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Not recommending at JD for anything is an extreme position. I excised the rest of your post from that quote because I agreed with it. Would you not recommend a JD for someone who is considering legal academia but who thinks he/she might be happy practicing if that potential path falls through? Do you think that practicing law is a terrible safety net relative to the available safety nets for poli sci PhD students? What if OP or some other person wants to teach in a law faculty instead of a poli sci faculty? I'm not sure your chances of placing into a TT law faculty job out of HYS Law are significantly worse than your chances of placing into a TT poli sci job out of CHYMPS. But yes, I agree that doing a JD just to "take a few classes in law" is moronic. Also OP should note that you can usually just audit/sit in on law classes as a university grad student with no problem. So there's that.

This is bad advice. Still worth it to do a JD at HYS or at least half funded (if not full) at CCN. Below that, maybe not worth it. For academia? Going to be tough, but stick with HYS or full funding at CCN (Rubenstein at Chi, Hamilton at Columbia, Furman at NYU) and hope for a high level CoA or Supreme Court Clerkship. For poli sci faculty academia? Honestly just try to get a JD-PhD at H, Y, S, or maybe like NYU/Columbia-Princeton. Otherwise don't bother really.

Odd. Still nothing here.

Did you ask Harvard for confirmation or have they already posted it to your application page?

Aw damn. Are they e-mailing?

Another Harvard Govt troll on the results page? They don't call I believe.

Guess so. Either way I'm saying Mon or Tues for H bomb.

Somebody on the results page reported that his app had disappeared on Harvard's Apply page. Mine is still there though. Anyone else getting this?

No Harvard love today. Guessing early next week.

So is Harvard the last hold out here? Seems like everything else is silent...

Doorkeeper, are you theory, CP, or what?

Would be pretty crazy to hear this week, but I'm guessing next Tuesday.

Did you get a no from your POI or something?

That is a terribly organized chart.

Its really terrible. To be honest it made me hate the department. It wasn't just the stress of the weekend, its that I sort of think the idea of it is incredibly insulting and arrogant in the first place. PM me for more info.

Did anyone get an invite to the Princeton NES interview weekend thing? For what its worth, I did this a few years ago and it was one of the most miserable weekends of my life.

Another troll posting Harvard Govt admits or is that legit?

Except that a PhD isn't really a job in itself. It's a (hopefully) low-paid apprenticeship that is designed to prepare you for a job that you statistically are unlikely to ever get. The griping doesn't come from the nature of the work (as it does in most workplaces/careers). It comes from the massive gap between expectations and the reality of the job market.

This. A million times this.

True though that may be, I'm just suggesting that maybe the big difference between gradcafe and psr is that everybody there is a poli sci PhD student and nobody here is a poli sci PhD student except for the one guy in this thread warning people not to do a poli sci PhD.

You'd probably have a better quality of life...

They're angry, bitter husks of former humans precisely because they are poli sci PhDs. Y'all, conversely, are not. Think about it.

You guys are getting owned over at poliscirumors: http://www.poliscirumors.com/topic/overheard-on-gradcafe

Oh good just noticed a typo in my CV. Yayyyyyy.

Personally I want to see them exchange dick pics.