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Placement, mentorship, curriculum, professional development opportunities, collaboration with faculty, teaching opportunities, summer/research/conference travel funding could all be issue you would like to talk about depending your priorities. Also intellectual climate of the program/university, diversity, methodological variety, availability of interdisciplinary collaboration with other programs or institutes in the university might be things to talk about.

I got an email from a POI: Thank you for your interest in the graduate program in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This year we received 75 applications for our Ph.D. program, and our goal is to yield an entering class of 8-10 students. This means that we were unable to admit many high-quality applicants. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer you admission. Although we regret having to share this news with you, we appreciate your interest in our program and wish you success in your future studies.