Clintarius

Hi all! I'm a European student admitted to a political science degree on the East Coast. My university seems to be planning to hold in-person courses in the fall, but I don't yet know when the US borders will open. The uncertainty includes, but is not limited, to questions such as: When if at all will the US let us fly in in the fall? If I have to start remotely (from France), how difficult will it be considering the time difference, the fact that half of my cohort is studying together but I'm not, etc? I won 't receive the PhD stipend until I set foot in the US. Which means that as long as I'm in France I'll have to live at my parents'. How difficult is it gonna be to study as intensely as is required for grad courses when my family and siblings are around? My uni is subsidising housing for us, but it looks like if I choose student housing I'll have to pay for the whole term regardless of when I'm able to fly in, which may cost several k USD. Should I do it? Are some of you facing the same situation? What are you planning to cope with the stress associated to it, or to mitigate the difficulties arising?

The open house events I was invited to are being cancelled one after the other because of the virus. I'm sad I was so excited

Same question (although male) + is it feasible to find anything in NYC at a cost similar to that of Columbia housing?

I'm not sure that telling them you are on multiple waitlists with no offer would work in your favor, but I've been told that sending them a personalized email stating that they are your top choice, and that you will therefore accept their offer if they take you off the wait list may increase your chances. That's because a lot of students will only decline their offers last minute before April 15th, so the schools want to be sure that if they make a new offer, to meet their goals in terms of incoming students, it will be accepted.

Thanks! I'm CP

Same! I'm so happy!

Congratulations! Was this one through a generic email from the DGS?

I don't have enough space to upload anything here or on the other post anymore so here's a link to the decision dates data since 2012. Only includes schools from the top 100 USNWR. It shows fewer posts from Harvard/Princeton/NYU than the reality because I filtered with "political science" and not "government" or "politics". ?

Yeah I agree. The treemap also interestingly shows how the admission rate on the GC result page is much higher than the true value (which makes sense, I guess most people prefer sharing their successes), and that can make people feel insecure about rejections even though they are in reality part of a much larger majority.

Hi all! I've been stuck home because of a health-related issue, so (in addition to watching a lot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine) I scraped the tables from the Grad Cafe political science results page since its beginning in 2006 and here are a few things I thought I'd share! I'm trying to set up a GitHub page to make the scraping code and data accessible if you guys want to play with it. Disclaimers: I only used data that matches "political science" and "PhD". So 1) these things don't apply to Master's degree applicants, and 2) the data is "biased against" (includes less posts from) Harvard, Princeton, NYU, etc. because they use other degree names (Government, Politics, etc.). I only kept US schools that are in the top 100 based on the current USNWR, because cleaning the data would have taken me too much time otherwise. This is not an assessment of the quality of any school! I know that things change fast, so the data from early years might not mean much. This is not meant to give any lesson, I just thought it might be interesting to some people. ? Data is from this morning in Europe (Feb 22nd, 2020). First: the average grades since 2006 (for the GRE, it only includes years with the new system): Average reported GPA: 3.75 Average Verbal GRE: 163.4 Average Quant GRE: 160.9 Average Writing GRE: 3.8 Second: the distribution of the posts between A/I/U and decisions: Third: the distribution of the post between schools. I don't have enough space left so I'll upload these pictures in a comment. Any thoughts based on this? I can also look at other metrics if you guys think it'd be interesting! (Next thing planned is visualising the dates at which decisions are received). PS 1: thanks again for all the support and positivity on this forum! ? PS 2: there probably are a some coding mistakes, so once again I'm not pretending this gives any lesson!

Thanks! That's helpful.

Faculty, students, and applicants constantly speak of the top 10 schools, top 25, etc, is it an informally accepted ranking? Is it specifically referring to the USNWR ranking or another of the sort? I'm never too sure of what is meant ?

Hi! First post but I've been following this thread for a while and I really appreciate the support and the positivity! I received an email from the DGS at NYU Politics yesterday to let me know I'm waitlisted. Anyone in the same boat? I'm trying to gauge the size of the waitlist. I'm an international student and I've been admitted to UCSD as well so far (rejections from Princeton/Stanford). Additionally, I was wondering if you guys know roughly when most programs start. I've seen a few dates but I'm struggling to get a good idea of it, and need to notify my boss about when I'll be leaving my current organization.