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Well, yea. I saw that average time to completion issue as well. It's less than encouraging, but I resolve to be on the sooner end of that distribution. Depends a lot on how long the dissertation drags on, and I hope by that point I can get my butt in gear and not make it last too long.
I also posted this to someone via PM so I figured I'd share it with all of you as well:
Before I saw this map, I would have preferred UChicago to Northwestern.
Apart from this map, what do you think how they compare for theory?
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I agree that it's rather opaque. I have only received a call, no e-mail so far - looks like they are notifying by old-school mail and it is up to the subfield coordinators (?) to call or not call people. At least I got all the information about funding and visiting days.
So did you get called by POI or subfield coordinator?
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Got a phone call: "congratulations, you've won a cruise" ughhhhhhh
Congratulations from me as well!
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Congrats!!! Subfield?
Thanks! Comparative.
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Every MIT admit has been contacted by phone, or were there any email notifications?
Did someone already got a Boston University notification as well?
I got BU.
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Were all admitted international students called by Stanford too?
There's all reason for hope. If they called US numbers at 1am GMT, they would have to wait to the next morning to call Europeans, for example.
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I've been wondering about that. Consensus seems to be either Columbia or California (for Berkeley), although apparently it used to stand for Chicago, which has experienced a huge drop in the last 20 yers or so.
These also used to be known as CCCP.
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About the rank issue:
I'm quite worried about carrer prospects after the PhD. What are the things that matter for this?
-How well they teach you what you want to learn.
-How well they teach you what to want to learn - in order to be successful on the job market.
-Opportunities to network (that includes research centers, research assistanceships, travel money etc).
-Training\experience in teaching, programming, and other transferable skills.
Isn't everything else secondary with respect to making this thing a career? And do rankings reflect how well programs offer these things?
My guess is that name recognition only matters if you leave the academic discipline.
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Who will be making dreams come true this Valentine's Day?
Me.
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Columbia is open today, according to their website! They could thus be releasing decisions today???
We're thinking of them, they're thinking of us:
http://chrisblattman.com/2014/02/11/this-blog-has-been-hit-by-negative-time-shocks/
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a commiserating pat on the back to all who got bad news...
We should team up: the perpetual rejects.
The challenge is to leave the team last.
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Seems like MIT need extra time this year. On their website's FAQ, it used to say decisions by Feb 15th. Now it says:
"Are applications reviewed as they are received?
Applications are not reviewed until after the December 15th deadline. Admission decisions will be made in late February."
and below that the old version:
"When will I receive a decision from Political Science at MIT?
Decisions will be made in early February."
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Starting the day with some wishful thinking:
Today, I am going to get admitted by my top choice.
- o.j. and IRTheoryNerd
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Has anyone started withdrawing applications because they've received preferred places?
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My fingers are crossed that we'll hear from the University of Michigan before Friday. And a second wave of acceptances from Chicago, Duke, or NYU would make a lot of people happy.
What makes you think that these places do more than one wave? None of them have in the past, have they?
It would indeed make a few people happy, though.
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So, I just got an external, sizable scholarship. Who do I contact at the different schools to tell them about it?
Congrats.
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U can go to the results page and search MIT political science and skim through the past few years.
The acceptances were notified via phone mostly
Right, I thought you meant this year.
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Definitely a troll....
plus MIT has not emailed their applicants (at least for acceptances)
How do you know this?
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^ Funded. He says placements are good (couple of R1's this year). I'm nervous though. Is Georgetown a decent program? I want to do security stuff.
Oi, what's your user name about?
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Political(Science)Rules, who does the Middle East at NYU? I couldn't find any active faculty focusing on the region.
When the U.S. bias was being discussed, I think people were talking about the posts on the results page.
Indeed, people were. More interesting is the front-loading of positive results, though. Later on in the process, much more of that page will look red all over. It's so nice and green now.
If only it could stay that way.
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Definitely an acceptance bias. US applicant bias I'm not sure about, but it is possible. Definitely a bias towards higher-ranked school, as is evidenced on the forum as well, I would say.
I would say that people that post there tend to be more invested in the process than the average PhD applicant, which can at least partly explain the ranking bias.
There's a strong US school bias, Canadian and/or British programs are hardly mentioned.
Anyone willing to test for biases using some of the real numbers available?
You're right, clearly a bias towards the keenest people here. That explains why there are quite a few second-cyclists.
I would have thought there are more Americans because Internationals are likelier to have eggs in other baskets, too.
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Btw, what sort of biases do you guys think are in the results postings?
I think an acceptance bias, but also a US applicant bias are likely. Perhaps also a bias towards higher ranked schools at least with respect to rejections? -
Two years ago, I started off my cycle (MA admissions) with three rejections, one to a pretty low-ranked school (in comparison). I lost heart, then got accepted to my three top choice(s) (including the school that was consistently ranked either 1 or 2 in my field), and waitlisted and then accepted to Yale. I know it sucks, but sometimes it goes like this!
thanks for the pep talk. 'tis the story I am hoping for.
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This forum is clearly full of highly talented and highly motivated political scientists. May many of you become great scholars! I thought I'd take the opportunity and ask:
What do you find the most exciting Political Science research?
Any books or articles in particular that made you want to become a researcher yourself?
Any pieces of work every future political science scholar should have read?
Anything particularly novel and innovative?
It would be great if many of you would share your favorites - as this forum clearly is a source of information and motivation to many.