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  1. Go here: http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/ and type in "political science." You'll see all current results. with dates and any details that a poster chose to disclose. Specify schools that you're interested in, and you can see their admission results, including previous years. Edit: oh wait do you mean prospective dates? (e.g. when certain schools are likely to announce their decision this year?) I think either (1) on that very same page by looking at the previous years, or (2) judging from the information received in a personal exchange with the faculty or grad students from those schools.
  2. That's awesome news, cautiously! While I can totally relate to your anxieties, I also totally agree with what others said: it is a very positive sign, and a great chance. I'd venture to guess that they should be interested in your project, and that your switch of fields may look very much like your strength, if you present it well. I'd say consider it not a drawback on your application (and thus don't explain it as a drawback), but as an additional expertise that will enable you to make a specific contribution to the field. Without knowing much of the specifics, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to produce a more constructive advice for you. Congratulations, once again, and good luck talking to them! Let us know how it went!
  3. Edit: oh nevermind, I think I translated "should not be" in a wrong way. I'll save my 'personal stories.'
  4. Man, as person who grew up as far from NYC as possible (and for whom this city has always been surrounded by a myth of being "the world's capital") I can't imagine why anyone would want to move from there. ))) Edit: Oh I've just realized you wrote NYS, not NYC.
  5. Hi guest2401, and welcome! Yeah, gradcafe is an odd sort of place: it does both soothing some anxieties and exacerbating others. In any case, good luck with your season! I'll venture to answer your questions.) - for me, location is important. I am one of those people who are not (devoted to academia enough to be) ready to move wherever just to be able to get a degree. I want all parts of my life to be more or less in harmony, and so I considered I wouldn't want to spend 5-6 years in a place that makes me miserable. I tried to only apply to places where I would be willing to relocate. Because of it I didn't apply to some schools that would be a good fit otherwise, instead trying to find equivalent options (in terms of fit and ranking) somewhere else more agreeable. Also, many people here (including me) have to factor their relationships in when making decisions where to apply and where to go. - I myself come from a philosophy background, and I got an idea such transitions are not uncommon. - I am not an American, of course. But I heard that (in Political Science) it is easier to get a job in Europe with an American degree, than to get a job in the US with a European degree. Somewhere in this thread people talked about it, but my source (which is not at all anything authoritative) is mainly my conversations with my colleagues and professors in Europe and the US. So here I'm restating a common impression, rather than providing a valid source of information. What about you? Are you coming from a different academic background yourself?
  6. ? Availability of funding for conferences and additional training (like ICPSR or the likes). Very important.
  7. Even better, check the results board for your specific schools (e.g. put "political science university X" in the search window), and see how it was in previous years.
  8. In most cases I'd say offers, but there are plenty of exceptions to this rule.
  9. Hey, that's Eduard Khil! P.S. I've spotted your reference to the Russian Winnie the Pooh earlier on this forum. I love it that you (1) somehow found this cartoon; (2) found it interesting. I figured you might also like couple of others: 1) Sort of a Tom&Jerry, but very Soviet and with wolf/rabbit in place of cat/mouse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV3hIdOcRLk 2) A series about a Soviet boy who decided to leave his parents and live on his own in a village, because he wasn't allowed to have pets (a cat). www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aamATyJa48 -- that's the first episode, there should be couple more of those on youtube.
  10. Definitely get in touch with the DGS. At this point it's absolutely justified. Sorry that you are experiencing such problems with it! Unfortunately, I got an impression it's not uncommon. Last year I had to call three schools to inquire my status, and thus learned that I was rejected. Out of curiosity I kept checking my online status for a certain Canadian school, and guess what—in September 2013 it still was "under review"! I stopped after that. I guess we're better be prepared for things of this sort. Edit: I should correct myself right away and say that I did not mean to suggest that in your case it is a rejection at this point. My apologies if I sounded too pessimistic. There is always hope, plus I should correct myself and say that at least one of the aforementioned schools replied that if I had not heard any news by then it meant a wait list of some sort. That still didn't work out for me at the end, but I imagine for someone it did.
  11. Haha you're right. I should stop looking too much into these things. *going back to her Game of Thrones*
  12. One of my applications has just changed its status from "under review" to "being reviewed." Am I missing some subtle shadow of a difference between these two, or are those essentially the same? confused... Why change it now I wonder.
  13. And I don't watch the Bachelor, but have a guilty pleasure of my own. My boyfriend got me a full set of Game of Thrones books for Christmas. While waiting for the new season, I've started reading them. I'm near the end of the first book... Eddard Stark just talked to the Queen Cersei. You know what's gonna happen next!
  14. ))) What's the lecture on?
  15. Thank you for the advice, and sorry for the disturbance. I meant no evil naturally, just manifested my ever-presenting language anxiety. Plus, I honestly tried to google this question before posting, but wasn't able to find anything on the matter.
  16. Congrats to xuejia, The Gnome, and other admits! xuejia, it's awesome that you didn't have to wait long for the good news to follow bad Meanwhile, I have a language related question. Do you guys ever use something like "I am very honored by the opportunity," when you respond to a college acceptance (specifically, to your POI's email). On the one hand, I want to express my gratitude; yet, on the other, I feel it sounds so formal. How do you respond to an acceptance?
  17. Very sorry to hear that. Wish you to get good news soon from some of the other 12.
  18. Don't start doing it to yourself. I am very sure you've spent enough time weighing every component of your application as thoroughly as it could be done, when you were applying—so the result should be very well balanced. And you have just got your first acceptance—what better recognition there could be! Congratulations on that, and I'm sure there'll be more to come. P.S. Of course, this is all said by a person who rereads her applications materials on a daily basis.
  19. One of my favorite philosophers )
  20. (or you're quite an awesome applicant) Anyhow, I get a sense that's unusual for the schools to spend money on the people they didn't accept yet.
  21. Oh wow that's quite a generous program!
  22. I am generally inexperienced about it, but from what I heard - it's pretty typical to be invited to a visitation weekend. As for the expenses, my only acceptance—Boulder—offers to cover a part of the tickets cost. (I would just name the sum, but then again I'm inexperienced, and don't know whether that would violate some sort of ethical code (?)) As far as I know for my friends (who got accepted last year), they all were offered to be partly reimbursed for their trips.
  23. I see a bunch of UC-Davis acceptances there. Congratulations to the admits! Anyone from here got one?
  24. I guess I should clarify myself. People come there, fall in love with the place, and never leave. Otherwise, it sounds creepy, not intriguing.
  25. It's incredibly beautiful, that's true. I looked at the pictures on Google today, and the mountains are simply breathtaking. Also I talked to a couple of CU students, and they say that Boulder is an odd little place. People come there and never leave. Sounds intriguing to me.
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