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I admit im tired of rejection letters starting with 'Dear Omar, we regret to inform you of being rejected to our program ' And they usually end their letters with the competitiveness excuse with no details of how to make my application better How can I let the depression stop of taking over me..

Thank you, im grateful for the useful stated information. While i do think such schools nomatter how flexible their requirements may be, however they still need an effort to put into in order to be competitive and be admitted. What mostly I admire in some schools is their urge for int'l students to create a more enriching spectacular student sphere.

This response is worthless and adds 0 information for me and for any guest/member. As for the GRE, Not just McMaster solely doesnt require GRE, but UK Top Uni's like Oxford, Cambridge & LSE doesnt require it, and they are equal in terms of selectivity & prestige to Harvard, Stanford & MIT. Does that make "Drake University (US school)" that requires a GRE better than Oxford Uni that does not? & who you're to judge that I suffer from lack of ethics? Nothing but an anonymous, which totally makes 0 weight & credibility to your replies. Save your time by doing better useful stuff.

Yes, their TOEFL minimum i 80, I scored 100.

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Nice mass crowd phenomenon going on. Id recommend you to read Gustav Lebon's masterpiece "Psychology of the crowd" youll definitely find yourself underlying within the context of his analysis.

None forced you to believe sir. And what about the GRE "hand"kissing here? Is this some sort of an authoritarian forum where hemogenous ideas are likely to be perfect while criticizing ETS is a major issue?

What i did is simply stating a brief information regarding my overall abilities & achievements that you actually were a denial on. And when i respond you find that weird? And what attitude are you talking about? Is it because of a hypothetical situation that I imaginized in a topic that I wanted to have a philosophical argument regarding morals of ethics ?

Thank you for such an informative reply while the term selectivity is a bit spooky for us as int'l students, however the way you emphasized on it in the case of McMaster is very relaxing. I think I will consider applying soon. And yes you're right, as I remember McMaster has a terminal major of International Relations, and a also there is poli sci. If I may ask, fifteen admissions out of how many? The acreddited Canadian universities from my department to obtain an acceptance are: 1- McGill uni 2- uni of Alberta 3- McMaster uni 4- Uni of British Columbia Ive reviewed all of the above listed requirements, McMaster seemed less strict. Hope this helps, and any additional thoughts would be appreciated.

Who you think you are to determine am i qualified enough or not? You're at the utmost expectations are a grad student who got several rejections before gotten admitted. Have you seen my reseach papers? Did you know that I am with a continuous contact with American University, Harvard Kennedy School (Government Dept), Duke University, Georgetown University, Texas at Austin University faculty members are cooperating in several academic papers and they actually have shown interests for my papers to reference in their academic subfields? I am in terms of an undergrad & Grad GPA (yes am a grad student), english proficiency tests, experiences, extracurricular activities, achievements (two books on comparative politics, published article) and honors. I am qualified to apply to about 85% of the US grad programs in my major, the one and only defect which is in my profile is my low GRE scores WHICH can be fixed by studying which I NEVER did when I took my once and only GRE, hence it is very logical to occur. I have proven that I am eligible in english proficiency tests in both in the IELTS and TOEFL. I have scored a 7.5/9 in the IELTS listening & speaking portions which is equivalent to 27/30 on TOEFL. I have scored a 23/30 writing on TOEFL before 3 years without even practicing and my vocabulary and grammar were less mature than now. Empirically, I am Qualified to be a competitive applicant except that I have to WORK on my GRE which is doable. Remember english is my second language & I speak generally three languages, Native in Arabic, full fluency in English, average in French. You have 0 qualifications to evaluate and judge my profile.

Yes I am from Kuwait. And I am actually a MA student already, however I want to obtain a governmental scholarship from Kuwaits government, which can be obtained by earning an acceptance from a list of acreddited universities (90% of the schools listed are in the US and highly selective, while there are only 4 Canadian uni's and McMaster seemed the most flexible one in terms of requirements hence I am asking here) In addition, obtaining an acceptance (from McMaster for example) will grant me a governmental scholarship to pursue MA & PhD and when done with that, It'll end by becoming a faculty member (TA) in the dept. Of political science at kuwait university. Thats why Im simply asking.

I would count on that when the testing center's work is based solely on providing a convenient environment for the test, however that test center has many other objectives aside from organizing tests. In addition, even if we would consider it a legitimate profitting, taking a 100$ does not seem convincing for me, i think something isnt right and illegal.

Uconn, umass, uc santa cruz are very average unis dont worry.

If you scored less than 100 in TOEFL and less than 315 combined score in GRE and your GPA is less than 3.60 dont waste your time and effort to apply to Yale MIT Harvard Stanford. I know they make us drool and sound flashy but I think you dont want to start your new year with "Sorry to inform you" e-mail letters. Best of luck, Campione!

True I heard about that. I assume it stopped because ETS was getting less $$$ from it, since ETS is selfish and wants to grant only on making a guaranteed successful money, which comes by the general test.