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Anyone here accepted with no funding, but seriously considering SAIS? I have a hard time telling myself it's not worth it despite the price tag, especially when I've received peanuts from every school I've been accepted to. That said, I do have the ability to live with my folks in DC, which lowers the cost considerably.

Are you all citing the federal award total? I got my financial aid email at my secondary email address for some reason... edit: Just kidding.. Got a separate email with fellowship information.

Can't offer much advice, but you're much more likely to get an educated response over here: http://forum.thegradcafe.com/forum/11-government-affairs/

If you're interested in International Development check out these books and sites that were included in an email to incoming students to Georgetown's MIDP a couple years ago. · Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail · Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics · William Easterly, White Man’s Burden · Dean Karlan, More than Good Intentions · Bjorn Lomborg, Global Crises, Global Solutions · Lant Pritchett, et al, Moving Out of Poverty: 2 · Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes · Chris Blattman: http://chrisblattman.com/ · Owen Barder: http://www.owen.org/ · Dani Rodrik: http://rodrik.typepad.com/ · Tyler Cowen: http://marginalrevolution.com/ · IPA Blog: http://poverty-action.org/blog · World Bank Impact Eval Blog: http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/ · CGD Policy Blog: http://www.cgdev.org/section/opinions/blogs · J-PAL Website: http://www.povertyactionlab.org/ · 3ie Website: http://www.3ieimpact.org/

Also snowed in... Not too specific, but could you comment on your experiences being on both campuses? Differences in classes, student body, internships.. Whatever comes to mind. If you've recently been employed - has SAIS been helpful at all in getting a job? edit - Thanks for doing this. I'm nearly out of things to do too

The better out of the 3 would be the one that best helps you land a job at a UN agency and I think you sort of answered your own question there. I'd say SIPA's relative proximity to the UN, UN specialization, and UN Student Working Group seem like a pretty good fit.

Just my opinion here, but I think it would be redundant to include your GRE score on your CV/resume. You've sent them your GRE score separately and they're not using your CV/resume as the primary source for your test scores.

I'm with unagi on the relevant coursework. Seems like it just would be redundant and a waste of space.