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  1. From what I've heard, as long as your new scores demonstrate an improvement, they don't care what your previous scores are.
  2. Thanks for the suggestion. I think my biggest concern with doing that is that I'm just beginning to be comfortable with polisci rigor. I don't learn convention well, and I'd hate to start all over again. I have, however, considered looking at psychology departments. Hopefully this summer will be long enough to decide.
  3. It's been a while since you posted, but you may have some testing anxiety. Look up some coping suggestions for that. It can be fixed! There's not a lot you can do in the strict GRE environment, but see what you can do.
  4. Good luck on your applications this time around, OP. Special reader's thanks to the response about trying to expand your interests to meet more potential advisors. That sounds like a reasonable idea. It's always better to think about being flexible and demonstrating that, I think, than suggesting that if that professor can't take additional students, that you'll be hung out to dry.
  5. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look. Midlarsky sounds familiar... Ah, yeah, Killing Trap. That's on the list. I should fast-track that one. Actually, I'm unfortunately promiscuous with my source material. Well. Not unfortunate for me; it's really given me amazing insights. But, it doesn't help me find people to work with. Most of the people I've really loved are in history or social psychology. I am certainly not. I tried reading through my genocide conference schedule, but I didn't find much. I met a professor there I really want to work with, and who said he'd love to work with me, but he's an assistant at a satellite at UBC and he can't sponsor me. Ethnic conflict is huge, even in IR, which is where I'm finding most of my contacts. I will need to work with comparative, and it will be very helpful to know people in that. I think what I'm really looking at is somewhere in between, because I am so interested in the international aspects of it, particularly with the legal aspects (which I'm so unprepared to study). But, as it is so (dare i say intimate) an interaction, relatively, one cannot work without sufficient inclusion of internal policy. I've done well enough at my program. I'm a clinical underachiever, but my papers reflect good scholarship, even if they need to be tightened. My advisor did his MA at Rutgers, so that might be a good shot. I'm going to retake the GRE because I didn't need much for the MA and so I didn't prepare at all. Question. When you turn in writing samples, do they generally want graded samples, or can I re-edit them and continue to work on them? I'm sure that's the stupidest question ever. And you've been very helpful, if simply by reminding me that I'm not completely out of my mind. I do forget. Thanks.
  6. I've been looking at prospective doctoral programs for about two years (and unsuccessfully applied to one). At the end of this summer, I will have a master's in political science from a complete no-name. It wasn't really a good idea, but it was better than taking thetime off after my undergraduate studies knowing full well I wouldn't be any more prepared after a break to decide where to go. Given my current struggle in finding a program, I clearly made the correct choice. My degree has, however, resulted in three conference presentations in three different fields and built a love for the way IR researchers think. I have narrowed my focus to interactions of different political and social entities and policy levels in the cause and resolution of genocide. Not the most popular bit of study in IR. I could forego the whole thing and apply at the 3-5 genocide studies programs, but I'd really like to get a job someday. I think having a broader degree and a specialization might be the better bet on this than hoping for a genocide post. I have gotten reasonably good at knowing whether a department has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for me, but it's very difficult to know where to look. I've scanned the rankings list, and I have an idea of where I'd *like* to apply. But I'd like to get some input on whether I am well-aimed. I've been moderately interested in UPitt, LSU, UBC, Rochester (I had this crazy idea once...), Illinois U-C, and U Washington. I would love to go to WashU , but there's really no one there who would be at all interested in me. My advisor recommended UGA, I think. I'm aware that I have to "settle" for faculty involved in conflict, peace, and/or human rights, and I'm comfortable with that. I know better than to bet my career on finding someone who'd be a perfect match. So, since I've been reading here for a while and you all seem to have your heads on straight and are clearly much better aware of what is out there, I thought I'd post the query. Thanks for reading. Be civil.
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