BTF

This is the real play. The decision to spend 50k for a general policy degree with little to no funding in an incredibly expensive city with similar placement rates as several other policy masters programs will never make sense to me.

Oh, sorry, yes, it affects OSAP. Just not admissions funding.

If you win OGS, Carleton will add that funding on-top of your existing funding package. The 520 hour rule thing isnt an issue. There are no reporting requirements. I held OGS and worked over 520 hours in a semester, Carleton can only track your Carleton hours (TA/RAing), not whatever you do outside of school. Important note: this rule is per semester. So over the duration of the award (1 year) you can work 1560 hours, about the equivalent of a full time job. Goodluck on your OGS application!

Unsure what this year's tuition will be but here are last year's tuition amounts, I don't imagine it'll increase by much: https://carleton.ca/studentaccounts/tuition-fees/su-gr/f21w22-gr-dom/

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Lol, ask for more. Or, call the opposing school and explain your deadline to accept another offer if you dont hear from them in two days

Call the school with the deadline and ask for an extension while you wait for other offers to come.

Happy to chat about Carleton vs. GPSIA. Feel free to send me a message and we can set something up.

Call and ask about it

Ask for an extension because you're waiting on other schools. Alternatively, call the other schools and ask about your pending application since you already have an offer but would like to go to their school if admitted.

Thanks man, if you have any other questions feel free to message me.

1. When should I submit the application? and are applications processed on a rolling basis? Submit before the funding deadline, usually before the hard deadline. Some schools use rolling admissions and others do not, I submitted applications (Carleton, UofT, and Queens) in November and received offers in late February (Carleton, Queens) and early March (UofT). 2. Should international students go to Carleton's MPPA program? Depends. Carleton's MPPA places most students in federal public service and some outside the federal public service (like myself). Other schools, like UofT, place a lot of their students in the private sector, well, more than Carleton's MPPA program. Do your research about each school's placement rate and where recent graduates typically end up (use LinkedIn to find this information). Coop is one of the few ways international students can get into the federal public service, not that its what you're after, but it's something to consider.

Not Mackenzie, but I can answer the same questions. 1. How has your experience been thus far? Mixed, but mostly positive. Some courses are rough, some are average, some are amazing. Most professors were lovely. 2. Do you think scores alone will form the majority of the decision for admission? Example: If a competitive average is 78%, but one gets 90% or close to 4.00, is it as clear cut as that? GPA matters, anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. Is it the sole admission factor? No. Does it play a big role? Yes. It plays an even bigger role for funding decisions. 3. Since you've been accepted, could you provide some data as to what sort of profiles are accepted (With respect to your cohort)? Most people work for the government, some work for non-profit/think tanks (like myself), and a few go to private sector or pursue more schooling. A lot of people come to program from varying disciplines (I suppose more so from poli sci than anything else though) and experiences. Most people have above an 80% GPA in their last two years. Meeting that cutoff is important to being a competitive applicant. Yes, people get in with lower but far more get in with above. Be in the latter category.

I'll be applying for the first time.

These scholarships are all a shit show. You seem to have a competitive application. Who knows

Yes, ask. You're turning down $17,500. Did you get OGS at Carleton? Source: got SSHRC and OGS at Carleton

Email the law school(s) you hope to attend and ask. As for your GPA question, the only way to increase it is to take more courses and do well.

- Starting sentences with adverbs is for noobs. - You're applying for grad school, write in full paragraphs. - Your response doesn't address the entire prompt. There was no examination of the argument its implications. You just provided a laundry list of some of the assumptions. - Define your acronyms and be consistent in their use. Vice President (VP). Pick one but define it first

You won a scholarship, not a grant. Here are the regulations for your SSHRC scholarship. Yes, this a NSERC webpage. Yes, this webpage is for SSHRC and CIHR scholarships too. See the table of contents' second section. https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/Guides-Guides/TriRTA-TriBFR_eng.asp#value

Where does it say SSHRC funding can only be used research expenses?

1. Did you have to learn Tableau or any other software for any MPPA course? No to Tableau and depends on the research methods prof you have, some might teach Nvivo, R, or SPSS. 2. How much readings are involved per courses per week? And, how much writing (assignments - group/individual) is involved beside the final exams in courses? Depends on the course. Seminar courses are more reading and writing than lecture courses. From my experience, the usual seminar course is about 6-8000 words of writing and about 100 pages of readings a week. Lecture courses are highly variable but always less than seminar courses. 3. How the gradings are in courses - as in profs are too hard or moderate in grading or depends on the course? Most students earn either a B+ or A- as final course grades regardless or professor. Some students earn higher and some lower. The grade you earn is largely dependent on your ability to write a concise and coherent argument and make useful class discussion contributions.

you took an unfunded PhD in a different country? Seems sketchy.

Several students get admitted without funding. Each cohort is different, maybe you had a better application compared to others last time around and maybe the opposite happened this year. I've heard this year has been a bit more competitive than other cohorts as more people are applying. You can always call and ask the admin about it.

Email and ask.

Yes