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hahah dun say it !!!! I WANT IT TOMORROW.

congratulations to those admitted again. I sincerely hope that first round people will get their results tomorrow. Angie, I am sure the scholarship thing is just technical problem. No matter what news tomorrow brings, once again THANK YOU very much for every single one of you who has accompanied me all these 4 months. Best of Luck. Mucha suerte Todas y Todos.

Wether we are admitted or not, we, the first-round-people should open a business teaching and guiding perspective students on the whole IHEID application process. Cuz we have been through the freaking whole period/process over the last four months. I applied on the 9th of Nov, 2013. Today is 12th Mar, 2014. We can provide consoling service to ease the anxiety during waiting period, technical support on personal statement and scholarship statement writing and communicating with IHEID (or with Paola). Who wants to invest in my new business?

ALL THE BEST !!!!!!!!! MINE IS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. NTH HAS CHANGED

Congratulations to all who have received admission. First-deadline-people !!!!!Lets pray that IHEID had not forgotten us !!!!!

GOod morning mych. I have not heard anything back from IHEID. I really want to know if they have sent out any rejections. Any accepted applicants applied by the first deadline?????? With regard to the scholarship of Hertie, I did not receive not even 25% of tuition wavier !!!! But it was strange cuz I thought the named scholarships were different from the schools tuition wavier scholarship. But it turned out they are the same. I did not write any article for applying the named scholarships. But the decision email said, the comittee had considered all Hertie afliliated scholarships and decided not to offer me any scholarship. As all named scholarships offer 100% tuition waiver, I thought I would be considered for the school own tuition wavier which was a certain percentage of tuition reduction. However, it was not the case. Good luck

Very good Katrun. I have found a wine mate finally. We can hit some wineries together in France.

hahahah why you guys like to use NADA? Is it popular in the States right now? But I have to admit that it is one of the most used words in my daily life in Buenos Aires. and also La Puta que te parió. Some reflections after a long week of waiting. First, i have completely lost my hope for admission. Just send me a rejection at 9am Monday, please. Help me end my ordeal. Second, it seems that, according to this thread, those got accepted so far applied by the second deadline. So I have two speculations. Especulación Uno : Very very few people were accepted at the first deadline. Por qué? : According to the OFFICIAL sources, 30 people were admitted at the first round. So by very simple mathematics this round 30 luck stars would receive admission between 1-15 March. (Of course, I believe they would give out more than 60 offers as some students would reject their offers) . But after the first deadline, no admitted condidate presented himself in this thread. However, now more than 3 MDev admitted students shared their good news here. So I think there were admissions during the first round but only very few . Especulación Dos : I am not very optimistic with my situation. Having read the acceptance letter, I recalled our postponment letter which said The postponement of decisions allows the Institute to optimise the admission process and admit with certainty the right number of students whose profile is best suited to our requirements of excellence.. It implied that we are not excellent enough. I hate to say it though. As at this stage, according to my very limited information, it seems that no postponed student has gotten an offer so far. It might not be a good sign. Anyway. GOOD LUCK

Are you sure? If I am not mistaken, a MDev candidate in this thread seemed to be offered a scholarship and he received the acceptance letter a few days back.

oooooooooooo no news?

I am going to send an email to IHEID to withdraw my application. Lets go to Sciences Po. I found an interesting course today. http://formation.sciences-po.fr/en/enseignement/2012/deco/1260a DECO 1260A - Elective The World of wine in France Pre-requisite : A genuine interest in the wine industry, in France and worldwide. Capacity to interview and interact with wine professionals in particular at the Salon des Vignerons Indépendants, the bi-annual wine fair in Paris. Course Description The course will cover some of the history of wine in France and the differences between wine growing in Europe, and the rest of the world. Is the Old World, New World debate justifiable and if so why? What can be learned from European wine practices? From other wine producing areas in the world? How wine is made, and what are the rules and regulations pertaining to it? A visit to the Salon des Vignerons Indépendants will be an opportunity to interview wine growers from all over France and information gathering for your term paper. Teachers BRICK-STOCK, Carol (Lectrice) Pedagogical format In-class debate, oral presentation, wine tasting and guest speakers. One long written paper at the end of term. Course validation Continuous Assessment: 1- an oral presentation of ten minutes 2- participation in class and questions to guest speakers 3 - final term paper of 3,500 words on a subject approved in advance. This may be an extension of your oral presentation. Required reading -A reader will be provided for the class. -"The Art and Science of Wine" Halliday and Johnson. Various articles from the press on recent news pertaining to oenology.

Lets hope for the best tomorrow my dear comrades. One question. Is the class size (Development Studies) in Sciences Po larger than that of IHEID?

I do not want to play this waiting game anymore.........................

Thank you guys. My trip was great. It may piss off the French and Spanish. But seriously, Mendoza is the capital of Wine in the world. The whole wine thing is crazy in Mendoza. In every single shop, shoes, clothes, electronic products shops etc , they always have some bottles of wine in the display window. The craziest thing is in McDonald´s, for a combo meal, you will have French fries, a burger and a small bottle of wine !!!!! In this trip I met a French guy who is doing a world-wide wine tour. He told me that Sciecnes Po Paris would be the best place for wine-tasting in France. Because the wineries know that SciencesPo students will be influencial or make a lot of money in the future, they always give out a lot of good wines and most important free to the wine tasting clubs in Sciences Po Paris. So now SciencesPo has become my first choice !!!!!!!

