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Oh angie good to know! Thank you for attending that session... and there are how many spots again in interdisciplinary programs? That will give us an idea of how many spots remain keeping in mind that they admit more students than spots available. And think of it this way about 160 applications were flat out rejected this round and this could have been us!

Yes I read the same thing so it is indeed 2 concentrations and one of each thanks!

Angie, I was wondering about Sciences Po's concentrations, thematic and regional. You get to pick one of each or 2 of each? I was under the impression that it was one of each but it was brought to my attention that their instructions kind of leave the window opened for different interpretations. What's your take on it?

Yes I'm hoping they create a fb group soon for IHEID and Sciences Po that would be very helpful. I read that person's post on the other board about the MIA but it's not quite clear to me what they meant... oh well!

Ok somehow it's not letting me edit my previous post anymore... but I got into the Development Practice program at Sciences Po *relief*

I know everyone on this thread applied to IHEID but did anyone else apply to LSE and Sciences Po (other than Angie)? I applied to both in November and still haven't heard back so I wanted to compare notes. In last year's LSE thread they were saying that they send rejections really fast so the longer you are 'under consideration' the better... I hope it's true! We won't hear anything back for the next 2 weeks most admission administrations are going on holiday break now. And the waiting continues....

Thanks angie for sharing this! I agree they should just scrap early admission round if they don't want to do a rolling admission kind of system.

Mickun that is reassuring! I'm giving myself a headache over this and March is so far off there is no point speculating. I have decided to start worrying about Sciences Po and LSE instead. I hope you are thinking of applying to more schools since we won't hear anything from IHEID for a while

Thanks for the clarification mickun! That does make more sense. It explains why LSE has a 10% admission rate for the programs I was considering. But if they give out more acceptances than spots how come IHEID is holding us off to second round?

Thanks thedoublebarrel! I'm still waiting to hear back from Sciences Po and LSE hopefully wayyy before IHEID in march. They are my top 3 choices. By the way I did some digging and the acceptance rate is NOT 33% it's 18%. There is an article on their site about the incoming class of 2012 wiith very detailed numbers. Here is the link sorry it's in French: http://graduateinstitute.ch/fr/contents/news/corporate/news_945.viewContent.html For those who don't understand French at all it basically says out of 1644 students 288 were admitted. They come mostly from the UK and North America. They then cite all the fancy US/UK schools these students are coming from (see I knew it matters). Interdisciplinary masters admitted 129 students (67 in MIA and 62 in Mdev) 37% got scholarships 62% are women 51 % speak 3 languages, 33 % speak 4 and 16 % speak 5 languages.

I don't think it's just a round of rejections. On another board someone annouced they got into the IR/PS program. No one as far as I can tell for interdisciplinary programs. But who knows maybe they are not done notifying admitted students. Maybe they started with us postponments.

It just says that my application will be reassessed with the second round of applications early next year and that I will find out the decision in March.

Thanks angie

I just received an unconditional offer from SOAS for Development Studies

Wow mickun and doublebarrel! I was hoping that since you didn't get an email yesterday that might be a good sign. That seems like an awful lot of people push back to the second round! Like angie I think interdisciplinary masters are the ones with postponments. I'm also wondering if anyone was even rejected at this round...

Ha ha ha thanks I feel better already! I think it's time for some humour on this board I'm tired of stressing about things I have no power to change. Time to laugh a bit!

Angie I am soo jealous! I have been talking to you for weeks and you have never offered to imsg with me! Here comes curious_grad and I am tossed to the side lol

Thank you curious_grad! I surely hope so for all of us! At least it means none of us was bad enough to be rejected so there is hope.

I can guarantee you that field experience will get you those jobs eventually especially if you know yourself that academia is not what you want to be stuck in for 5+ years! Of course you have to pay your dues first and work your way up to that after years of experience.I can't wait to finish the masters and get to work there is no way I'm staying in school for several more years to do a PhD!

I thought you didn't want to work in academia and were looking for a professional degree?

I too looked at their Mphil but I knew right away that research was not the direction I wanted to take and scratched it off my list!

I know the feeling its not that hot in Los Angeles only 27 C and I'm wondering what I will do until March!!! Not opening that page until then that is for sure! By the way Buenos Aires is on my bucket list it must be so beautiful there! Either IHEID did not get that many applicants during the first round or they are playing it super safe and only admitting exceptional candidates... either way they should scrap that early round thing if every year they are going to push most applicants back to March. What's the point then?

so they ask for 2 papers? Good thing I didnt even consider Oxbridge that personal statement was the hardest thing for me to write.

Im the most pessimistic person on the planet and even though I got a postponement and unlike Angie no word from Sciences Po I am not falling apart and still very hopeful! That's a miracle! And I am sure not hearing back from them just yet in your case is a good sign...

If it was a rejection my thinking is you would have been notified first! before us postponements no? I still think its a great sign and you may be accepted in the first round!