<p>I have received the email offer letter from University of Wyoming and University of New Mexico. My major is chemistry and I have applied their PhD degree. The university of new mexico gives me
<em>$17,194.20 Teaching Assistantship (divided in to 10 installments
for a monthly allotment of $1,714.92)
*$ 2,000.00 Summer stipend (Approximate)
*$ 1,305.00 Annual Health Insurance
</em>$ 7,262.00 Tuition</p>
<p>*$27,761.20 TOTAL
and the University of Wyoming gives me graduate assistantship stipend of $21,500 plus full tuition and fee waiver including medical insurance for the 2008-2009 academic year.
I hope I can get advise from you . Thank you.</p>
<p>Umm...what exactly do you want?</p>
<p>I am from P.R.China and I do not know much about the location , the life or the study of these two universities. The university of new mexico inform me that I must give my decision to them next week, so I want get some advise first.</p>
<p>Wyoming is pretty boring, frankly. It's in the middle of nowhere, and there's pretty good skiing or so I heard, if that's your kind of thing. The entire state has less than a million people.</p>
<p>New Mexico's pretty boring too, although probably not as boring as Wyoming. I think you'll be in Albuquerque, and according to a former teacher of mine who used to live there, it's a pretty young, growing city (kind of like Phoenix, Arizona), I think you might like it there better, but it's by no means NYC or LA.</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea which chemistry program is better, but ceteris paribus-all other things equal-I would pick New Mexico. If you can't make up your mind, ask them if you can think about it for another week or so. It's absolutely ridiculous for them to ask you to decide where you'll be for the next 3-5+ years in a week (don't tell them that). Just say it's a big decision for you and you need a little more time.</p>
<p>See if you can visit both places, if you can make the trip out here. New Mexico and Wyoming probably aren't easy places to visit, I understand that, but making a decision after having seen the campus and surrounding area vs. not having seen the campus and surrounding area makes a huge difference. You may have to transfer flights more than once however.</p>
<p>Thank you very much. You did a great favor to me.
And I also want to ask you that if I have taken this offer(because I have applied over 30 universities due to my low score of GRE and I am afraid that no other universities will give me such a offer like university of new mexico and university of wyoming) , can I make another choice when I get a offer from a better university before I send the I-20 files to the university or before April 15 ( both universities are the members of Council of Graduate Schools)?</p>