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any status update on the application portal?

calling shenanigans on that one

Gotcha - thanks!

ZS -- is your Northwestern status posted on the application portal as well?

Northwestern?! who posted that one?

I don' thave enough PTO to go to all these places

Just got an admit to UC Davis as well!

Yeah! Davis was this time last year.

If you're looking for one in DC this is not true! You certainly do not need an MA

I work in online communications

received a very nice acceptance letter from Colorado Boulder this morning!

Steven Levitsky is basically the reason I applied to Harvard.

hey that seems like something I can relate to. no acceptance yet, though, but when it happens these last few months are going to take for ever. I did! not too optimistic about that one though

slow day at work. i'm doing the same. i did have my Emory interview today, which went well (I guess?). it wasn't really much like a job interview.

They're really not that different, especially if you come to DC where everybody in those fields has an M.A. The only way the school makes a difference is its alumni network, which is a huge advantage in finding a job in DC. That being said, you're still going to have to intern somewhere unless you are very, very lucky. An M.A. is certainly not a qualification to work in the policy/think tank/NGO world -- those are extremely competitive jobs and you'll need some internship experience in order to be considered most likely.

more admissions decisions, please.

I'm hoping Colorado Boulder is coming soon! Last year they were around this time.

Solid plan -- I have lots and lots of job interview experience, and was wondering if there were any weird idiosyncrasies with this style I wasn't thinking of.

Does anybody have any advice for an interview? it looks like the Emory interview is with 3 faculty over skype

it's higher than mine! everything I've seen and read, and you can look at some schools' previous classes admissions info, is that is either within the average or even slightly above it for a Q score.

just got an interview invite from Emory!

Oh man, I just saw another Emory rejection posted. Anybody else get anything?

So much waiting.

Well, that makes sense.

So I've been (not obsessively, I promise) checking the survey page and notice a lot of people say they "got an email from a POI". What exactly does this mean? Is this somebody who they had contact with prior, or is it a professor who chose to work with them based on their fit in their application?