Hey everyone. First of all, I want to congratulate those who got accepted by IHEID ! Second of all, I got the admission result from ScienecsPo. POSITIVE. Scholarship pending. Third of all, dear our most beloved and hated IHEID, I want to know the result NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys. All the best. It is time for me to leave for Mendoza. There is a long holiday till Tuesday in Argentina. So I will be spending it, indulging in wines and steak. And face the cruel (may be blissful) news coming to me next week. If I am lucky enough to be future classmates with any of you, I will bring you some Argentine wines . Have a nice weekend ! Hermano sy Hermanas

Great. I got mine one month ago and still waiting for the scholarships. They said they would TRY to notify selected candidates tomorrow.Good luck. HERTIE is also one of my top choices.

Thanks. I believe that we are going to meet up in Geneva instead of Paris Technically, it is not the official admissible mail that told me about the notification date. I sent them an email asking the updates of my application and they told me results would be out in early March. Best of Luck !!!

I submitted my application for sciences po on 9 Jan, received the admissible mail on 12 Feb. In the admissible mail they said they would notify me in early march. So I still have to wait for one more week for the final decision.

Alchyna How come you have forgotten the constant complaint that we have had over the last few months. Their early admission round !!!!!!

https://emea58402208.adobeconnect.com/_a843983480/p4kvkys818f/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal An online session provided by IHEID. At the second part of the discussion, they mentioned our concerns about the teaching quality, IHEID´s reputation, job perspective etc.

ZakV, by the way, i also applied to Oxford, Latin American Studies. Do you know the notification date? They say late march onwards. But it seems that if you call the department, you can get the result early. As the applicants of Latin Americam Studies are quite few, maybe they dun need that much time for the selection process. As the Graduate Cafe Result Search showed, people from this programme usually called the department early march and the result was already out. Any thoughts???????

I agree that one needs passion. One needs a tremendous amount of passion in order to withstand the harsh and potentially dangerous environment of your future work place in marginalized areas, unless you want to sit in an office in the middle of Geneva. But passion won´t bring you any skills. Having experience in the field does. When I talk to people with lots of experience in the field, like my boss or that senior manager of a NGO, without exception, all of them highly recommend that one have at least one to two years of volunteering, internship or actually living in the field, be it a favela in Brazil or an African village, depending on your interest, before a Master in Development Studies, or relevant disciplines.

I have an idea. I think we should summarize all our information here and publish a book called Picking the Perfect School for Development Studies. By then we would have at least one publication. Going back to the discussion about job perspective. I have some different experience. i met a LSE Chevening Scholar guy. After his Master in Development Studies, he got a job in the Red Cross. Another guy who did his master at Sussex became a senior manager at a large international NGO. My current boss got a PhD in Political Sciecne from a prestigious Latin American university, but in terms of international prestige, his school is far from, not even on par with Science Po Paris, let alone LSE or Harvard. But he worked for the Interamerican development bank and trained the ministers of Social development from the whole Latin America. The other day he just had a meeting with an ex-minister of social development from an important Latin American country at our office. He is also a consultant for UNCIEF, CEPAL and other international organzitions on social policies and development issues. At the end of the day, it all depends on the person. The school could only help you get your first job. Another reflection about the issue is the skills the students can provide. The curriculum of Development Studies schools from different schools do not differ very much. After the master, the students from LSE or Sciences Po or other US schools basically have more or less the same knowledge. The courses might be different. But most courses teach hard facts. If you can get into all those elites schools, you also have the ability to learn all these hard facts on your own. So now the question is how can you stand out from the group by offering different skills, the skills that other Development Studies graduates do not have. There are many skills. I just list out two important skills here which can differentiate yourself from the others. Language (and knowledge in certain regions) and an expertise in certain area. About the language and region factor, I would like to explain it with Latin America in which I have more knowledge. Imagine, a LSE DS graduate who has no previous knowledge in the region or in spanish (portuguese) , a graduate from a prestigious Latin American university who grew up in the region, speak the language, know the poverty problem in the region and volunteered in different poverty setting. Now the WB or Interamerican Development Bank, or CEPAL or UNICEF hires a project manager and policy analyst to work in Latin America, who would get the job???? If you specialize in, say social policies, or rural development urban habitat, among others, you will also have a higher chance of getting employed. By specialize, i mean at least a few years in the field. Having done two courses in your master does not count. Not just big IOs and NGOs, local development agencies and NGOs also want to hire specialists or very all-rounded generalists. For example, my think tank is hiring a specialist in health policy. They are asking for a minimum of 5 years of experience with a master degree. It is just a local think tank. IOs and big NGOS, of course they will ask for more. The problem with European schools is IN GENERAL, students go straight to Master right after undergraduate. They may have some internship experience. But it is far from enough. This may explain why students from American universities have a better job perspective. Because in general, they are older, more mature and have more work experience than their European counterparts. My opinion is if you can get in the elite schools that we have been talking in this thread, first congratulations, and second, you should develop some skills which can differentiate yourself to the rest. The school name itself cannot help you that much.

It is true in many large organizations. It is all about politics. I once talked to a senior manager of a large international NGO in Hong Kong. He told me the same thing. You spend way more time on politics and red tape than really doing real things. But sadly, it seems that politics is everywhere. I took part in an investigation project about the life of teenagers in urban slums, organized by a large regional NGO (with a lot of influence) and UNICEF. We compiled the information and the report was ready. But we could not publish it because the general elections were approaching. If we released the report, the opposition would use this to attack the government which indeed happened a few years ago. The government would then cut or make the cooperation with the NGO more difficult. So we had no choice but to release the report one month after the general elections. You will have more liberty working for small and very local NGOs. Your projects and iniciatives are usually more innovative and can respond to the needs of the people correctly and promptly. But your biggest problem is resources. During my volunteer experience in Peru, i had all the autonomy to do what I wanted to do. But obtaining enough resources was hard. It depends on what you want to achieve and do.