Blake091
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You mean just general advice? That's tough... what do you want to know about? Academic life, social life, practical aspects? If you give some more specifics that would be helpful for me. I think another student posted this already but the NPSIA Student Association has a blog: npsiasa.wordpress.com, and there is also an academic blog as well npsia.wordpress.com. These may help with answering your questions. I will talk to the other students and try to put together a series on how to prepare for NPSIA or something similar for the summer.
For now honestly my instinct is to say relax and enjoy your summer - you are in now, no need to fret!
I suppose if you wanted to be super keen you could look up the past syllabi for the classes you are going to take and do readings ahead of time. This may be problematic though, as instructors (and thus assigned readings) change and if you read things now, by the time you need to recall the details for class you will have forgotten most of it.
More practically I would say try to get a feel for which classes you want to take and when they post the schedule for next year choose them and be prepared to register early, as some classes fill up quickly and you may not get a spot if you wait too long.
Also start thinking about where you want to live in Ottawa; I recommend, in this order 1) Centretown near Elgin, 2) Byward market area and 3) the Glebe/South Ottawa.
If you have more specific questions just let me know
@nomadic_joe I was wondering if you knew roughly how many students are admitted to
1. the MA program &
2. Each cluster in the MA
Thanks!
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My status went from "Preliminary Review Required" to "Review in Progress by Department" to "Recommended for Assessment" where it hung out for a number of weeks. After yesterday's e-mail, it still said "Recommended for Assessment" and we were advised that it would only change again when FGPA was processing, which since it has since changed back to "Review in Progress by Department", I'm assuming is happening...!
This is consistent with what the School of Social Work had posted as the status progressions: http://www1.carleton.ca/socialwork/2013/2013-14-msw-applicants-admissions-decisions
Apparently the last step after this one is "Recommended for Admission", which is when we get the official offer and funding details. Soon!
@Blake091 - A friend is doing international security and intelligence and loves the stream.
@thunderchunky - I don't think that we can change clusters after we're admitted, because the department assigns us to the cluster they feel most appropriate with our backgrounds, is my understanding. That being said, very few things are ever truly set in stone!
Thats really good to hear! I don't know anyone thats been in that stream before so I'm glad its getting some good reviews haha
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International Dimensions of Development, International Trade Policy and International Institutions and Global Governance, you? I think I'd honestly be happy with any of those haha.
Really though, the implications of being in a specific cluster are fairly miniscule. You take their econ class and one other cluster-specific one... That's it. Seems a bit funny to me, but I'm not complaining about the flexibility to customize the program!
I applied for International Security/Intelligence; Conflict Resolution; International Development
Hoping for the first but would be fine with the other two as well!
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Hello again!
Haha, I just figured I'd let you guys know that your statuses will probably be updated as the FGPA goes through your applications and processes the final offers. My status just changed this afternoon to "Review in Progress by Department", which apparently means they're going through it. On another thread referencing Carleton admissions statuses, the official offer was out either later that afternoon or the next day with admissions details (clusters for us, I'm assuming) and funding details. With any luck, the turnaround time is that quick for the NPSIA applications as well, and we'll have our official offers in hand!
To those still waiting to hear, I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Mine changed too, thanks for the heads up.
What cluster did you apply to?
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I know! I'm excited now haha. That'll probably turn to anxiety early next week, but right now, I'm excited haha. Good luck, everyone! Almost there!
All the anxiety....
I'm finding it incredibly difficult to focus on my last papers of undergrad with this looming in the not so distant future! haha.
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RE: March 15 - per the grad administrator, they start evaluating before that, but by setting that date, they avoid a whole lot of "how 'bout now?" communications.
It looks like historically results have come out around the 19th, so if that's any indication, next week is really when we should be checking. They had mentioned that results would come out mid- to late March, so next week falls comfortably in that category.
Good luck, all!
Thanks for the info!
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From the NPSIA website, go to prospective students, then "click to learn more about the MA program", and then application information, scroll down a little and its right there!!
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The NPSIA website currently says: "The assessment of completed applications for the forthcoming academic year will begin after 15 March."
So I'm Assuming we'll all be seeing recommended for assessment until at least friday....
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Try to live as though you have already been rejected. It has been my game plan thus far.
Quite possibly the best advice ever.
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My top School isn't even assessing applications until March 15th so there is still time!
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I have a bit of a dilemma, I've applied for graduate program in both Western Ontario and University of Toronto.
I haven't heard back from Toronto yet, but last week I received an offer from Western. I have to make my decision for Western by next week. Is this common? It seems early to have to make my mind up. I think I'd prefer to go to Toronto if I received an offer from them - however I'd feel like an idiot if I turned down my offer from Western only to be rejected from Toronto. If anyone has any advice, it'd be great..
Western did the same thing to me (I ended up getting into a program higher on my preference list so I declined Western), but I think you can always accept and then decline if you get into UofT. Maybe E-mail western and ask what they would like you to do. The Poli Sci grad administrator is quite approachable.
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I am trying to decide between 4 Canadian graduate schools: McGill, U of T, UBC, and Calgary. My best offer (by far) came from Calgary but it is the lowest in rank. Any advice?
Calgary also gave me a phenomenal offer (for the Master's of Strategic Studies program), but this is something I'm trying to reconcile at the moment too. I'm still waiting to hear back from NPSIA at Carleton - but at this point I'm trying to gauge Calgary's good (and improving) reputation / amazing funding package against NPSIA's stellar reputation and the fact that its in Ottawa is a nice touch (thats if I get in of course haha).
Best of Luck with your decision making!
NPSIA Fall 2013 Applicants
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Mine now says: "Development Projects and Planning" Which I find confusing haha. I really hope they send out the official things by tonight