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Princeton is all over. I repeat: over. Official rejection email from the Dean of A&S.
Sorry to those who were holding their breath. Exhale. Onwards and Upwards...!
Yep. Just got mine via email.
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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.
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Congrats to all JHU folks, if I missed anyone
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totally agree that it may take a while, but i also suspect most, if not all, the people who were offered funding at g-town have offers at really top places, such as harvard and stanford. they might still want to visit, but in some cases, they might not. you got an offer from g-town, right? was it a personal email or a mass email? i've heard they've only contacted 10-12 people so far, and i suspect the majority of those will turn down the offers at some point. hence, the funding waves.
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.
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Just got a letter telling me I am in at Boston University... but no funding
Are there people out there who actually accept offers to go through an entire PhD program with no funding? I don't get it.
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Thanks for your thoughts. As far as my options, at this point I am in at Brown and UT Austin. I am an American politics focus, with an emphasis on racial politics. It seems that both schools have really great programs in this regard. I am particularly interested in African American and Latin American political behavior and participation.
I am really torn at this point, because as you stated Brown offers a great living situation. Really close to Boston and NYC without the ridiculous rent. I was considering the exchange program that they have with JHU, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, etc. It seems like even if the program wasn't able to offer me EVERYTHING, I would have other programs to borrow from. And of course, at the end of the day, Brown IS an Ivy. and it is fully funded, which I am sure is not the case at UT Austin (still haven't received my funding package yet)
UT Austin is higher "ranked" but they aren't able to offer other campuses to compensate for their program weaknesses, which I think is an important aspect of a program. Also, perhaps I am a bit biased because I went private for undergrad, but I think that funding opportunities are far more abundant in the private school world....
These are just my impressions, I am really hoping to get feedback from others, what do you all think?
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.
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I agree with you, general rankings are only good for telling you that a school is ranked to low to choose over another school. Also, I agree that placement rankings (I only know of 1) are probably the only rankings anybody should consider. The other rankings are too subjective and broad, telling you nothing about how well the school competes on the academic job market. Some schools don't break down their placements, and knowing how they've competed in general against other schools helps. Also, it's odd, but amazingly, at around 15 I noticed a significant drop off in the placement records at schools a while back on the Chingos rankings, so your point is definently valid. But, I don't think that it means that students at schools lower than 15 won't be placed anywhere (or anywhere attractive), I just think they have to prove that they are capable of high level research. Obviously the students at the top schools are more likely to be the top students in the nation, and will therefore find the best placements because there is a fair presumption in their favor. Those of us not going to the top schools aren't as likely to find a great academic post afterwards, but there still is a good possibility of finding an acceptable tt track job.
I really hope that people reading this aren't offended, because I'm one of the people who won't be going to one of the top 15 schools. But, what canadianpolisci is saying is true to a certain extent, and we just have to deal with it. I thought about it this weekend, and having spent the last 7 years in school (undergrad and law school) not studying at all, not studying for the GRE, and not doing any independant research, what gives me the balls to say I deserve to be in a top school or that I should have an equal opportunity to to be placed. Some of us are smart enough, some of us aren't. Some of us have worked hard enough, some of us haven't. But most of us who didn't get in at a top school (no matter how brilliant we may be) didn't deserve to get in at the top schools for some reason, and don't deserve to have an equal opportunity at landing the top jobs. So yes, if you're not at a top 15 school you probably shouldn't be, and if you don't go to a top 15 school, then you're going to have to actually do somethig to prove that you deserve that tt position over the students that did go to those schools.
I don't place much weight on the U.S. News rankings because I'm assuming most of the people that have to fill out the surveys spend under 5 minutes thinking about it or hand them off to their assistant (if they are spending time on it, I would believe they are doing it strategically to make sure they are ranked higher than competing schools).
Anyways, when I posted the rankings and the thing my friend made I should have probably noted that I think it's all b.s., but I figured some people might like to use them.
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.
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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.
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Anyone got word from CUNY poli sci? - my last shot, my last one of three tried.
Dumped in this crapshoot by U of AZ poli sci and U of Md soc. Stats: 3.84 John Jay psych degree, 3.6 temple for soc, about 20 credits undergrad poli sci and 9 credits grad. GRE: Q- 560 (38%), V- 600 84%, A/W 6.0 / (think my math screwed me, along with the ivy and published competition?),but I have more than 20 years of teaching experience as psych/soc teacher, including 4 yrs f.t. at HBCU, a few years research exp., several presentations but no publications.
CUNY takes about one of three but I wonder if I have a shot or if anyone knows how intense the competition is for this program?
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.
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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
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Oh wow. thanks for this.
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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... :?:
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Yeah, when I said "a lot of cooperation among subfields," that was just a polite way of saying everyone bows down to theory there. Well, not really, I meant what I said. But yeah, I probably wouldn't have applied to the program if it wasn't so theory-grounded throughout subfields as it seems to be. I think that is really cool. As long as I don't have to take a quantitative methods class.
My questions to Connolly:
How vegan friendly is Baltimore? He said I'd be fine, gave an example or two.
I made a joke about only knowing the city from John Waters and The Wire, and he went to great lengths to assure me that while The Wire captures life in one part of the city, on the whole, and especially around campus, things are safe and cool.
How does adviser and committee selection go down? You're assigned an adviser at first, but later can pick another one. With that person, you pick two more readers for your dissertation, then three more are selected by the Graduate Dean at the direction of the department. Your dissertation (at least for Connolly) is "a book in the making."
Opportunities to study at other schools or abroad? Other schools are generally "not encouraged," but going overseas for the summer, for language work, etc. is.
Visitors? Brian Massumi was just there for anthropology, and theory students had a few opportunities to meet with him in smaller groups (i.e. over dinner), and that is pretty typical.
I didn't ask about summer funding. Maybe that's the form their "encouragement" of summer work abroad takes? We can hope, right?
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.... -
Pretty schizophrenic in my interests, but generally, globalization and theories of democracy and rights (I agree - Grovogui DOES sound cool)....the description of the program he (Connolly) gave was really exciting, and he quickly answered the (many) questions I had for him....Sounds like there is a lot of cooperation among the subfields, which is cool, and I appreciate you folks anyway, but I'm curious... any more theory-types out there?
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?
Oh, I don't think my letter says anything about orientation. But, I may go visit soon since they will reimburse my travel expenses.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.
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Pretty schizophrenic in my interests, but generally, globalization and theories of democracy and rights (I agree - Grovogui DOES sound cool)....the description of the program he (Connolly) gave was really exciting, and he quickly answered the (many) questions I had for him....Sounds like there is a lot of cooperation among the subfields, which is cool, and I appreciate you folks anyway, but I'm curious... any more theory-types out there?
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?
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Out @ Stony Brook, but in @ Brown!!!!! My number one choice!!!!!! I am ELATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Congrats! I got a call from Brown too today
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Ooh. Grovogui's work sounds cool. Don't know the others. Are you going to visit?
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.
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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!!!
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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!!!!!!!!
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More than likely. That's so awesome! Who do you think you'll be working with there?
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To JHU??? CONGRATS!!!
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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.
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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
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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? :|