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I do not have any specific information about Delaware but I am sure that unlike UCF, it is an established program. I do not think it makes a big difference whether you get a security studies degree or political science but if you are interested in getting a job in intelligence organization, I believe UCF is a better option. However, given the limited resources UCF has, if you want to find a job in academia, I would suggest you avoid UCF. A friend of mine who is currently a PhD student at UCF told me that their method courses are not that good and students are only offered 3 methodology classes (1 qual and 2 quant).

UCF does not have a political science program. The Ph.D. program at UCF is called security studies and probably for this reason, it is not even in the ranking. They have OK faculty and three years of funding.

This is a great profile and logically should get you into a top 10 or at least top 20 program. I think there is something wrong with your SOP.

The department will probably arrange a meeting between you and profs you mentioned in your sop. If they did not, you can ask them. With regard to your chances of admission, I believe if you did not have a chance, they would not invite you at all. I think you have a good chance. You can ask DGS about waitlist- whether it is short.

You don't have to really publish it. Even if you get a revise and resubmit request, it still is better than doing a second master for 30k

Try to publish something in a peer-reviewed journal and apply for an internship. They will help you more than an additional master's degree.

HAHA! Thanks Maybe people haven't decided yet

Many accepted applicants are going to decline their offers and many others are waitlisted. So having information on declined offers could be really helpful for those who are waitlisted. Please post here if you have declined an offer to help others make their decisions! This will be great if you share school name, subfield, funding situation, and type of funding with others. School Name Subfield Funded/not funded Type of funding (fellowship or assistantship or combination)

I don't know about your GRE score but here is some useful information about the average quant score for some of the doctoral programs over: UCSD: 162Chicago: 158Wisconsin–Madison: 159George Washington: 157Vanderbilt: 155Iowa: 157Binghamton: 155Washington University in St. Louis: 162Notre Dame: 158

I would call it a polite rejection

Does an offer without a funding package mean a polite rejection? The letter sent by DGS says that "...department's ability to provide funding is in flux" and that they will contact me immediately as soon as a funding package is available. I was wondering if anyone could interpret it

Congrats! They interviewed me but I didn't get any phone call. I assume a bitter rejection.

Anyone claiming ASU admits?

Is it possible a school asks for missing materials after an interview and then reject you? I mean, the school I applied to asked me for missing materials but I haven't heard from them after a week.

OK, now I looked at the results. UA sent some out a few days ago but I feel the next wave is coming next week.

As far as I know, they just interviewed a couple of applicants.

Next week gonna be wild. Northwestern, Arizona, Arizona State, and probably Washington.

One of the schools that I have applied to gave me an institutional email address. In other words, now I have an institutional email address of this university! Do universities usually do it? This seems a bit unusual to me.

Does anyone know why some applicants are offered an interview others are not?

Can you please tell us your sub-field? I've also applied to UA but haven't received any email yet.

You mean the application dashboard? Mine says it is under review. I expect a rejection letter though!

It becomes more confusing when the email ends with "Please know that you may or may not be invited to participate in a Skype meeting with the faculty committee. If requested, you will be contacted via email..."

The following ranking is based on a research conducted by Robert Oprisko in 2013. This study looks at every person listed as assistant, associate, or full professor during the 2012-2013 academic year. It is based on placement record.* *This does not take cohort size into account. As such, percentage of students placed isn't represented here. Top Political Science Programs in Placing Ph.D.s in Tenure-Track Jobs at Research Universities Rank (Total) University Total Ph.D. Alumni Placed Total Placements of Assistant Professors 1 Harvard U. 272 46 2 U. of California at Berkeley 216 45 3 U. of Michigan 170 32 4 Yale U. 165 27 5 U. of Chicago 155 21 6 Columbia U. 139 36 7 Stanford U. 137 43 8 Princeton U. 118 26 9 UCLA 100 31 10 MIT 93 11 11 U. of Wisconsin at Madison 93 18 12 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 91 25 13 Cornell U. 87 24 14 U. of Minnesota - Twin Cities 84 17 15 (tie) Indian U. at Bloomington 74 12 15 (tie) Ohio State U. 74 22 17 U. of Rochester 64 16 18 (tie) Duke U. 61 23 18 (tie) Northwestern U. 61 11 20 Washington U. in St. Louis 56 12 21 U. of California at San Diego 53 25 22 Johns Hopkins U. 52 12 23 (tie) U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 47 12 23 (tie) U. of Texas at Austin 47 15 25 New York U. 42 11 26 (tie) U. of Iowa 41 9 27 Michigan State U. 41 10 28 U. of Virginia 40 7 29 Syracuse U. 39 6 30 Florida State U. 38 17

One thing that I think I need to add is the email says that "this experience is not mandatory, and you will not be penalized if you choose not to or are unable to participate in a Skype meeting." Why?? I really don't get it.

Hello folks. What does it mean if you get an email from a department you have applied to, saying that the faculty admissions committee may request a Skype interview next week? Is it a kind of email that is automatically sent to every applicant??