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Recordings from the 2011 admitted students open house are available on youtube. Watching these wouldn't be the same experience as going in person, but it might be the next best thing. I think they have them in mp3 form somewhere, in case you don't feel like sitting in front of a youtube screen for hours and hours on end.

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I would not hang all my employment hopes on the SAIS career fair. It tends to attract a lot of IDEV and defense contractor firms, which is great if that's what you're interested in. A lot of the companies that hire SAIS students do not have the recruiting budget to hold sessions in every city at every major graduate program. A lot of times you will have to do some reasearch to identify your target companies/sectors and seek them out yourself. It's extra legwork, but doable with the right networking skills. Once they have their foot in the door, SAIS students can often draw on their coursework and experiences to talk themselves into a position. Career services does a fairly good job of aggregating job announcements and resume drops into the career database. That said, many many many more opportunities are found through SAIS career club postings, referells from SAIS classmates and alums, networking in DC, and participating in career treks. That being said: Career Fair Attendees, Fall 2010 Abt Associates ACDI/VOCA Altegrity Risk International BAE Systems Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton CARANA Corporation Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) DAI Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) FBI Homeland Security Institute International Resources Group (IRG) International Republican Institute MicroVest Capital Management Nathan Associates Inc. NNSA OPIC Pact Peace Corps RAND Corporation Save the Children Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Taylor-DeJongh Tetra Tech ARD, Inc. The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) The Avascent Group U.S. Department of State (DOS) - Foreign & Civil Service U.S. Department of State (DOS) - UN Employment U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) USAID/Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance and USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives

Employment outcomes for the last 6 years. The admissions staff isn't trying to hide things from you. If anything, the confusing SAIS website redesign is preventing prospective students from finding the information that is published and available. http://legacy2.sais-jhu.edu/career-services-content/pdf/2007SAIS_Emplyment_Outcomes.pdf http://legacy2.sais-jhu.edu/career-services-content/pdf/SAIS_Employment_Outcomes08.pdf http://legacy2.sais-jhu.edu/career-services-content/pdf/SAIS_EmpOutlk09.pdf http://legacy2.sais-jhu.edu/career-services-content/pdf/SAIS_EmpOutlk10.pdf http://legacy2.sais-jhu.edu/career-services-content/pdf/2011_EmplymentOutcomes.pdf http://www.jhubc.it/ADMISSIONSBLOGDOCUMENTS/SAIS_EOR_ClassOf2012%20%281%29.pdf

I don't know if you're interested in an IR/International Affairs-type degree, but the Energy, Resources and Environment concentration at SAIS is good, and they have a rigorous economics component to the degree with optional economics specializations. http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/functional-studies/ere/index.htm

@dan451 Why did you eliminate SAIS?

Hey Gazelle, have you received information on IR/PS fellowship awards or financial aid? I am getting a little frustrated that I still haven't received my admitted students packet with this information.

Are you sure about this? A quick Google search found this article on establishing California residence for fee purposes from the UCSB website: Intent: Demonstrate through objective documentation that your physical presence was coupled with the intent to make California your permanent home. Intent is evaluated as an independent element of residence, separate from physical presence, and is demonstrated by establishing residential ties in California, and relinquishing ties to the former place of residence. Physical presence within California solely for educational purposes does not constitute the establishment of California residence regardless of the length of stay. The physical presence requirement (above) will be extended until the student can demonstrate a concurrence of both physical presence and intent for one full year. Establishing Intent to Become a California Resident Relevant indicia that contribute to the demonstration of a student's intent to make California the permanent home include, but are not limited to, the following: Registering to vote and voting in California elections; Designating a California permanent home address on all records (e.g., school, employment, military, etc.); Obtaining a California Driver License or California Identification Card; Obtaining a California vehicle registration; Paying California income taxes as a resident (including taxes on income earned outside California from the date California residence was established); Maintaining a California residence in which personal belongings are kept; Licensing for professional practice in California; and, The absence of these indicia in places other than California during any period for which residence in California is asserted. Source: http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/intent-indep.htm

Hi Energie, Is there any way to petition a concentration change into Energy, Resources and Environment if I did not specify this as my intended concentration on the SAIS admissions application? I was originally planning on being China Studies, but I have decided I would rather pursue a functional concentration in Energy Policy.

Hey gazelle, I'm in a similar situation as yourself. I have a background in Asian studies, and have lived in Beijing for the last couple of years working in non-IR private sector fields. I am extremely interested in international energy policy, but obviously would be approaching the subject without the benefit of an engineering background. I am considering both IR/PS and SIPA (as well as SAIS) for international affairs graduate work next year. IR/PS has a very strong China studies faculty, led by Susan Shirk (China security studies) and Barry Naughton (China economics). I appreciate the small class size at IR/PS, and the admissions people have been very accessible and responsive to my questions. The big downside to IR/PS is that they don't have a policy concentration in international energy policy. SIPA has the Energy and Environment functional concentration, with an extremely quantitatively rigorous International Energy Management and Policy track. SAIS has the Energy, Resource, and the Environment concentration, which looks strong as well, but perhaps more conceptual than quantitative. I am most interested in policy and finance dealing with renewable energy, cleantech, energy efficiency, and energy infrastructure. I am a little concerned that the SAIS and SIPA (SIPA, especially) programs are nearly entirely focused on traditional energy resources (petro, coal, natural gas), and do not put enough emphasis on renewables, carbon emissions trading, energy efficiency, etc. Do you have any insight on SIPA's IEMP program? Would you be more interested in studying energy policy or Japan/E.Asia regional issues?

I am interested in studying international energy policy at a foreign affairs school next year, and am weighing my options between the SAIS M.A. in IR with a functional concentration in Energy, Resource and the Environment, -or- the SIPA MIA with the International Energy Management and Policy track within the Energy and the Environment policy concentration. Can anyone comment on the strengths and weaknesses of these two programs?

Congratulations, Gazelle! The stipulations of your provisional admission should be viewable by signing into the UCSD Graduate Admissions portal and clicking the button for "Check Application Status." At least, this is how I learned about the missing documents that made my admission provisional.

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