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Sure! I have send you my email address. you can also send me yours.

Yeah, great pressure. I really wanna go to Yale because that is where my dream girl is pursuing her Phd... To me it is getting in and a happy lifetime, or rejected with a lonely and broken heart.

That is what I am thinking; MPSA is a low-barrier platform for PhD students to communicate. I am still happy though, and feel myself assimilated into the community before actually enrolling in a Phd program. Thanks.

Just received the message of acceptation. The paper is for in IPE/Asian Politics panel. gradGPA 3.9+ in UCSD GRE 333 RL from UCSD tenured professors (familiar with my work/enrolled in course).

Thanks adapt. I would apply for 10-12 schools and limit my scope on 20s-50s, as I am so reluctant to lean on top schools.

Update On GRE: V163+Q170+AW4.0. Given the flawed Verbal and AW, is there any need to retake it if I really, really want to stay in pool of hope for Yale and school at that level? Also, I am going to ask 3 tenured professors in UCSD (enrolled in their seminars, with class thesis) for RL.

Everyone posted above told you exactly the same message: Go to HK, Taiwan or Singapore are way, way better than China Mainland. Since you are so interested in Fudan, I have something more to say. I came from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and many faculty of the so-called "political science" department (again, it is self-alleged, titular "science" while no scientific methodology was applied) graduated from Fudan. Without offence, the most important lesson I learnt from them was, what is not Political Science. It would be a really bad, bad option to pursue PhD in China Mainland. If for financial reasons, you would not study in US/Canada/HK/Japan, why not choose Singapore? They have generous government funding and living expense is not that ridiculous. Besides, correct me if I were wrong, but what I heard was even for Chinese PhD students in engineering school, they might expect to receive funding below the level of 2000 RMB/per month? Pretty low, unless one day in the near future the exchange rate is 1:1.5. As for learning language, China mainland is a sounding option.

China University sucks. Never, never think about going there, because literally, without offence, Chinese universities desecrate what is calling "Political Science". HK and Taiwan, or even Japan and Singapore are good options, and they are not that hard to apply.

check out this article. http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/political_science/users/jovana.carapic/public/Ranking%20Political%20Science%20Journals_%20Reputational%20and%20Citational%20Appraoches.pdf

don't be so picky bro. It is not a bad thing when somebody start the topic on how to prove academic capability, especially when this forum is quiescent. Another suggestion is, try to enroll in some PhD courses and co-work with PhD students. Then you would discover scientific and methodological clues above the regional interests. Regional interests (including language skills, experience with that region) is only a small portion of tool kits in political science study, and could be a particular advantage to you. But beyond that, there is still a lot to do to make meaningful Political Science proposals.

Relation with russia is a common trap (at least you can see lots of people quoting "Sino-US relationship" as their research interests). In my opinion, SoP ought to be more specific, and you should elaborate what tool kits you have to finish the study. Methodology is most crucial, regardless of what regional interests you might have.

IR/PS does not fund new students since 2008. What I know is most PhD students affiliated with IRPS are actually enrolled into Political Science Department.

Hi, I am quite impressed since everyone seems to have a strong background and special experience a little scared I plan to apply for PhD on Comparative Politics/Political Economy. Here is my slim background. Shy. BE in Information Security (a branch of Computer Science) from top 5 University in China Mainland, 2008-2012 GPA 3.2/4.0 (really lousy, I know. It is average score in my University.) Minored in History at the same time (3.6/4.0) MA on International Politics from UCSD IR/PS, 2012-2014 (expected) 50 credits earned so far, with one PhD seminar course in PolSci Department GPA 3.95/4.0 GRE 610+800+3.5 (taken in 2011), going to retake in August Familiar with Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Statistics. Proficiency in Stata, C++, Matlab and R. I have devised some data-mining programs in undergraduate and graduate school, and have some knowledge on data visualization. Some RA experience in UCSD. No publication so far. Some coursework: Marketization and Liberalization of China Official Media, which included time-series analysis and I mined the data on my own. Effects of Public Debt on Economic Growth. Biased data and I have no energy/time fixing it. China Diplomacy Network during Hu Administration, which has good data and reasonable model (Co-working with a PhD student in UCSD and probably publishable) In this summer I would co-work with a professor on the subject of pollution outsourcing and international trade. My wishlist: Yale UCSD Rochester Upenn GWU Georgetown JHU I know I have overestimated myself but I am really in love of Political Science, so I need a safe place where I can go to... Should I replace some top 20 schools on my list with some ranking in 40s, 50s and 60s?