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Anyone get their housing assignment for those living on campus?

ill be going to cornell in the fall too!!! hopefully i can meet some of yall.

Is anyone going to the CIPA open house this Friday? I won't be able to attend and I was wondering if somebody would be willing to post their feedback on it.

yep! I got mine today...........................Just kidding.

um if youre planning on applying for fall 2010.....sorry to tell you but the deadline for most top 10 programs already passed.

hmm I havent even received my hard copy admission letter. I just received an e-mail with my fellowship information.

any one receive their welcome packet?

Does anyone here attend CIPA? I was recently accepted there and received a 24k fellowship. I understand that Cornell's public policy program isn't ranked as high as SAIS, SIPA, and Gtown but is there really that much of a difference? Any thoughts and feedback on CIPA would greatly be appreciated.

most cornell mpa students get a fellowship 24k-26k

my stats are some what similar. Although my GPA is a 3.7 my GRE was 20 points lower than yours. I'm applying for fall 2010 but I got into Cornell's MPA program already since they have rolling admissions, got a nice fellowship too. I'm sure you will do fine.

Congrats Meg!!! I also got deffered to the Jan 15. application pile.

sure, my gpa is a 3.7 and im still in undergrad work experience: interning for a major police department in a human trafficking unit 3 months helping in a city council campaign 3 months helping for Obama's campaign president for 2 organizations with 60+ members nothing spectacular but my recommenders knew me really well and my SOP was pretty solid hope this helps, and good luck

The 450 was my verbal score and I haven't heard anything about money

4 weeks ago. They have rolling admissions

just got an acceptance letter from Cornell's public policy school!! woot. My GRE is a 450/670..that just shows you that anyone can do it!! now to wait for the others in march, good luck everyone.

People with 3.5+ gpas 1400 combined GREs and significant work experience who ask if they're competitive or not are pissing me off... YES you're competitive. I should be the one worrying about getting in with my 1170 gre score ugghhhhh!!!

I was wondering if admissions committees call or message recommenders for further information. I feel that one of my recommenders can articulate and recommend me better in person than paper. But with the mass amounts of applications they probably wont have time for individually contacting recommenders would they?

is it just me or have the number of posts and topics decreased a lot compared to this time last year?

Hello, I was wondering if any body would be kind enough to edit my SOP. Its still in its 2nd or 3rd draft but any feedback from another source would greatly help! Please, PM me if you want to edit it for me, I'm a little hesitant on just posting it on the forum. thanks!

Ive taken the GRE 3 times already. Studied excessively each time and memorized about 900+ words. I just cant get my verbal score over 500 for some reason. My LORs should be pretty solid and my SOP has been edited by multiple professors so I feel that its pretty good. Im really interested in security studies and georgetown's ssp is my ideal school but its quite a reach. I have a lot of experience abroad. I have been to Japan over 7 times, staying for about a month each time. I am pretty fluent in Japanese as well.

I am an average student. I dont have a super high GRE score or awesome work experience. But I still want to get a MA in IR. That being said, what are some programs that I should be looking at that I have a chance to be accepted in? Everyone talks about Harvard and Princeton which I have no chance at and I was wanting to know some good schools that are less competitive to get in to. My stats are: 3.7 GPA in criminal justice at a state school 470 v 670 q 8 month internship with a big city police department under the human trafficking unit experience in 2 campaigns Teachers assistant for a japanese elementary school during the weekends Lots of extracurriculars including president for an honor society. once again, I don't think I'm competitive enough to be applying to the top schools, which schools should I be looking at that I have a chance in?