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Hi there, I hope y'all have heard positive news from your schools. I was waitlisted for admission from UT Austin a while ago and recently received a waitlist for funding from OSU (admitted already). While having other options, I would still like to go to one of these two schools. So I'm curious to know how likely it is to be moved out of the waitlist for these two schools and if there is anything I can do to improve my chances at this point? Thanks!

Thanks for your reply and sorry for my misuse of words. I am also an applicant to the political science department and definitely don't mean to offend this field. It's just that I had this question for a some time and forgot to change the languege after reading an article yesterday on different perceptions between hard science and humanities departments in PhD interview.

Can anyone be more specific about how do we make of interviews? My understanding is that humanities departments (including political science) are cautious about interviewing candidates than hard science fields. In my personal research of schools, almost all schools don't specify that they have an interview process, and many explicitly say they don't do interviews. But at the same time, I know a couple of schools do interview interested candidates (except that they don't mention it on the website). One of the schools told me that it doesn't "systematically interview" candidates, but it's up to the faculty members to do that. So can we say not all admitted applicants are interviewed? If so, what kind of admitted applicants are not interviewed? Thanks guys and really appreciate your thoughts and comments