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Does anyone know if those who've been accepted were contacted already? The results page is looking pretty sparse, so I'm going to assume no? :|

Yep. Just got mine via email.

Might it be possible that they plan to make their fellowship decisions after meeting their perspectives at the welcome event? Sounds like you were pretty clear in your email. Maybe this is why you're still getting a vague answer.

Congrats to all JHU folks, if I missed anyone

Sorry, not sure if you were asking me, but I'll answer. I received a personal email from an administrator at MAAS. I've since exchanged a few emails with people in admissions at Georgetown because I was confused about the status of my acceptance. I was told that, yes, they offer a very small number of people full funding (2 people per subdiscipline) and that I was not on that list. I didn't realize that I might have been put on a waitlist for funding, so I have no idea what my placement is on that list. Still, I wouldn't want to wait until April 15th to let my other programs know if I'm coming. Bad form! Basically, I applied to both the PhD in Comp Gov and the joint MA/PhD (see my post above). In order to be accepted to the joint, you have to be accepted to both programs separately, and I was accepted into the MA program. They said that I should be hearing back shortly about whether I was accepted to the PhD or not - but regardless - I would not be receiving funding for the PhD should I be admitted.

Are there people out there who actually accept offers to go through an entire PhD program with no funding? I don't get it.

Have you checked grad placement for either of these institutions? Not having investigated Austin's, and if it's between these two schools, my vote would be for Brown. They have an excellent package, and guaranteed summer $$ if you're fully funded.

I would say this is true in some cases, but I know that one of the students who was admitted to the top dept. that I work in was granted admission because his grandfather and father were very well-known in the field, so they assumed that this student "knew how to move." Pretty gross, huh? Sometimes it's not always about who deserves to get in and who works the hardest. Also, my scores and record aren't much different from most people applying to decent programs, but I believe I got into the ones that I did because I took a personal interest in the people I wanted to work with. When I didn't get called for an interview, I called myself and made appointments with them, or I saw them during their office hours. I read their work and prepared questions before meeting them, etc. I don't want to downplay all the hard work that I put into my academic career thus far, because I did work hard, but sometimes finding ways to differentiate yourself from the 300 other applicants can be just as important.

I would say this is true in some cases, but I know that one of the students who was admitted to the top dept. that I work in was granted admission because his grandfather and father were very well-known in the field, so they assumed that this student "knew how to move." Pretty gross, huh? Sometimes it's not always about who deserves to get in and who works the hardest. Also, my scores and record aren't much different from most people applying to decent programs, but I believe I got into the ones that I did because I took a personal interest in the people I wanted to work with. When I didn't get called for an interview, I called myself and made appointments with them, or I saw them during their office hours. I read their work and prepared questions before meeting them, etc. I don't want to downplay all the hard work that I put into my academic career thus far, because I did work hard, but sometimes finding ways to differentiate yourself from the 300 other applicants can be just as important.

I received an email notification at the beginning of last week from an administrator at CUNY saying I was waitlisted. My impression was that decisions had already been made, but it wouldn't hurt to call or send an email at this point.

This was posted in another thread. It's a link to a peer-response ranking for IR, published in Foreign Policy magazine. It doesn't say anything specific about SAIS, but ranks JHU pretty high. I think #2 in the US and #1 in Canada for a terminal masters in IR. I know you're just asking about the PhD, but this might speak to something for you. http://www.wm.edu/irtheoryandpractice/t ... t06-07.pdf

Oh wow. thanks for this.

Accepted to the MA in Arab Studies with no funding. I hate to have to give a flat out rejection, but I can't afford to pay for a Masters. I applied to the joint MA/PhD in Arab Studies and Comparative, and also the regular PhD in Comparative. Do you think this mean I probably didn't get into the PhD program? Guess I'll send an email to the dept... :?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0VJLrs2z8

I love The Wire!!! Good questions I heard the Yabba Pot is supposed to be good for vegan/vegetarian food. So is Connolly going to be your main adviser? I perused the main grad website and it looks like summer funding is available (??), but not sure how much of it and how hard it is to get it. We shall see....

Hi Noodlez...about to embark on a very theory-heavy IR program there, but my impression was that the department was fairly theory-heavy in all sub-disciplines? Mind if I ask what kind of questions you asked Connolly about the deparment? Any ideas what their position is on summer funding? Hi Silenco - my letter didn't say anything about the orientation either. I saw something about a (mandatory?) university wide orientation in late August for all incoming grads on the JHU website.

Hi Noodlez...about to embark on a very theory-heavy IR program there, but my impression was that the department was fairly theory-heavy in all sub-disciplines? Mind if I ask what kind of questions you asked Connolly about the deparment? Any ideas what their position is on summer funding?

Congrats! I got a call from Brown too today University faculty must feel like Santa Claus making these phone calls.

I actually contacted Hazbun a while ago, and set up a meeting with him right after I applied to discuss his work and my application, so I've already been to the campus and seen the department (sort of). I'm thinking, if I end up going there, that I'll just go to those orientations in late August.

Yup. The fun part is finding all of that out For me, Hazbun, Marlin-Bennett and Grovogui in IR.

I just got a call from the Director of Grad Studies literally an hour ago - I GOT IN!!!

I JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO BROWN!!!! I can't believe it! Two days ago I thought I was going to be stuck in my black hole office job for the rest of my life, and now I have to choose between JHU and Brown!!!!!!!!

More than likely. That's so awesome! Who do you think you'll be working with there?

To JHU??? CONGRATS!!!

I think it depends on who is reading your application and where you're applying. I do believe, however, that the better the school is, the less your chances are of getting in without decent scores. I imagine the further away from the Ivies you get, the more room you have to razzle dazzle people with other pluses, like research/language/publication experience. I work in the department of a top anthropology program, and scores are pretty important here. If you had 500s across the board on the GRE, you probably wouldn't get in - even with an interesting project - because they receive almost 400 applications per year and out of that number there are quite a few people with good projects AND high scores to choose from. Totally stupid, ridiculous, dumb, and unfair, but true. At the same time, there have been people who have squeezed in with less than stellar scores, but only because they took the time to establish a relationship with one of the professors here, and that person really pushed for the applicant. I have a decent GPA (3.75 overall, 3.84 major) but my first GRE scores were horrible (630Q was OK, but 460V looked like I couldn't speak English!!). I was advised to take it again, I did, and did much better the second time around (730Q, 630V and 5.0AW). I know some people say that taking it twice is the kiss of death, but I don't think that's true at all. I would advise anyone with a bad score who thinks they can do better to retake the test.

Cool. Good luck!!! I know that the IR sub-committee has met already, but not sure about the others. I just got my notice, so there is still hope