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I received a notification from Vanderbilt today that I was kicked out of a short waitlist and was rejected. The reason is due to the limited offers, they need to first statisfy the research interests of more senior professors. Sad but anyway, not so bad because I was considered.

Mentioned an even more tough thing - Some students deferred their offer last year to this round due to COVID, they will automatically occupy some spots.

Different school have different length of waitlist. They get people off waitlist based on two aspects: 1) how close is your research interest is compared to the one declined his/her offer. 2) Your order in the waitlist. The thing you could do to increase the probability is to contact your POI, showing the strong strong strong willingness to join their program, if your POI is willing to help you, your order can be moved up a little bit.

As far as I know, Northwestern is the only school that taking "being familiar with theories in political science" as the most important thing. For other schools, like NYU, etc, Quant-geek is the easiest way to make one guy stand out of a lot of applicants.

Actually, other than Northwestern, it is important for almost every school. Last year, I just did a simple regression analysis for my writing sample, even the competition is not as strong as this year, I was either rejected or waitlisted by every school I applied. So this year, I forced myself to practice a lot of codings, and self-learnt knowledge of geo-spatial analysis and deep learning, and wrote a very quan writing sample, using thousands lines of python codes and a lot of frontier algorithms, politely asked lots of previous PHD students in computer science, economics, and geography department to point out the mathematic misunderstandings I may initially have in WS, and then self-learnt new knowledge, refine the method and writing, keep doing this for a few months. I have to say it helped a lot, either for a much more thorough understanding of Quan methods, or the final admission results.

This was there long time ago, probably you hided that tag bar at the beginning.

Yes, the CP chair said this to me like a month ago, they said they received 100+ applications for CP and will admit 3.

They only accepted 3 CP this year, wow, nice to meet you

The official info will be sent next week, but they mentioned in detail for my funding through interview. If they did not mention any funding stuff, here is the hint (Mentioned by DGS through interview) if you hold a Master degree, your funding will be 19k, otherwise, 18k for 9 months. Once you passed qualifying exam, it will increase to 20k. Plus, students will be guranteed for 4 yrs of summer fellowship, at least cover their living cost, and your fieldwork will also be supported by the department, but the amount will vary based on the available relevant fundings. My interview is around 15 mins, very chatty,

I applied to NW last year, and they forgot to send me rejection, I asked them like one month later, they checked and responded I was rejected.

5 yrs of funding, 4 yrs of summer fellowship. 18k - 20k per year for 9 months, summer fellowship amount varied, but can cover living fee and fieldwork and no need to do TA/RA.

Yes

Maryland interview is an offer, claimed.

What??? I will have the interview tomorrow morning. Hopefully it is also the case for me, since Maryland is definitely my dream school. And, may I kindly ask how long is the interview?