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    Welcome to the 2016-17 cycle!

    in Political Science Forum

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    Political science undergraduate majors are highly disconnected from grad school. I reckon that programs don't want to alienate potential majors by making it methodologically strenuous. Virtually any poli sci major can get through by only having to take one vague 'empirical methods' course. You may have to take a quantitative requirement to get your degree as a university-wide requirement but these are rarely very specific.

    The only ones who have any training are those who actively sought it out.

    That being said, I really don't think you need a lot to really prepare yourself for graduate studies in poli sci...differential and integral calculus, intro to stats, and maybe linear algebra + discrete math would be ample to have a good foundation going in.

    Discouraged

    in Coursework, Advising, and Exams

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    I'll just keep this short:

    While having an adviser that cares, provides feedback, and generally goes to bat for you is nice...graduate school is also a time to learn how to be independent. No one is going to hold your hand anymore, you need to figure a lot of stuff out on your own - put something together that shows hard work and polish - and ask for feedback and rinse and repeat. No one - even the best advisers - are going to provide the details or nuances of academic work at this stage.

    going above a TA's head

    in Teaching

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    Any professor worth their salt will stand up for their TAs and always delegate the first line of defense regarding grades to the TA.

    So yes, it can be frustrating...but as fuzzy pointed out, it's not always cut and dry they are trying to 'game the system.' Don't worry about it, doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

    Welcome to the 2016-17 cycle!

    in Political Science Forum

    Posted · Edited by Comparativist

    Honestly, I think the best approach is to go to work. Although, this may be easier for those of us still currently in bachelor's/master's programs. Personally, I have a master's thesis to complete by the spring and I have a lot of work to do on that. Also applying to APSA for this upcoming deadline while working on my working paper that is stemming from my thesis work. In turn, for me...'waiting' is not really that stressful because, well, I am not actually waiting. I have too many things to do to sit there and wait.

    We also have to keep in mind that for most of us (there are a handful of programs that give results in late Jan. but not many), we probably aren't going to hear back anything until Feb. So there is no point in stressing about it. Sure, we will all be thinking about it, it's inevitable, but we can limit our stress by just accepting that there isn't much value in really focusing on it until results actually start coming in.

    And for the love of god, stop looking over your application materials; there is nothing to be gained there and if you worked hard enough on the front end you should be comfortable with them and be proud of what you did.

    Welcome to the 2016-17 cycle!

    in Political Science Forum

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    I scored 162V, 153Q, 6.0AW the first time and recently 159V, 158Q, 6.0AW. Do you guys think I should just send both of the scores? The upside is that it's nice to show that I can hit the 90th percentile in verbal and it shows some growth in math skills. The downside is that it tells them that I did score only 50th percentile on math once (two years ago). 

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