minute! I just want to study. The opportunity to be
   enrolled in CMU is very invaluable for me. I am really the best candidate
   in the university this year. As you can see on this letter, every year OM
   doctoral program only select one or two students to admit from worldwide
   applicants. Please give me the chance to study. I will come back definitely.

另外我还专门针对我的情况想好如何解释，比如我其实是project manager，CMU给我传真
了一份supporting letter给vo的，上面写到我是project manager，这样的话，如果vo
问我，我就一定要有对策回答。
大家准备的时候，一定要针对自己的情况，详细准备，真的很重要，虽然今天VO除了看
我的I20,DS156/157,passport没看别的，不过充分的准备，让我很自信。

最后祝大家都好运！all go to window 10!

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