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  1. as a current MPA student here, I think the political science department of UGA probably is underrated, and has been bulking up in methods and institutions. I suspect the department's ranking will go up in the next rankings, but no idea how much. Part of the problem with rankings is the extent to which they're just based on reputation, rather than actual program. UGA's also getting rid of their silly requirement that you have to start in the master's program. They've lost many a good student cause of that. You're going to be able to work in government with a degree from either place. I'd probably lean toward UNC though, just cause of how well known it is and the fact its a pretty large leap ahead in a number of ways. UGA may get close to them in 10 or 20 yrs, but I think UNC is just solidly ahead. Even if UGA is an underrated program.
  2. Berkeley for formal theory and American politics
  3. hey, i got to emory, but made up my mind the other week to head out to Berkeley. it's a great school and atlanta is a fine town with a lot to do. austin is probably fun too..i wouldn't decide as much based on that, since both will have good stuff to do for outside school. also, the US News rankings between the 2 don't mean a lot, especially as they haven't been updated since 2005. emory's placement also is better than texas: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/21/ranking I think in a lot of department's minds, Emory is considered a better place than Texas. Plus the program is small and you'll get good attention. So I'd lean pretty heavily toward Emory as well.
  4. 11 way tie for 14th place! pretty great.
  5. Berkeley certainly is a great program, but I really don't believe only one or two people turned them down. Some of their admits must be getting into Harvard, Columbia, GTown, etc. No way virtually everyone takes Berkeley over that. Of course admissions people are going to hype up their program.
  6. still haven't gotten my mit notification
  7. ignore this, wont let me clear my comments
  8. one of the professors at Berkeley told me that he doesn't think funding will be a problem for this upcoming year (in that he doesn't think there will be admitted students without aid for the first year). I think you really should look into Michigan out of those (unless you visit the campus and really dislike it). It's a top notch school and program with great placement.
  9. you have to totally ignorant or a masochist to randomly throw an application to uchicago :wink:
  10. i totally see the allure of going to GWU, since they fund and provide you with the DC experience. Georgetown, though...just not worth it without the funding. As for me, I've had the DC experience twice now, and definitely feel I'm better studying politics from a safe distance.
  11. good lord. why does anyone apply to georgetown?
  12. haha, you sound a lot like me. i started off in engineering then transferred out after freshman year. I didn't really have a strong upward trend in my grades, either, because I didn't suddenlly realize I wanted to do a PhD in political science. I decided that when i got into my master's program (also a top 5 public policy/admin school) where I've done exceedingly well. I ended up graduating undergrad with a 3.2, but am at the other end of the gpa spectrum for master's. I also have similar GRE's, all above the 95th percentile, except for math, which is above the 90th. I've taken some hits so far, but I've also gotten into some pretty nice places. I think I have some recomendations from my graduate school professors are somewhat well known in the field (one guy, who more or less was my mentor, is pretty much a rising star in the political science world - i cowrote a paper with him last fall). Hopefully everyone here who hasn't gotten in somewhere yet will do so. If it comes down to reapplying for next year, all I can recomend is really to spend a lot of time on the applications. I was pretty intensive on mine, perfecting each sentence and picking schools strategically along the spectrum that also matched my interests. Ultimately, it really comes down to selling your interests. I realize now that a few of the places I (probably) have been dinged at, I still could have done a better job with that.
  13. i think the power of statistical methods and modeling is really important in understanding both real world and more theoretical phenomena for instance, even though perfect competition is a model that never can be met in the real world, it is a really important idea for understanding markets of all kinds (economic, political, etc). i read a post somewhere saying that qualitative research is set in the real world, whereas quantitative is not (ergo qualitative is much better). i hope i never run into a guy who can make foolish generalizations like that in my career.
  14. I also think certain decision-makers at the top for the iraq war weren't exactly interested in outside or contrasting opinions, either. Such is the way of a pyramidally organized executive (and with a leader who doesn't know a whole lot about history and world politics influenced by guys who he trusts completely who already had made up their minds).
  15. I haven't gotten in to any policy PhD schools yet (but I haven't received any rejections, either!) I do have Poli Science Ph.D love from Emory, Berkeley and Washington university in St. Louis (WashU) so far, though I went to a top 5 undergraduate university and made a 3.3 there. I have a 4.0 in my top 5 (related) master's program, though. My GRE was 790 math, 710 verbal, 6 writing. I have some good internship experience, although my two years of work experience after college wasn't related to what I do now.
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