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PhD in what? Viable how? What is your background otherwise?

1 month and 3 days left...but who's counting?

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No one go to Princeton! Kthnx

From my understanding, it is contingent on the system for wait listing. Some programs have subfield-level wait lists, but others literally have POI-level waiting lists. This saddens me because I am wait listed after listing 3 rock star POIs but I would be happy to work under so many other faculty at the university I'm working at as well!

Not from Princeton/Harvard!

Speaking with DGS and POIs, it is almost always on April 15th that people hear back. Can you imagine the craziness on the last day for middle-tier universities?

That terrible feeling when you know that you will not hear a final decision from the waiting list until April 15. Tick, tick, tick....

I am guessing this is an implicit rejection? Stil haven't heard.

Doorkeeper you just need to click your heels three times and believe.

Convinced that polisci job rumors losers are posting yale notices just to toy with us. Mission accomplished, mission accomplished.

I don't trust any thing on here anymore. Anyone else decided where they will go already thst applied to multiple programs? I'm waiting out Princeton because it's my dream program, but otherwise helllooo Durham.

At least (I think) this has not happened to anyone on here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-17/carnegie-mellon-mistakenly-admits-800-students

According to the Yale DGS site, they neither make offers over the phone nor will contact you about decisions by phone. I am expecting next week, contrary to the posts on here. However, I am happy to put my foot in my mouth if I'm wrong. Btw, is it common for a department to offset funding by any external funding you receive? I noticed at Duke that if you receive $X, your fellowshop/stipend is offset by $X, r sultan in a net gain of $0.

Having done some research, it appears that those who have not received word from UCLA as of now are on a waitlist and should expect to hear a result around April 15. It also appears that UCLA will not verbally confirm that individuals are waitlisted. I understand not emailing everyone they are waitlisted, but if am applicant calls or emails with that specific question, it seems unprofessional to lie. I am strongly considering withdrawing my application due to their obscufation and discouraging several future applicants from applying under the assumption that external facing behavior is an upper bound on internal facing behavior of administrative staff. I have read through several other boards and this appears to be a routine failure of UCLA.

This is from faculty at Princeton, faculty who went to Princeton, and past posts on the wait list process.

I think it is very safe to say that anyone who has not heard back from UNC or UCLA is not accepted outright. I would also bet that it implies rejection, or on the waitlist for the waitlist based on historic data. Also, it is my impression that in the American and IR subfields quite a few can come off the waitlist at Princeton, although in comparative and methods virtually no one comes off of the list.

One of the advantages of a public policy degree is that there often is a collaborative project where intensive research (if you are at the right place and on the right project) is the primary goal. Even if you will never work in a research team per se, understanding those group dynamics is so crucial to not making every one hate you and likely damaging your career potential unless you're just a massive stud. I think most grad school programs in the natural sciences force this experience through lab settings, but the closest you get to it in the social sciences is research h colloquia or workshops, but these seem to be more meeting of individuals rather than dealing with group dynamics as a member of the group.

I applied and have not heard back from UNC but applied to work under Huber and Stephens, similar to probably everyone else.

Then you're not thinking hard enough. Oftentimes the department makes a decision but the graduate admissions office then must process that decision and send out letters. This can take a week even because they are processing other departments' information as well. Additionally, there are reasons why a department or graduate office may not want to give you a response even though there is a 99% they have made their final decision, e.g. to create an unofficial wait list, they're just busy at the time, etc.

I think it's fair to say that over time the reliability of the results page decreases. I suspect the results closely track the actual outcomes on here at first then people become lazy and don't update it.

Where would be your destination? Wisconsin, OSU, WUSTL? I'm under the impression Americanist at WUSTL are meh and the other 2 are great, but I can be wrong. Princeton always seems to me like an amazing place for those Americanist with heavy methods interests (e.g. Bartels) but not for those less interested in methods

Comparative. Damnit! Best of luck. Side note: anyone in comparative accepted and Princeton and planning to take your talents elsewhere?

Also wait listed at princeton. Isn't this the part where we engage in a Coasean bargain where one of us pays the other off to leave the waitlist