Do you (or anyone here) have any idea how funded CIR offers might interact with the waitlist? Like, being on the latter shouldn't disqualify one from receiving the former right? (indeed, I'd think it more likely they'd give that offer to someone they waitlisted, but I'm just curious as to whether the wait for a decision re: waitlist might take so long that they don't have any funded CIR offers left or something). Just hoping to keep all options open given the somewhat lackluster results I've gotten this cycle.
On that subject, to the faculty that have been so wonderful as to post on this forum, how do waitlists tend to work in the political science field? Is getting off them relatively common or a once in a blue moon occurrence? And what separates an accepted candidate from a waitlisted one? This is particularly important for my nerves (and I'm sure the nerves of many others) right now given that I have waitlists from the programs I most want to attend.