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Would you also happen to have any information on placements Placements? For theory?

thats the joke!

Its June. Retake the GRE

Yeah no one gives a shit about public/private distinction. Just don't go to one of those crappy schools like Michigan or Berkeley or UCLA or Ohio State

Add Columbia to that list, as Bob Jervis shows no signs of slowing down.

Ohio State, Berkeley, IU, CUNY, and NYU What kind of methods do you want to do? I'm guessing formal theory? CUNY is broke, btw.

Someone from CP should chime in too see how regional specialities work in admissions. My hunch is that you're going to have to find a CP scholar who focuses on Turkey. I think that would be pretty hard to come by .

Michigan? University of Washington?

How should I treat poor performance in my 1st year of undergrad in my SOP/CV 1) Ignore it. 2) my guess is do 3 letters. they dont need to be in your subfield. 3) Sure. But you need to educate yourself on tiers . Rochester tier 5? 4) Sure.

Yeah.

I would say that about half of us are atypical, fwiw.

For one, no one gives a shit if you published in an undergrad journal. Sure the process may help you beef up your paper, and in doing so you must have conducted some original research, but its not a mark of quality any more than internet commenting. The fact of the matter is, is that a MA student most likely doesn't have the skills/tools to do sophisticated quantitative work to get into a respectable polisci journal. Moreover, the time it takes to get published from submission to printing is about 2 or 3 years, so if you go straight from a MA into a PhD, no one will know you got published until after you are in the program. Full disclosure: I published a single authored work on my subject of interest in a very closely related humanities field in a highly respectable (albeit European) journal. It helped me because I had a lot of deficiencies in my record, but sometimes I wish I didn't publish it, and 'saved' it so that I could beef up the research and publish it as a PhD student.

also characterizing marxist political theory as 'open-minded' and other types of political theory as 'not open minded' is a unfortunate way to go about learning political theory. And seconding what everyone said about the marxist theory job market.

I do not know, however, how that works with MA students. I don't know what kind of mentorship they get or what courses they can take.

Their strengths are that they can take someone with no math background at all and in two years they'll be doing good quant work.

What's your subfield? Methods? Whats your undergraduate gpa/research experience?

More importantly, what type of research in American politics would you like to do?

I can say for sure that you are going to have a hard time finding people to work with at Penn State and the University of Virginia who do qualitative American politics. Penn State in particular is known as an especially quantitative department. I mean, they helped create GDELT.

What programs are you looking at, or profs you are interested in working with, who do qualitative American politics?

look at Chicago & Columbia

Keep in mind if you studying American politics it is going to be very quant-heavy.

GPA less than optimal (ended up with a 3.0), Do you mean you had a 3.0 graduate GPA in the US? If so, I hate to tell you this but that will kill your PhD prospects.

Will your working experience help 'a lot'? No. It will help though. What are your chances? I have no idea. Will your AWA score hurt you? my hunch is yes. Seriously? probably not. I had a very low AWA (4.0) and did ok, but I think there may be a different standard for people where english is a foreign language? That standard may be more forgiving though, so I dont know. Either way, the 163v is quite good for anyone so that will help mitigate the lower AWA score.

Thanks for your help. Can you give me an idea of what you mean, re: type of course? I may audit it rather than formally enroll. I'll have a lot of statistical training in political science, but its obviously looking at applied research.

Hi All, I'm an incoming PhD student in political science that hopes to do a lot of quantitative/applied statistical work. Previously, I was studying to be an actuary and passed two exams, so I have a firm background in doing calculus problems by hand. My question is, beyond calculus I, II, and III, and linear algebra, how much more math will I need to know to do sophisticated applied statistical work? I know that I will have to understand the underlying concepts, but will I need to know how to calculate a lot of these equations, especially since I can do them in R? Thanks.