NPSIA grad
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Yeah me too. I imagine we all did for the most part so I thought I would share it as good news
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This may only be useful for folks like myself who did undergrad studies at universities where it is a 4.33 scale and 3 or 4 credits courses - I found myself wondering how everything translates over.
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I forgot to mention this little bit of info that might be useful for aspiring MUNKs, NPSIANs, or GSPIANs I emailed all 3 program's admissions last year to inquire about how they calculate GPA's for assessment. Here are the responses in case anyone else was curious: MUNK: We look at your final year GPA as being the most reflective of how well you will do in the program which is why we consider it more important than your CGPA. To calculate your final year GPA we look at your last ten senior level courses taken at a 300-400 level. If you have any 100 or 200 level courses they will not be included in the final year calculation. NPSIA: Essentially what I do is start at your most recent courses and count back until I have a total of 10 credits (typically the last 20 single semester course) and will also calculate your overall GPA and whichever is higher is what we will use as the GPA for the assessment. GSPIA: The Graduate Studies office calculates the admission average using the most recent 60 credits which are usually the last two years.
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Most def. Also I think the European migrant and refugee crisis and the driving factors behind it inspired quite a few people to pursue IA through their grad studies.
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In my letter to NPSIA I wrote international 'refuge' (not refugee) protection and assistance :S at least I caught it before submitting my letter to GSPIA
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Never read your SOP/LOI after it has already been submitted. Just don't do it! Yeah, I mentioned profs/courses and linked it to my educational/career goals.
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Can you share why you are leaning towards GSPIA? NPSIA was always my 1st choice but lately I have been looking more into GSPIA and I am undecided. I've heard all of the cases made for NPSIA and I'd be interested to hear from anyone who ranks GSPIA as a first choice...
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Me too. I am also crippled with self-doubt about getting accepted into at least one of the two schools I applied at. If I get rejections from both I am just going to go hang upside down in my closet like a bat until next year's round of admissions.
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Same. Mailed everything in hard copy as instructed. Turns out it was OK to email the documents directly (except for the transcripts of course).
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Uploading supporting docs to NPSIA right now - forgot that while it is only 10:30 in Vancouver it is while past the deadline in Ottawa. Guess I should probably just go start a new thread for fall 2018.
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I chose conflict, international org, and I security studies. It was really hard to make a decision.
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I applied to NPSIA and GSPIA - my only other consideration was MUNK but I wasn't particularly interested in either of the stream options. Plus I would prefer to move to and work in Ottawa. What clusters did you guys pick for NPSIA?
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For NPSIA - I don't think you need to explicitly state it. In my letter I am identifying the issue area(s) I want to address and then saying something along the lines of 'one possible project/direction that would allow me to address X Y and Z is ...' just to narrow it down and show some focus. But I think you can choose your route (thesis or essay) once you have already started the program. If I recall correctly, I think I even saw a note somewhere on the site that says students should talk to an adviser if they are undecided about which route to take. This would imply that you don't need to make up your mind (i.e. state it in your letter of intent) until way later. But, I could be completely wrong about this and I could have read that note on a different university's site as I am applying to a few schools. So if you hear otherwise please post on here!
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I think it is safe to assume that you will have your CC access on Monday morning, Tuesday latest. As long as you have the documents ready to upload you should be good.
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I would call admissions ASAP and inquire about that. I know it takes a bit of time, X amount of business days, for access to CC to come through.
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This is terrible news. I am wondering if I can state that I will acquire level 1 knowledge of French before beginning the program. Definitely time to pick up that phone again.
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From my understanding NPSIA does require all documents to be uploaded by the deadline. There is also a note somewhere that advises applicants to not wait until the last minute to upload their documents because the traffic can cause some problems/delays.
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I just phoned in to confirm this - it is true!
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Wait ... is being able to speak French an admission requirement for GSPIA? Did I seriously miss that completely?
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The above comments are worrying me. I am sending my documents to GSPIA today from Vancouver to have them arrive on Monday the 30th. Maybe I am cutting it too close if GSPIA takes forever to open their mail?
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I am applying to NPSIA. Almost ready to submit all the docs. NPSIA is my 1st choice
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Same. My letter of intent is still a skeleton draft sitting in a bunch of professors' mailboxes waiting for feedback. Spent the afternoon today lurking around the pol sci department trying to 'randomly' bump into those professors to ask if they had a chance to read it. After an hour I gave up and just sat in my car in the campus parkade imagining up various 'what-now' scenarios where I get rejected from each of the schools I am applying to.
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So is anybody else a nervous wreck yet or just me?
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Thanks for the response on that. So you didn't send in any docs by mail - I was under the impression that for GSPIA, hard copies of all required documents had to be sent in by mail?
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Hey all, for GSPIA, can anybody confirm if the required documents that we mail in include hard copies of our reference letters, or do our referees submit those directly online, or both?
