JBrodsky

Ditto. The coping is underway. ;-)

I wonder if that was that... still no waitlists or rejections?

I'm really curious about that too...

Congrats... fingers still crossed I suppose. :-)

In the case of Princeton, you get your decision right in the email, I believe. I don't think that they refer you to a website.

Good luck everyone. At least the waiting will be over. :-)

Ditto on being antsy!

Just for the Dubin and a couple more, I think; the majority do not have them.

Out of curiosity, did anyone here apply for the Dubin or other fellowships? I'm curious when interviews might happen, not that I have a great shot at one.

I heard from a friend that the decisions are made and admissions are trying to get the decisions out a bit earlier this year... so perhaps early next week? Good luck.

I can't match this poster's tremendous experience, but I'd say she and fliers are on the money. I was very focused on law school after undergrad. I did the right kind of internships, got the right kind of scores. etc. Luckiliy, however, I had a pretty clear idea of the kinds of things that I wanted to do, and spent a lot of time thinking about what I didn't want to do, and along the way I interviewed about 50 lawyers who were doing what in my mind was "interesting" sorts of law. International public and private, interesting litigation, etc. For me, in the end, the debt, relative lack of geographic mobility (particularly internationally), and in the end, the realization that I had no desire to actually practice law dissuaded me. I met a few lawyers who said that law is a great degree no matter what you want to do, teaches you how to analyze, etc. They were a very small minority. Law's great, I think, if you want to practice it. Otherwise, it's a long slog through torts and everything else, and a lot of debt, to "get your foot in the door." Just my two cents. Statistics do indicate that it's a bad time to graduate from law school, though.

It says "MPA/ID HARVARD" under your nickname. I just thought you were in since it only listed one program, rather than an array, and didn't have any of the "Applied.. Waitlisted...Accepted..." categories.. Ha. I didn't notice that it had your season of app on there too; my apologies.

To be fair to Kaka, it appears that he/she is in the MPA/ID program, which is a whole different matter. I was assuming that you were talking about the MPP/MPA. My apologies if not. And Kaka's general point about the strong desirability of work experience is also true. However, HKS, and to a lesser extent, Princeton, both let in a few outstanding people straight from undergrad. I've had friends do it. Some feel they would have gotten more out of it with work experience, but that's a different question.

Congrats to all who got in... I wasn't so fortunate this time. Ah well, on to other summer plans. :-)

Trust me, while it is of course helpful to have such classes, HKS preferences for quant aren't nearly as hard and fast as some of the above posters mentioned. That may be less true for WWS; I'm less familiar with that program. Do such courses matter? Yes. Can you get in without (all of) them? Yes. Feel free to PM me if you want more specifics. What's more realistic is to say that in the absence of work experience, not having such courses may count against you more, or there might not be something on your resume to counterbalance them (yet). However, if you have stellar attributes in other ways, it certainly isn't impossible. It's just difficult for anyone on here to give you meaningful advice without knowing more than merely your scores. Oh, and finance courses aren't substitutes for econ and cal, of course, but they certainly don't hurt.