PoliPixie
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Not sure if it's still the case, but I know from personal experience that (at least in 2013) you could get an 18 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon for $9.99 in College Park, Maryland. We went to Washington DC and stayed in Cheverly. Beautiful area and very quick train ride into DC. Would absolutely move there if given the opportunity.
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Just received that email as well.
Just now, CitizenFour said:Just as I suspected, the U of Toronto post wasn't real. I just received this from their Graduate Administrator:
Dear PhD applicants:
Greetings from the Department of Political Science.
Because many of you have been wondering, I am sending this email to confirm our timeframe for response to our PhD applicants. We have our admissions meeting tomorrow and will send out our first round of offers early next week. If you are being admitted in the first round you will hear from us by Tuesday of next week. We will email all remaining applicants between Tuesday and the end of next week. This includes applicants who are being waitlisted or refused admission. Unfortunately, we won’t have a ranked waitlist so we are unable to let applicants know where you stand on the waitlist. We give our admitted applicants two weeks from the date of our offer to reply and at the end of this time the admissions committee will revisit the waitlist and decide on further offers.
I hope this helps. Unfortunately I may not be able to reply to responses to this email due to email traffic on other fronts but I just wanted to let you all know our timing. If you for some reason you are no longer interested in being considered for admission please send a note to confirm. Thank you for your patience.
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1 hour ago, Straussian Dogmatist said:
I saw it posted on the 1st of . PhD.
It's doing the weird quotey thing again.
Someone just posted an admit to U of T. Congratulations!!!
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13 minutes ago, Straussian Dogmatist said:
I saw it posted on the 1st of March. PhD.
Ah the call from POI. The rumour was this week. York was also supposed to release their results this week and I haven't seen any posts from York acceptances (I didn't apply, so can't speak from personal knowledge).
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15 minutes ago, Straussian Dogmatist said:
Did everyone see the Toronto acceptance on the results page? Any idea on when the bulk of results should be released?
No??? Was it PHD or MA? When was it posted? I've been stalking it all morning and must have missed it entirely. Let the hyperventilating begin.
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54 minutes ago, cbrgode said:
i'm so anxious now! still no status change - applied for PhD. Anyone else anxious with me?
Which programs did you apply to?
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I as well spoke to people about this and got the same impression as @ultraultra. It was strongly advised to me to stay in Political Science. .
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1 minute ago, ultraultra said:
I was in this position last year and the schools happily gave me extension! I just said I was considering ______ University strongly but wanted to ensure I had full information and had heard from everyone before making nay decisions. It's gonna be okay! And congrats on your offers!
Thank you! You would think this part would be less stressful, but it totally isn't. And of course, I assume like most of us, I overanalyze everything they write and everything I write. I just want to fast forward through this, and be past the making a decision part and the getting ready to uproot my life part (because that actually sounds less stressful at the moment).
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8 minutes ago, Determinedandnervous said:
Absolutely ask for an extension. Is this a program in the US? If so, they have to give you until April 15, so the offer shouldn't expire on March 14 anyway.
It's in Canada, I'm not sure if we have the same rules regarding the deadline. I think I'll be able to give them an answer by the end of this week as long as the rumours about the results are true. Should the email read something like "I am seriously considering the offer, but am waiting to hear from one school before I accept?" Or is that too much information? I just want to make sure that I'm responding in the best way possible. I wish I was better at this.
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So this is not a problem I expected to have, but I am being actively wooed by a department right now (they've upped my offer and I've now received two emails from Professors in the department). The program is a very good program, I've only applied to one that is higher ranked, however that is the one I'm waiting for, those results are expected to come out this week. The great offer has a deadline of March 14th, if I do not get accepted or receive a subpar funding offer from the one I'm waiting for, I plan on accepting the great offer by the end of this week. So my question is what is the proper protocol here? Do I let them know I'm waiting for other results before I make my decision? I definitely don't want to burn bridges since I will most likely end up accepting so what is the best course of action here? NEVER thought this was a question I would be asking, but here we go. Any advice is very welcome!
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Friday night, can finally breathe again........... until Monday. It's ridiculous that I still feel as nervous despite the fact that I have an acceptance with a really great funding offer. Will the stress ever go away? And despite the fact that I know we will most likely not receive results over the weekend, I'll still be checking my email like crazy because of course I will.
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$15000 is pretty standard in my experience (that's what I was offered for 3 out 4 of the programs I applied to, the 4th was slightly lower).
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On 2/18/2016 at 2:35 PM, POLIS said:
The quote thing is messed up for me, this is not quoting Polis, lol.
You'll receive the full details of your package from Western if you accept their offer. However, if you email them and let them know you are entertaining another offer, they may be willing to provide you the details without the acceptance. Dalhousie is a great school. You can't go wrong accepting their offer (unless you're adverse to the East Coast, but I hear great things :D). Hope this helps! -
I started my MA two months after I had my second child and have just gotten into a PhD program. Doing it with a family has been rough, but I find that it's given me all of the motivation I need to do well. I did my MA full time thanks to an incredible support system. Find your village and use them! You'll need them.
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8 minutes ago, POLIS said:
Hey everyone!
Just got an offer of admission from Western University, so those should be coming around now for those who applied there. Best of luck!
As did I (for PhD)! Congratulations!
For the OP, I did my MA at McMaster. Your stats are great. I think you have a great shot. McMaster is a really wonderful learning environment (I'm probably biased, lol). I didn't do policy, but knew people who did and they all enjoyed the program.
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Flying monkey
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Hi, perpetual lurker here. Applied to the Political Science MA programs at UBC, McGill, U of T, and Memorial + SHHRC funding for all. My research interests are political psychology and political communication. Stats: cgpa is 3.9 or 4.0 depending on whether or not they include my first two years, experience as a research assistant for two profs and a PhD student, lots of extracurriculars (writing, electoral politics, activism, undergraduate academic journal), honours thesis, good references (though from faculty not in my subfield). I can only attend any program if its funded.
As far as I can tell none of these programs have sent out any MA decisions yet (and from results search seems like it still might be a while) and the wait is killing me. Second-guessing myself like crazy - wish I'd spent more time revising my SOP.
So hopefully this will be comforting to you: you are WAY better on paper as a candidate for an MA than I was and I got into every program I applied to with funding. I think your chances are very good. From what you've listed, I think you'll have your choice of programs. The wait may be awful, but you're going to get in.
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vodka shooter
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strong wind
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Neighbourhood watch
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bad service
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I've applied to York, heard nothing back, but checked my app and saw that they required me to send in official transcripts, but no decision/offer yet.
Your post made me check, and mine now also says they want official transcripts. I know that wasn't there before. I check my myfile all of the time. Good sign or not? So do we send in official transcripts now or wait until the conditional offers are made?
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Mars bar
Canadian Political Science Programs, Fall 2016 Admission
in Political Science Forum
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Usually schools will have students that you can reach out to to ask about the program and their experience with it. If they don't, you can see if anyone here has previously posted that they accepted to either of those programs and reach out to them. Ask for a campus visit, email the graduate chairs and ask your questions. Picking the right program is really important, especially for your MA. Your MA should push you beyond your comfort levels and push your understandings deeper. Program reputation and funding are of course very important as well, but you need to make sure it's the right program for you. I've heard that U of T is very Straussian (or at least it used to be), Queens has Will Kymlicka but also has some more conservative faculty. You need to make sure you're picking a program that fits you. McMaster is very critical theory which was perfect for me but wouldn't have necessarily been the right choice for someone else.