milka49

Attrition

I'm currently at the University for another PhD program but am switching. I've taken four courses with the political science department here and I can tell you the professors seem very supportive. The students, likewise, support one another and seem generally more tight-knit and happy than I would expect from most PhD cohorts. I'm by no means going to claim I'm an expert on political science programs generally. In fact, I applied only to Minnesota. But I can tell you that your good feeling is probably real.

I'm not expert but I applied to them three years ago and didn't hear for the longest time. I finally reached out to them in, perhaps, the beginning of March and they told me I was wait listed. I heard by early April that they had gotten enough acceptances from those they made offers to that I would not be accepted. From personal experience, then, I'd guess that you are likewise wait listed.

Check yo email if you applied to UMN.

Sorry to imply it absolutely wasn't possible. I was more trying to say that a vast majority go out sometime only a bit before mid-February, so that if people haven't heard back yet, it's not because they're not in or this is a fluke year, and instead it's probably some special circumstance that someone has heard back. It's good they're admitting with an eye for a diversity fellowship. I know they're, to some extent, trying to build up their diversity, so that's exciting. Congrats!

Minnesota typically releases in early to mid February. The acceptance may be a Masters student here who got into the PhD program or may be a troll. I'd be shocked if it was a standard applicant.

I am hoping to take at least three graduate level courses next semester. Hopefully that signals that I am serious, gets me good recommendations, and allows me to naturally produce a writing sample worthy of the admissions committees' time. Here's to hoping that they aren't too put off by my theory grades. Thanks for your input!

Hello! I am toward the middle of my PhD career in Statistics and am considering walking out the door. My program has had a horribly high attrition rate with older students who are similar to me due to one qualifying exam, and I fear I am next. The constant anxiety has led to some mediocre grades in a select few classes (mostly those related to the material this qualifying exam would cover). However, I have gotten As or A-s in all classes not related to that exam. I find the attrition rate to, perhaps, be a blessing in disguise. It seems pretty indicative of the program's overall culture, and perhaps I just want to get out sooner rather than later. It's unfortunate because this shift is new; I've talked with older students who have seen the department change over the past few years. Anyways, I'm starting to think about next moves, and I've found many of the tools I've learned in my program very useful to a particular interest of mine: political science. I also think the classes I've excelled in lend themselves well to a political science graduate program. I've looked at political methodology curricula and think I could thrive in this sort of environment. Has anyone out there gone from a quantitative background to political science like this? I've taken exactly one political science class, and that was in graduate school and was still a statistics course primarily. I wonder whether I would even be remotely competitive given this lack of background. I may have the opportunity to stick around in my program next semester and take some courses in political science. If so, what types of courses would make me more prepared/ help me make sure this would be a good move? Any advice is appreciated as I watch my life plans essentially crumble before me :) Here's to hoping they rise from the ashes, better and stronger.

https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do That should hopefully work for everyone who is struggle busing.

It's definitely 1500 unless there is some miracle.

Just three nightmares in the past week. I guess either I'm more pessimistic than you or dreams have predictive power and I'm getting straight P's and F's. Maybe this means you get HM?

This site should add more options than just heart, up, and down. Where's the laughing crying emoji when I need it?

This is new for me. Yes I pressed the search button. No, nothing for 2018 comes up, as is the case with 2019 as well. It's been a while since I was able to access the, like, press releasey version of the 2018 results found at https://www.nsfgrfp.org/, but up until yesterday I was able to get the list via the process above. Not now. Sign?

Do any of the people who know reviewers know if they have submitted their work yet or where they are in the process? I'm hoping "after April 9" means next week, but theoretically it could mean anything, so I'm curious if we should be hoping for next week at all.

As much torture as this is, I'm glad they are taking the extra time. I've heard people say that the panels were canceled, and other say they weren't. I hope they weren't and I hope the delay in results means that, despite the shutdown, they are taking the reviewing as seriously as they do every other year. I know this might be coming from a place of already-in-school privilege, and I can't imagine what that added stress must be, but as someone who probably put triple digit hours of work into their application, I'm in a way glad they aren't rushing this.