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Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
It certainly does sound like you have a very strong chance of getting accepted. I'd be more excited that people at Yale liked your application (even if you didn't get in), since that means you have a very good chance at your other PhD schools. The program is probably great, but would end up costing you a bunch (living expenses would be around $18,000, so even if you got a partial tuition waver, it'd still cost you over $20,000). Hopefully you end up with a tough choice to make (between a PhD program and the masters). -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Any guesses about who's deciding this week? Judging by 2008/2009, it seems likely we'll hear from: -Duke -Rochester -UVA -Emory -Iowa -Florida St. -Yale -UCLA And considering things are moving a bit earlier than usually this year, maybe: -BC -Michigan -Northwestern -Penn St. -Pittsburgh -UC-Berkeley Good luck to all! -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Wow, I'd be incredibly frustrated after getting an email like that. I'd rather not know if my application was close to being accepted, but they hadn't decided. Best wishes, and I assume it is a relatively short list (I agree with curufinwe). -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Another for Wisconsin! Such a weight off the shoulders! -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
They sort of seem it, but why would someone bother making those up? Also, did anybody figure out what the deal was with Brown's admissions? Those seemed a little curious as well. -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Congrats! I was hoping someone was finally going to claim one of the WashU/Brown/Stanford/UW ones! -
I have received an email saying something like that, but it doesn't seem to be normal, so I wouldn't worry. We'll hear soon enough!
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When do the following schools send out acceptances...
ladedodaday replied to irishfan11's topic in Political Science Forum
Yeah, just search each school and find out when they accepted people last year (using the "results search" at the top of the page). -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Thanks for the informative post! -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
On this same note, Plisar, if you're out there, do you know what UCSD's situation is this year? Are they taking/funding grad students? -
Beginner's question! "Good Fit"?
ladedodaday replied to Parisienne's topic in Political Science Forum
I'd actually say that you need to be more specific on both. Because democratization is such a broad topic (just like IPE), regional specialties can be very important. But, that really depends what you want to do. For example, if you want to study democratization in a specific region, than you should pay a lot of attention to scholars' regional specialties. On the other hand, if you are interested in democratization on a global level, you might want to make sure the school has someone doing something similar. For example, if you want to study democratization in China, a good fit would be a school with someone studying democratization in China and a professor who studies democratization in Latin America would probably be unable to help you very much, and might refuse to take you on as a student. Likewise, if you are just interested in democratization (period), you might want to find scholars who do larger studies, like James Robinson or John Gerring. That's just my feeling though, and others might have better insights! Ultimately, however, cpaige is right: you need to ask yourself whether you are interested in that person's work, would want to be a RA for them, and whether they could advise you. -
Fall 2010 Admission Results
ladedodaday replied to APGradApplicant's topic in Political Science Forum
Congratulations indeed! Hopefully the funding situation works itself out. It sounds like the fun is starting a little early this year. Personally, I just got an email from a professor at one of my schools letting me know that I had an appealing application and should keep in touch with him through the process! Exciting times! -
This is an entirely arbitrary but weirdly compelling system. Maybe my mind is warped from spending too much time on here with overachievers, but wouldn't there be a huge logjam of applicants between 10 and 11? Either way, the whole process is really strange, but there seems to be no logical/fair way of doing it. Hopefully we're all lucky!
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Let's! Has anyone (out of college) been doing work in preparation for grad school, like reading articles or studying calc/statistics?
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There is no reason for this discussion to clog up a perfectly good thread! I am sending you a response via PM. But, thanks for informing me that IR, Comparative, and American scholars don't do empirical work! That will save me a lot of time in grad school Also, let's leave the personal attacks where they belong: on poliscijobrumors.com
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Lev, I hope you're a troll because your argument is absurd. A few quick points: - Political science is not part of the humanities. It is a social science. It is largely empirical (apologies theorists!). - This means that the Chronicle article is irrelevant. - Even if it was relevant, the author is trying to convince people who are not independently wealthy people to not go to grad school, which implies that non-wealthy people are currently in grad schools. - But even that doesn't matter, because most top political science schools give stipends, so finances aren't an issue. - Your historic examples are silly and irrelevant. First, the sample is ridiculously small. Second, they are only from a sub-discipline of political science. Third, they are all from an era where few people went to college at all. There is no reason to believe political science programs have the same socioeconomic makeup as they did 50 years ago. So, your argument is wrong because it misunderstands what political science is, cites irrelevant articles, and abuses history. I can't believe I just took the time to respond to your post, but it struck me as absurd. It is like the critical thinking prompt for the GRE verbal section--so littered with errors that it is difficult to know where to start.
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You answered your own question: Their adherence to formal methods and theory is great, but most people on this board aren't focusing on those limited areas of political science. If that's your thing, those are your places, but they seem to be very specialized. Personally, they don't have professors researching anything that interests me.
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I think other people have covered most of the schools that have sent out emails, but WUSTL should get a special mention for their incredibly friendly emails.
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I am not applying to TAMU, but if it's the same as last year, they sort of drip out admissions. I wouldn't worry if you haven't heard yet!
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Maybe it's the same guy/girl who got into UC-Berkeley three times :-)
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Looks like someone posted an acceptance! Craziness. It seems a bit early.
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But considering that a whole host of schools send out acceptances in the first week of February, could it really be later than MLK day? I'd hope that committees spend more than a week reviewing applications :-)
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That sounds about right. I think most places start by early January (I remember a bunch of websites saying that), or whenever professors get back from break.
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Seconded!
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]]] This is a wholly off-topic but quite interesting thread, but I have to agree with applying12010: we've done everything we can, so let's just cross our fingers. The scariest part of this process is that someone who does everything right can still be denied (like plisar's friend who didn't get in anywhere). It really is a crapshoot to some extent, which becomes clear looking at where people did/didn't get in last year. Out of curiosity though (and entirely off topic), does anybody know which subfields typically get the most applications?