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Applied to Ufl too. Confirmed from department admission decision will come with funding ... but this would happen(notifications) by the end of February. So I got to wait for both. Oooh

Tried as I could to avoid this GRE thing, I guess the moment of truth is eventually here and I have to take it. For now I am working myself on the vocabulary like no man's business. I bought Kaplan GRE book and CD, which I find really helpful. Lately I have been on the internet taking some of those tests too, and I have to confess it is going quite well. Yesterday, I got a 2005 Princeton Review "Cracking the GRE" CD from a friend which I was hoping I could use to get more real CAT tests. I just found out I have to get the password from the book which came with the CD. Unfortunately, my friend lost the original book. I am just hoping that someone here may have the old 2005 Princeton Review Cracking the GRE book who can then help me with the password in that book. According to the CD info, the password is the FIRST WORD ON THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT SECTION. I will be more than grateful for any help I can get here.

learned the hard way that a second MA is more of a negative than positive. I got rejected in the two programs where I applied for second MA. Plus I think the admission committee members thought MA international studies and MA Political Science are not that different and would be waste of their resources admitting me. Yep. So I got rejected; only got admitted to an MPPA program which is definitely different from political science even though related to a large extent. I guess I should just move straight ahead into a PhD program. On hindsight, it was really stupid applying for the MA Pol Sci programs. But hey, that is life. You make mistakes, you learn and move on.

Now talking about Mcgill, that is my first choice school. Applying for a Masters in Pol. Sci.(my 2nd MA). Haven't heard about admissions or stuff like that; any body in the same boat? Anybody heard from McGill or Carleton on admission/funding? Dying of curiosity. Congratulations on your award man. If I were you, I would not ask even one question: will pack and head to Montreal in the summer. LOL.

Weird. Got a letter from a canadian university. All it says is tons of congratulations on my acceptance to the program without a word about whether or not I will get any funding. Then I called the school and was told I might be guaranteed some TAship, but have to attend a mandatory orientation. Anybody with similar experience? Did you accept and when you did, what changed? More seriously I am an international student and have to prove by some sort of funding from school that I could handle the financial needs of the program in order to get a visa. Curious because I have few hours to have to accept.

Well I currently hold an MA in international studies and have applied for a MPPA and MA (political science). I have a CGPA of 3.7 (undergraduate) and 3.8 (grad) and excellent recommendations. I'm also currently working as a research officer in a policy research institute. Got my applications in 3 schools. Working with this policy place has widened my interests considerably but I also don't want to withdraw from my prior interests especially one that I did my thesis on. Guess you can call it "undecided" on precisely which way my research should be headed. Where I work now, I do not have much control over my research focus ...it is decided by the organisation. So I thought another MA would, aside of deepening my knowledge in PolSci, which I need very much because my undergraduate was in a non-political science area (Tourism), I thought it will also provide me the opportunity to figure things out especially in relation to my newly-found interests. I definitely don't want to get into PhD and half way into it, realise I should have been writing on something else. Another MA certainly will give me a room to reconsider stuff while getting yet another degree. Taking all things into consideration, do you think my current MA is a plus or minus to admission and funding opportunities. I just can't see how it could be negative, though! What do you think?