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    2014 Fall
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    PhD in Political Science / MAIR

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  1. That's partially the result of our core requiring multiple maths and sciences, which have never been my strong suit combined with a persistent desire to gain fluency despite not having the greatest facility with non-romance languages. At anyrate, the faculty members I'd consider at Penn State would be: Gretchen Caspar, Vineeta Yadav, Zaryab Iqbal, Jams Piazza, and Robert Packer. I also know for a fact there is a grad student studying exactly what I want to study, except in Somalia. UPENN --> Robert Vitalis, Anne Norton, Ann Viden, Hocine Fetni. UPENN (not as much as UCLA did) also emphasized the interdisciplinary-nature of the Poli Sci PhD.
  2. This is my first time on here, and I honestly don't really know how to read all the information I'm getting, so I'm hoping some of you might be willing to help me out a little bit my chancing me based on your knowledge and experience with these kinds of applications which probably far outstrips my own. I'm really hoping to end up at a PhD Program with a strong MENA Focus So Here's what I got: African-American Student BA Double Major in Political Science & Middle East Studies from Top 10 Liberal Arts College GPA: 3.2 / 4 (3.55 in Major) GRE: 162 V / 152 Q / 4.5 AW -Proficient in STATA -Languages: Arabic (Professional Working Capacity) ; Moroccan Colloquial (Limited working proficiency) -Ralph Bunche Fellow ; Presented research on Morocco at APSA Annual Conference *4 Internship Experiences, all research based with NGO's, including 2 Abroad in Morocco and Tunisia *Spent in aggregate over a Year Abroad (A summer each in Tunisia & Morocco, and a Fall & Winter in Morocco) *40 Page Thesis being written on Post-revolutionary identity in Libya; Considering writing a second 40 page thesis on the Druze -Incredibly close with my professors and advisors who'd be writing my rec and they are certainly experts in their field, all Ivy-edu-ed and all that stuff. I think my recommendations would be fine. And I while I'm fairly annoyed at the GRE AW score, I've always been good at writing and expressing myself in terms of SOP's etc. -Also, speaking bluntly. I'm not all that great at math, as my Quant score would probably indicate. I also felt awful when I took my GRE and I'm not sure whether or not I should take it again, so any advice on this front would help as well! -And lastly, I'm a Comparativist and an intepretivist in most of my methodology, and those techniques formed the basis for my Research presentations and papers thus far. I suppose I'd be at the cross section of Comparative / IR / and Political Identity or Sociology I suppose in my research interests thus far which have focused on political identity in newly democratized or currently democratizing states ; as well as post-conflict transformation. My Wishlist: (no particular order) -Harvard -Columbia -UCLA -UPENN -GWU / Georgetown -U. Chicago -Arizona -University of Texas - Austin -SOAS in London -Penn State
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