curufinwe

Though, isn't it weird that Chingos paper did not even include NYU and Brown in the rankings?

seconded

Wow, fantastic. You might ace your applicaitons actually

True, for Polisci, it is a bit different, at least compared to engineers etc... I would suggest you cram for a month, not spread it to a long period of time. As time passes, you will realize it is hard to keep in mind the words you alreayd memorized in the beginning. I studied for a month, an hour or two every day. Memorized 900-1000 words. Got 690 for verbal. As long as you pass the 600 threshold, you will be fine, which is easily doable. For maths, I have no idea how one needs to study We had a good maths education and questions were too easy for people who had the same education (in Turkey).

lol. All I did was to say "we do not discuss GRE here, there is a subforum dedicated entirely to GRE". I cannot comprehend as to why I get such a reaction. In fact, admins often move such discussions to related forums. Do they get the same reaction as well?

there is detailed discussion on these issues in the GRE forum. Political Science forum is not the place for it.

I got a friend that applied to Northwestern for comparative, and when he did not get an acceptance e-mail, he called and learned he is rejected. So I'm guessing its not field by field, all that did not get an e-mail is most probably rejected.

I was really looking forward to hear from Northwestern since it was the only program I thought I would get into, was a good fit, and would give me a proper career. But when the acceptances of Northwestern poured in, I did not get an e-mail, which is basically a rejection... So my excitement turned into a dull "uh now what?"

I've always been curious about this. People often apply to a range of schools in terms of ranking and then among the "accepted"s, they choose where they wanna go. So it is unlikely that a school would have all the students they accept to be attending to that program. How do they arrange funding for that? Do they count on historical data? Would they end up with less students than they could afford if they don't have a waitlist? Then again, according to last year's results, I did not see many waitlisted people. So I'm not sure how common that is. What do you guys know about this issue?

Since you guys got the acceptance at the same time, it probably is a mass mail to all accepted. I'm not in, yay

congratz. (jealous? maybe )

heartbeat 200 per minute... pick me northwestern please!

almost nothing today

I know that sometimes the adcomm would not pick people that would 'seem' like a good fit. The reason is, we check the websites and see what in general professors study and we try to make sense of it. But sometimes professors go "nah, I don't wanna study this specific thing with this student in 5 years". So I heard it is good to actually e-mail those professors prior to applying and see if they would be interested in that certain topic.

ditto, crimsonblue... cpaige will get into a top ten. I feel it.

I hope so. The coordinator said they would be out this week. Either today or tomorrow.

Make sure it is not from Nigeria

A friend of mine received an email from Penn State, and they asked for a time slot that they could call during. So she gave a certain time slot, and when she received the call, turns out it was an acceptance call So I'm guessing thats the practice with international students.

I applied to Comparative in Empire last year and got accepted. though the scholarship I expected from this one institution didnt work out so I couldnt enroll. But I know tons of people who barely fulfill the minimum requirements and got in. Getting in is easy, fidning the scholarship is the real tough part since they offer almost nothing.

Right??? I am tired of waiting really. Probably they will announce it on Friday. Just a hunch

Similar to last year's trend I guess. End of February's 3rd week.

I applied for PhD in Polisci, so our deadline was February 1. I assume they'd start letting us know by mid-March.

I actually wanted to update my file with something extra that came up this monday... So I sent that to her to add it to my file on monday and she was so nice, she added it even though the committee was to start reviewing files the next day. I said "thanks a lot, I am really excited " and she told me that.

I just heard from Meagan Mulligan, the grad coordinator for polisci in UT Austin, that decisions will be made sometime this week and results will be out! the horror

I'd rather do it the American way... go to a lawyer, see if we got a case and sue the cra* out of them!