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  1. Hi POLIS, I have received a better funded offer from a better ranked university in the US. This pretty much sums it up. U of T is currently trying to top off my other offer, but I doubt it will be possible. Do you have a similar reason?
  2. University of Toronto: I will very likely be declining my funded offer in comparative politics. Best of luck to those in the wait list.
  3. Just as I suspected, the U of Toronto post wasn't real. I just received this from their Graduate Administrator: Dear PhD applicants: Greetings from the Department of Political Science. Because many of you have been wondering, I am sending this email to confirm our timeframe for response to our PhD applicants. We have our admissions meeting tomorrow and will send out our first round of offers early next week. If you are being admitted in the first round you will hear from us by Tuesday of next week. We will email all remaining applicants between Tuesday and the end of next week. This includes applicants who are being waitlisted or refused admission. Unfortunately, we won’t have a ranked waitlist so we are unable to let applicants know where you stand on the waitlist. We give our admitted applicants two weeks from the date of our offer to reply and at the end of this time the admissions committee will revisit the waitlist and decide on further offers. I hope this helps. Unfortunately I may not be able to reply to responses to this email due to email traffic on other fronts but I just wanted to let you all know our timing. If you for some reason you are no longer interested in being considered for admission please send a note to confirm. Thank you for your patience.
  4. Hi everyone ! I'm interested in applying for a PhD in political science at McGill (and have a prospective director there) and U of T. Where else do you think would it be reasonable for me to apply (in the US or in Canada)? How can I improve my profile and how good can it be considered to be? Here is my profile: PROFILE: Type of Undergrad Institution: top 20 best universities in Canada Major(s)/Minor(s): International relations Undergrad GPA: 3,5/4 (GPA for the Political Science classes only is 3,9). Type of Grad: Political Science Grad GPA: 3,95/4 for my Master's degree in Political Science. GRE: Yet to complete, but being a non-native speaker I assume the results will be (at best) average for the verbal and writing sections. Any Special Courses: A+ in Qualitative methods, A+ in Quantitative methods, A+ in Mathematics for Social Studies. IQMR at another university, funded by my university. Letters of Recommendation: I could expect one very strong letter from my director (a new professor - no tenure), one strong letter from a tenured professor from my university + one at least good letter from an internationally rising teacher from abroad. Research Experience: Two years as a research assistant in a Research Chair and a Research Center. I have received national scholarships as well as diverse Faculty grants. I currently have one publication as a third author in a book. I am working on three different research projects, one considered suitable for a top-5 journal by my co-authors (I am third author on this one [but I am first author on the two others projects]). I don't know if these projects will manage to get published before my application in December/January, let's assume to be pessimistic that they will be «under review» at that time. I also currently have 3 conferences participation and expect at least two more before my application. Teaching Experience: None. Subfield/Research Interests: Public opinion and electoral behaviour. Other: Internship in an Embassy abroad. Internship at the Ministry of Culture. Translator for a foreign university and for a relatively high-profile political project team. Thank you for your help!
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