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  1. Re: costs. Most schools offer waivers for the app fee. I know it's yet another form/hassle to deal with, but having taken out a 2nd job to pay for my 1st round of apps (result: 2/3 tuition waiver to my preferred MA program), I would encourage anyone without personal wealth to apply for the waivers.
  2. Or a PhD/JD, there's good funding for that at UChicago and Yale
  3. The New School also has a nice MA in Politics for those with strong interests in political theory and ethnography. Columbia also offers an MA in political science and more professional MAs through SIPA - The School of International and Public Affairs. And to the Korbel booster: if the Bush administration and the Iraq war was good enough for Condoleeza, then it's good enough for you too!
  4. Hey, just a quick question for the forum. In applying to PhD programs which types of internships will benefit your application in any meaningful way. I'm thinking here of internships at: think tanks, academic journals, NGOs, govt. bodies, editorial/journalism, etc. Anyone have Search Committee level insight on this? Thanks
  5. I don't know about Pitt's connections but I doubt they could be stronger than the schools in DC. So that's Hopkins SAIS, Georgetown, and American. Of course Harvard's Kennedy School is top flight, along with Princeton's Wilson school. Maybe look into SIPA at Columbia or even GPIA at New School if you want to be closer to the UN.
  6. Minnesota, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, New School, Yale. Not too familiar with the UC system, but look at Santa Cruz, Berkeley, San Diego, Davis, and Irvine.
  7. In 2010 I was admitted to 3 MAs and waitlited/dropped off of a good Ph.D.program. I took one of the MAs with a healthy tuition waiver. I'm ready to apply again in a year or two, hindsight's always 20/20.
  8. Thank you Helix for this great question. I'm sure that the answer is available with some due diligence, however I'd love to hear others thoughts. If I may, I'd like to also open the discussion to good comparative departments in the second tier in general. And Helix, no doubt you've heard it before, but perhaps you should look at schools that have asian studies departments or a strong asian component in related disciplines like anthropology or economics. Also, are any Canadian programs strong in asian studies, maybe UBC?
  9. Qual/Theory friendly places where you can still get placed out of: Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Duke. Then down a tier there's: UC-Santa Cruz, New School, Boston College, Emory I'm sure I'm forgetting places, but listen, here's what you need to do. Figure out who you'd like to study with and then go there, it's that simple. Read around your interests, see where the debates that you're interested in are happening and then go there.
  10. If i'm in a terminal MA looking to apply to PhDs would being an officer of the graduate students association make any impact on my application to PhD programs? The association is for both MA and PhD students. Just thought it might make a difference because this shows that I care about a healthy cohort/program/department. Our association has a voice on proposing and approving new hires, we suggest courses and adjuncts, organize field seminar schedules. It's not like we're making banners for homecoming here. What about organizing committees for conferences, does that send a positive signal? Or does all of this just display poor time management/lack of seriousness?
  11. IR Theory is definitely not a subfield, but it's all good. I think Patrick Thaddeus Jackson at American is great though, he looks at IR from a Philosophy of Science perspective, and he has great podcasts too. American isn't a top program, but that could work to your advantage, as he's till quite young and definitely taking on students.
  12. Yes, Friday the 16th an official email will come with mail out to follow on Toronto MAs, you head it here fist folks
  13. I emailed to find out about my Toronto status. Official MA admits go out on Friday with more info on funding etc.
  14. I also got the Minnesota letter, no PhD for me. I did, however get into the Toronto MA about 20 min. after the Minnesota letter came through. So now the decision is New School (1/2 tuition) MA vs. McGill MA vs. Toronto MA tough, tough, tough
  15. OMG April 15 is nigh. I'm officially going with NSSR (with 1/2 tuition) MA over McGill MA. I'm on the waitlist at Toronto MA, and if that comes through, I'll go there. Otherwise this would go in the 100% post.
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