ordinonuovo
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Deudney at Johns Hopkins, Nexon at Georgetown, Katzenstein at Cornell,
Onuf at Florida International University all fall under the broad constructivist
umbrella. Kratochwil and Ruggie, I believe, do not advise students anymore.
There aren't many in the US.
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If you keep up that attitude, and your professor's have the same
impression that I do, then they should respond with sympathy and
encouragement as well. Keep you chin up, there is no shame in not
being accepted, just in not having done your best. I'm assuming that
you are trying one more time to not leave any doubt about the latter.
Let the professors know after everything has been finalized, and
good luck next year.
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Based on my experience, I'd e-mail Virginia if you want to get an answer from them.
Their admissions office is not the most pro-active in getting out info to non-admits.
I remember last year I waited on them for over a month and a half after the first
batch got admitted, then got a one-line reply saying that I had not. They said the official
rejection letter would come, but it never did.
I could afford to be non-chalant about them, because I had gotten into a better program,
but if this is your top-choice, or you have a lot hanging on whether you get in or not,
e-mail them.
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News from UCLA grad, the admissions committee meeting was held today at 3 pm. Members went in having reviewed all their
student files. That's all I know.
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Are you guys talking about the PhD program they have at SAIS, or the one at their main campus in
Baltimore? I hear their main campus PhD program is decent in theory, but don't know about the other
subfields. Not many people know about the IR PhD program in DC, and well, that explains alot I guess.
since more people would know about it if it was a great program.
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I know for a fact that UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSD, and MIT did not provide full funding for all
their grad students last year. These are all top 10 PoliSci programs in most ranking schemes.
HYP Stanford and Chicago funds everyone, U of Michigan does also. Not sure about the others
(Columbia, Duke, etc). The CA budget crisis seems to be the biggest problem for the UC schools,
which will be exacerbated this year. The pinch has spread to the private schools the past few
months, with endowments taking a hit.
Each school, however, has a different policy of whether, and how much, of their resources and
funding they allocate to domestic and foreign students. Americans may remain unaffected at
some/most of these schools, even those cutting back.
The calculations regarding this are different for the state and private schools,
because state schools can fund 2-3 Americans with the money they need to fund 1 student(this
is because of the different in-state and out-of-state tuition), but hard times strengthen the
tendency to 'take care of one's own.' It will be interesting to see what the effect of the crunch
will be on the proportion of international students at the top universities.
Good luck everyone.
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Aim higher. You need to get into a top 20 school(preferrably top 10) if you want to get anywhere with that Phd.
Your GRE math is a tad low for the top 5 programs, but I imagine you still have a chance at the 6-20 range.
Michigan, UCLA, UCSD as well as a quite a number of schools within the top 20 have excellent AP programs.
Apply to 5-6 of them besides the 2-3 safety schools.
And Good Luck.
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You don't have an edge in any of the areas that admission committees will be looking,
unless you haven't told us. Your research interest is way too broad.
I would say that you still don't have a safety school among
the PhD programs.
Yes brutal, but that is my take on the situation.
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You're right that your alma mater doesn't match your interests. If you're into IR, then I'm afraid that
there just aren't many programs that will offer even a rough match for your interests. If that is what
you really want to study, look at a few of the programs in the UK. Peruse through the journal Millenium,
and I'm sure you'll find a few articles that will grab a hold of you. In the US, maybe Minnesota, OSU,
Cornell(programs with varying degrees of constructivist tints) have faculty that could take you on, but
not in the region that you are interested in.
If you're just a junior though, take a bit slow. Go abroad and immerse yourself in that culture, take a
few more classes in comparative and IR, look through what specialists on South Asia have been
writing in the Polisci field. It won't be late even after you're done with your Peace Corps. I also
agree with the above post that a few basic political science courses, as well as stats/micro and macro
in economics would be a plus.
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For me, UCLA it is..
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Anybody been to their admit day? I'm interested in their IR program.
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Still no funding info.. Has anybody heard anything from G-town?
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There is a lot that is true with the old adage that 'extremes meet at the other end(or at least that
is what we say in Korea)'. I remember Kissinger saying at a meeting that wasn't opened up to
reporters that he thought the neo-conservatives were basically 'Trostkyists at heart," that sought
for democracy across the world, like the old revolutionaries called for 'world revolution.'
The throwback realist castigating the modern crusaders.. something to see..
He did give the neo-cons credit for good 'analysis' of world affairs though...
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A little late, but just wanted to thank all the responses to the Northwestern/UCLA post: detroitfan,
tidefan, silencio, eve2008, and realist. They've all helped.
I've actually been waitlisted for funding at UCLA, and the letter from the dept said that even
if I don't get it, 'most' students that 'do well' can get
TA or RA posts starting their second year. I've asked students that I know at the dept for more
concrete info and will wait for reponses before making a decision(No way can I go through
5-7 years without the support, but 1 year is a can do).
And let's try to turn down the heat a bit here, the rhetorical edge of some of the posts is a lot
sharper(ouch!) than the actual differences in opinion would seem to suggest.
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I wish I could go to the event, but can't really imagine getting on an airplane for a 13 hour ride to DC(the
e-mail mentions nothing about airfare). For those that attend, let me know what you learn. Would
appreciate it.
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Cornell is also a place you might want to look at, particularly if your regional focus is Asia and your
interest overlaps with non-traditional approaches to security.
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In as well.. probably will decline have to decline if it's without full funding though...
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I think I can agree with all the main tenets of Realist's posts, but the real question regarding his views is:
why the arbitrary/or real cut-off at the top 25 which he makes? Why not the top 20, 15, or 10. S/He
says you should not pay to go to a below top 25 school, but what if the choice is between paying to go
to a top ten school and not paying to go to a top 25? What are the standards and critera for making a
decision then? I am asking this because I hope that he, or others at this cafe can be of help regarding
a real-life dilemma that I face: Non-funded graduate studies or UCLA or fully supported studies at
Northwestern. I believe you can easilty substitute other schools into that sentence, but the question
will remain. Mr/Ms Realist, can you be of some help? Any others want to try?
In case this helps, I am an internationa student(Asia), and my sub-field is IR(dual interests in
security studies with and political/IR theory). The regional focus would be Northeast Asia.
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And yes the waiting continues...
I don't suppose e-mailing them would help, do you? Anyone else in the same situation?
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Anybody know who to e-mail for a status update(or to have them resend their rejection mail)?
More than three weeks have passed since people started posting rejections/acceptances, but no news
from here(it normally takes 2 weeks for mail to arrive from the US).
Anybody else in a similar situation?
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Come on.. Let's just get this over with.
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Yep, still waiting. No status change at the website...
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It is taking an awful long time for the letter to reach Asia.. Anyone else not receive their white envelope?
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I don't live in the US, and I would be careful to accept the view that the international reputation of the NSSR is better than that in the US. It's comparative advantage comes from its unique history and non-orthodox(ie leftist) approach in the sciences, but unless a particular university abroad has similar tendencies to look favorably upon such work, I don't think
it applies that foreign institutions of higher education will look more positively upon the NSSR than domestic ones.
PoliSci 2008-2009 Cycle
in Political Science Forum
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Georgetown is probably done. They did the same thing last year. They contact the
few that they are going to fund(their top choices: not many since their
resources are pretty limited. Why, I never understood.) earlier in the process,
and also those that are wait-listed for funding, and then send out mass
e-mails to those that aren't receiving support(at least their first year).
So it's just not the 25, but the 15 or so that they have contacted previously.
Admittances to 40+ doesn't sound so outrageous, considering the state of
things.