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Why don't you call him back, listen to what he has to say about the program and wait until you get your official letter. Then you can email the department back, declining your offer. He won't be asking for a decision over the phone anyway, just probably a formality to offer you admission, give you the opportunity to ask questions, plug his program, etc.

Alas I have "run out of my positive votes quota for the day". I think that's the problem with all these boards! Positivity should be unlimited .

Weird, when I go to the site they're gone!

PSJR = Political Science Job Rumours Less about job rumours and more about snark.

It looks like the entire prospective grad students subforum has been deleted and Rossiya and APGradApplicants' threads were removed. Probably for the best because it was getting ugly.

I completely agree with this and what readeatsleep said. I will end up taking the Toronto offer over Oxford, it will just be hard to follow my head . I think I would also take the UW offer over Yale as well...

I'm going to be in a similar situation if I'm accepted to Oxford (was previously so it's possible I will be again). I have a fully funded offer from U of T which is a good school. However, I have always dreamed of going to Oxford and it is more highly ranked - but I'd have to pay for it. I feel like Toronto is the right choice, but my heart says Oxford. I'd imagine for Rossiya it's similar - the dream of going to an Ivy, the hope that that would help with getting into an Ivy PhD program afterwards, etc.

Congrats to everyone who is done with their results - hopefully everyone has some good offers/options . I just wish that were my situation - still waiting for 4 responses!!

I found this on polisci job rumours. It's interesting...of course, it doesn't take into account all the people who didn't land TT positions or those who were awarded tenure - just those who are currently in assistant professorships. From the other site... Apologies if this has been gone over before. I stumbled across a dataset which purports to have counts of articles published by each assistant professor in U.S. political science departments, plus a host of control variables. The date range is a bit hazy, but I think it covers about 1993 through 2006. Being a big nerd, the first thing I did was run a negative binomial regression on the number of articles published by each scholar. IV's included number of years with PhD, a series of dummies indicating subfield, a gender dummy, and two dummy variables concerning the rank of the PhD-granting institution: one indicating that it's a top-5 school, a second indicating that it's ranked at all (both derived from US News rankings). Findings: - Time that the AP has had the PhD is positively related to # of pubs. Duh. - Female APs publish significantly fewer articles than males (about 1 less on average, which is pretty big since the mean # of pubs over the entire dataset is 2.5). - American Politics faculty have the most pubs, followed by comparative, then IR, then theory. The American-IR, & American-theory differences are statistically significant, but the American-Comparative difference is not. - Getting a PhD from a ranked school is worth about 2/3 of a publication over getting one from an unranked school, and the difference is significant. - There is no statistically significant difference between APs getting their PhD from a top-5 school and APs getting theirs from lower-ranked schools. In fact, the coefficient on the Top-5 dummy is negative and close to being significant (p<.08, 2-tailed). Results are robust to different operationalizations of the DV: adjusting for co-authorship; pubs/year; top-3 pubs only, etc. I make no claims about the accuracy of the data -- in fact, I'm in there and it missed one of my own publications. But I guess it's better than no data at all. If you want to play with the data yourself, they're here: politicaldata.org/assistingprof/assistingpolitics_Feb_2007_update.xls

Oops just realized I referred to APGradApplicant as 'he' throughout. Funny how you sort of assume things about people you don't know. Anyway, apologies if you're female!

APGradApplicant contacted one of the schools about when the decisions would come out and they responded. He copied and pasted the email here but then put his own comment right afterwards "have a good weekend applicants, I know I will!". The person at the school who had written him the email was here on grad cafe and thought that he was saying she had said "have a good weekend applicants, I know I will" when really it was just his own comment. It was just a misunderstanding but it got some people a little concerned...

I second Angel. That's where I lived and I absolutely loved it. I think you could get away with 125/week for a room in a shared house. Much much more for a studio though. If your budget really is 800/month just for rent, you could probably get on the edge of zones 1/2.

I was just about to press submit then panicked. I'm still waiting to hear from 4 programs, so I will post when I get those decisions .

Any news from your MA at Yale?

Therein lies the big question. I will have to decide which way I want to go. I'm interested in applied ethics and theories of justice. On one hand I have always considered myself a political theorist, but at this point my interests are more closely aligned with philosophy departments and one of my struggles this cycle has been finding politics departments that have faculty interested in the same things. My other big question at the moment is (if I get in) whether I should pay to go to Oxford or take the fully-funded Toronto PhD.

Thanks - and yeah it's for philosophy. I'm also waiting on political science. Could be a long wait .

I forgot Harvard had a waitlist...here's to hoping .

Must just be the timezone thing then.

Last year it seems results were sent over 2 days, but that could just be people delaying in posting them or the fact that the results page seems a little wonky sometimes - around 8pm it changes to the next day. I guess it's on a different time zone.

Congrats to all the Harvard admits. Although I am insanely jealous, I hope to meet you all someday at a conference here or there

Looks like you're another SuddenlyParanoid in the making. Congrats on all those acceptances

I don't know why I'm so nervous about Harvard. I doubt I'm getting in anyway. But I still can't wait to find out.

Better wait for SuddenlyParanoid to check his email and let us know

Add me to the chorus of Princeton rejects...

When I applied to UofT's MA program a couple years ago I heard in early April. It was done by email and phone. They phoned everyone individually and then sent a mass email.