jnewcomb08

i haven't heard anything yet.

i've been losing myself in the crypto currency world. it has worked! lol.

starting to get worried as i applied to wisconsin and emory as well with no response. i applied to 11 schools, so i just need one. still though...

UCSD is my number one hope! American Politics here.

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Hello everyone. Figured I would throw this in here as I'm halfway through the application process. I posted this over in the political science forum, but I want to get in with my fellow seasoned applicants as well. PROFILE: Type of Undergrad Institution: Top 10 Public University Major(s)/Minor(s): Political Science Undergrad GPA: 3.96 Upper Level/4.00 Major Type of Grad: N/A Grad GPA: N/A GRE (V/Q/AWA): 160/160/5.0 Any Special Courses: Political Science Research Methods Letters of Recommendation: 1 From Department Chair senior thesis adviser who is leader in field; 1 is from Graduate School Coordinator who was my adviser the previous semester while chair was on sabbatical; 1 is from Associate Professor I took 2 classes from Research Experience: Senior Honors Thesis revolved around creating a unique data set from 2016 Florida General Election vote totals and break them down by method of vote to determine a phenomenon that contributes new knowledge to the American Politics field. Teaching Experience: N/A Subfield/Research Interests: American Politics - Citizen Initiative; Voter Behavior; Social Movements Other: Non-traditional 38 year old student; Outstanding 2 Year Scholar Award recipient at upcoming graduation ceremony; Phi Kappa Phi RESULTS: Acceptances($$ or no $$): Waitlists: Rejections: Pending: University of Iowa, Columbia, University of California - San Diego/Riverside/Davis, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Princeton, University of Florida, Emory, Vanderbilt Going to: LESSONS LEARNED: To be determined SOP: Going to keep this for my eyes, but it followed a general track of introducing myself and talking a bit about coming from periods of extreme poverty/uncertainty/sleeping in cars and on friends' couches to turn my entire life around, what influenced me to get involved with political science that included past work experience involving creating a social media platform tasked with giving citizens more direct democratic tools to be more involved with their representative's decisions towards bills they have on their plate, being involved with activism (Occupy Wall Street), what my scholastic road has been like (including transferring to a 4-year program after my AA was completed), my undergraduate research, why I want to apply to whatever school I was applying to, who teaches there and research they have done recently, and what I want to do with a Ph.D.

I hope it gets submitted, but am also hoping if it isn't that it won't be held against me too much. I submitted the rest of the application last week. Why the stress though?!

I'm still waiting 'patiently' for my last recommendation to be submitted in the next 4.5 hours to be in time for my first application deadline of today. he's told me all week, and again today, that he is doing it...but it's still not there. will this mess up my admission chances?

I figured we might as well start posting our stats since the first applications are going to be due soon. Fill this in and let's see what happens next year! Come back and edit your results, so people know how you turned out! PROFILE: Type of Undergrad Institution: Top 10 Public University Major(s)/Minor(s): Political Science Undergrad GPA: 3.96 Upper Level/4.00 Major Type of Grad: N/A Grad GPA: N/A GRE (V/Q/AWA): 160/160/5.0 Any Special Courses: Political Science Research Methods Letters of Recommendation: 1 From Department Chair senior thesis adviser who is leader in field; 1 is from Graduate School Coordinator who was my adviser the previous semester while chair was on sabbatical; 1 is from Associate Professor I took 2 classes from Research Experience: Senior Honors Thesis revolved around creating a unique data set from 2016 Florida General Election vote totals and break them down by method of vote to determine an phenomenon that contributes new knowledge to the American Politics field. Teaching Experience: N/A Subfield/Research Interests: American Politics - Citizen Initiative; Voter Behavior; Social Movements Other: Non-traditional 38 year old student; Outstanding 2 Year Scholar Award recipient at upcoming graduation ceremony; Phi Kappa Phi RESULTS: Acceptances($$ or no $$): Waitlists: Rejections: Pending: University of Iowa, Columbia, University of California - San Diego/Riverside/Davis, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Princeton, University of Florida, Emory, Vanderbilt Going to: LESSONS LEARNED: To be determined SOP: Going to keep this for my eyes, but it followed a general track of introducing myself, what influenced me to get involved with political science that included past work experience and activism, what my scholastic road has been like (including transferring to a 4-year program after my AA was completed), my undergraduate research, why I want to apply to whatever school I was applying to, who teaches there and research they have done recently, and what I want to do with a Ph.D. Good Luck!

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Thank you for taking the time to put that together for me. I know that my GRE is low-ish, definitely on the quant side. That was the second straight time I took it and got that 157, lol. I raised the verbal from 158 to 160. With my classes, senior thesis, and applications that need to get done, I just don't know if I have another GRE in me. I'll have to do some real soul searching on that and if I should really give it another go. Sigh... As for the points you made in section 1, I hear what you are saying...which makes that 157 in quant that much more worrisome.

1. As the title states, I am graduating this December as a non-traditional student from University of Florida and I'm looking to apply this fall to a host of schools. I'm interested in researching direct democracy, but am having trouble easily finding schools that would be a good fit for me to apply to. I have tried finding most cited authors in relevant literature and then researching that school's faculty for graduate programs, but sometimes the person cited isn't listed as a teaching member of that program. 2. I should mention that I'm 38 and went back to school in 2015. I just took my GRE's and got 160v/157q. My upper level GPA is 3.9 since going back to school (26 A's and 1 B in 27 classes) after a dismal showing back in 1997-98 at a high ranked Boston university. I'm really looking at Emory, Vanderbilt, Penn (reach), American, George Washington, University of Calif - Davis, University of Southern California, NYU (reach), Princeton (reach), University of Wisconsin - Mad (reach), and University of Florida as a backup school. I was accepted into the honors program and am writing my senior thesis now on citizen initiatives that will contribute to the field. My adviser is the head of the poli sci department here at UF, and he wrote one of the leading books on direct democracy out there. He is going to write a letter of rec along with our graduate school coordinator who advised me last spring, and finally a tenure track professor is going to write the third letter. What do you think of my odds of getting accepted somewhere because with my age, GRE scores, GPA, letters, and what I hope is a stellar SOP.....I have no idea, lol.