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What top 10 department admits people w/o funding? please out them so we can shame them

Some people have families/parters/obligations which make taking a longer shot at a lower ranked department not a good decision.

Wrong Forum

huh?

Keep in mind the above viewpoint is a highly idiosyncratic one.

The biggest question is: you have never done research, but want to devote your life to research?

Mentioning the massive amount of luck you had seems appropriate. The data do not lie: the chances of getting a TT job coming out of a low ranked PhD program are very slim. Which is fine, but people need to know that going into it.

At Michigan?

I have a hard time understanding what exactly you are asking.

Prestige matters. The bottom line is: if you want a tenure track job, only go to a top-10 program.

wrong forum, but the only question related to political science here is that MAs in political science are generally not worth it.

Also, Bayesian statistics does not rely on repeated sampling, but flat priors yield almost exact results as maximum likelihood estimation, providing further evidence that the superpopulation claims are irrelevant.

I don't undertand. Could you please explain? statistical significance of what? Interpret it how?

Michigan and Princeton too.

Your GREs are too low for Ohio State and Penn State, especially the quant portion. I don't know about the other schools. If you get get your GREs up, that will help a lot, considering your GPA is great.

Because thats what PhD programs are designed to do: train people to be professors. Yes and someone attending a lower ranked program needs to know that those positions are the most likely outcome. Its not a value judgment, its about information. Keep in mind I never said anything normative.

I think that's an odd mix of schools. 1 top 20, a top 30, and then some that aren't even ranked? If you go to a school like, say, the University of North Texas or LSU, are you ok with most likely not getting a tenure-track job when you graduate? That's the reality of the situation and what you need to ask yourself.

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In order: 1) has a neglible effect. 2) The GRE is learnable, presumably your verbal can be improved 3) Doesn't hold people back. No one has publications worht anything at this point 4) this has nothing to do with admissions

Please do not mention this on a SOP.

These were things of your own making, not exogenous shocks. Wait a year and re-take the GREs if you want a shot. Also, what does this mean?

doesnt matter.

Your quant will serverly hurt your chances at a top 10 program. If you want to get into a top 10 program, re-take the GREs and do better on the quant portion.

International Experience is nice but its that about it. I dont think its as important as the GREs, LORs, GPA, statement, etc.

Its simply very unlikely that anyone with a 153 on the math portion of the GRE will get into a top (read: top 10 program). Its not really about 'making up in other areas', its that the adcom is operating under incomplete information and has a lot of candidates to pick from.