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  1. I had the impression that for foreign students GRE and toefl scores are more like a protocol evaluation while ur entire profile and "FITability" counts more.
  2. Macchiato! thank you for your response! I guess finally the economic factor will speak loud!
  3. I have just received all responses from my applications: admitted by Sciences-Po PSIA/Columbia SIPA dual degree in MIA and Geneva Graduate Institute IHEID's MDEV. IHEID is the only one that has offered scholarship. It asked me to answer before April 15. So, I really have to decide asap. I will list shortly what I have heard of those schools, their advantages and disadvantages. IHEID. Two year in Geneva; Size: tiny school (less than 1000) and big program (100 for Mdev); Student profile: recently graduated young people; Networking: Internship at IOs, faculty and similar-background colleagues; Expense (fee+living): 0 due to the scholarship for the first year, and around $20.000 for the second year; Internship opportunity: plenty and easy; Advantages: 2 year of IO oriented study; location, location; guaranteed first year FREE; Disadvantages: not well-known, seems a little bit harder to get good job immediately; has not a functioning alumni network. PSIA-SIPA. First year in Paris and second year in New York; Size: 15-20 persons program inserted into huge schools and huge communities (500 to 1000); Student profile: young people for the program, young people in Paris then mostly experienced policy-makers at SIPA; Networking: similar-background young people at the program and at PSIA//Experienced old people at SIPA; Expenses (fee+living): around $25.000 for the first year and $80.000 for the second; Internship opportunities: very competitive at NYC; Advantages: bilingual; location; big name; easy to get job; better than Sciences-Po PSIA's single degree; Disadvantages: networking may actually be limited within the program; affordable but hard-life; someone told me that dual degree is not as solid as a single degree; unknown market reception; SIPA is too big; Previously I have ranked PSIA-SIPA>IHEID, but then IHEID's scholarship made it attractive, and rumors of dual degree being ineffective shook PSIA-SIPA's first place. I am unable to decide.... any help?
  4. I have just received all responses from my applications: admitted by Sciences-Po PSIA/Columbia SIPA dual degree in MIA, Sciences-Po PSIA MIA IDev, LSE MPA IDev and Geneva Graduate Institute IHEID's MDEV. IHEID is the only one that has offered scholarship. It asked me to answer before April 15. So, I really have to decide asap. I will list shortly what I have heard of those schools, their advantages and disadvantages. IHEID. Two year in Geneva; Size: tiny school (less than 1000) and big program (100 for Mdev); Student profile: recently graduated young people; Networking: Internship at IOs, faculty and similar-background colleagues; Expense (fee+living): 0 due to the scholarship for the first year, and around $20.000 for the second year; Internship opportunity: plenty and easy; Advantages: 2 year of IO oriented study; location, location; guaranteed first year FREE; Disadvantages: not well-known, seems a little bit harder to get good job immediately; has not a functioning alumni network. PSIA-SIPA. First year in Paris and second year in New York; Size: 15-20 persons program inserted into huge schools and huge communities (500 to 1000); Student profile: young people for the program, young people in Paris then mostly experienced policy-makers at SIPA; Networking: similar-background young people at the program and at PSIA//Experienced old people at SIPA; Expenses (fee+living): around $25.000 for the first year and $80.000 for the second; Internship opportunities: very competitive at NYC; Advantages: bilingual; location; big name; easy to get job; better than Sciences-Po PSIA's single degree; Disadvantages: networking may actually be limited within the program; affordable but hard-life; someone told me that dual degree is not as solid as a single degree; unknown market reception; SIPA is too big; LSE Two years in London; Size: big school and big program (100-200); Student profile: similar to SIPA, experienced policy-makers with some young people. Networking: within colleagues, similar to SIPA; Expenses (fee+living): around $53.000 per year; Internship opportunities: unknown; Advantages: carrier-oriented MPA; big name; easy to find job; Disadvantages: affordable but hard-life; Previously I have ranked PSIA-SIPA>LSE>IHEID, but then IHEID's scholarship made it attractive, and rumors of dual degree being ineffective shook PSIA-SIPA's first place. I am unable to decide.... any help?
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