[IR Programs Abroad]

If Turkey is your region of study, you might want to consider the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. It has a very good reputation, especially

in Southeast Europe. 

https://www.da-vienna.ac.at/diplomatic_academy_of_vienna

[Princeton MPP for Lawyers]

Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School offers an MPP programme specifically for people with a law degree. According to their homepage, no specific amount of work experience is required. (in contrast to the regular MPP) But apart from that, there's almost no additional information. Has anyone made some experience with this programme? 

[Yale Jackson admitted thread 2014]

@ynh2008: I sent you a private message

Congrats on your admission! Would you mind sharing your profile with me as well? (per PM) 

[The 'Am I competitive' thread - READ ME BEFORE POSTING]

If you will be in the top 5-10% of your class, you should be fine for some of the top public policy programs. Most of those applying to these programs from U.S. schools are also in the top 5% or 10% of their classes in the U.S., so you're fine there.

 

What will be important for you is getting a GRE score in a good range. Somewhere in the 160s are normally great for these programs. Upper 150s are good if the rest of your application is strong. Lower 150s and below are where you start to really need to have a stellar application to make up for the scores if you want to get into a top five or top ten program. Take your GRE and see where you fall, because that will be another big determinant for you.

 

Schools also tend to like postgraduate work experience. If you're able, try to work a year or two after graduation. As it is now, though, you have an awesome amount of internships, which I think could help make up for you not having full-time postgrad work experience.

Thank you for your valuable input! As far as I am informed, foreign students don't have to submit GRE scores for Georgetown MSFS, only the TOEFL. But for John Hopkins and Fletcher it will indeed matter.

 

[The 'Am I competitive' thread - READ ME BEFORE POSTING]

Hello everyone, 

 

I'm an Austrian law student wondering whether it is possible for me to get into a top international affairs programme in the US, namely:

Georgetown MSFS, Fletcher School MALD, John Hopkins SAIS

Undergraduate degree: 4- year Law Degree (not divided into graduate and undergraduate in Austria)
GPA: I haven't graduated yet but if everything goes as planned, I will be in among the top 5-10% of my class. I can't tell you the exact GPA though. (the Austrian grading system is a bit different) 

 

Languages: 

German
English
French

 

Work Experience and Experience abroad: 

- Studied abroad: University of Geneva, got a "Certificate in Transnational Law"
- Internship at the Austrian Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland
- Internship at the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Fall School on Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Teheran, Iran
- Assistant to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg/Vienna
 

GRE:

not taken yet

Relevant Coursework:
- Theory of IR
- countless classes in International Law
- several classes on politcal systems and comparative politics 
- took classes in macroeconomics and introduction to economics for fun (didn't get good grades) 

 

Other experience:

- Vice Chairman of the Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs (very active student association in the field of foreign policy)
- was Junior Ambassador to the Munich Security Conference
- was Youth Participant at several high level UN fora (i.e. the Global Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations) 
- got eleceted as member of the federal student union
- leader of a student chapter of an international NGO dealing with disarmament 
 

 

My main concern is, that my class rank and GPA won't be high enough? what do you think?