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    Harvard Kennedy MPP 2020

    in Government Affairs Forum

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    2 minutes ago, keurimja said:

    Well, there weren't any blog posts on the 27th or 28th of February either, so maybe this was a false alarm and there just won't be any blog updates today.

    I don't know... there was a post yesterday addressing the anxiety and letting us know it wasn't coming out yesterday. They have to know by not posting one today that is giving false hope. I doubt they'd be that careless. I still think it's today.

    Columbia SIPA MPA 2020

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    6 minutes ago, GradSchoolGrad said:

    I looked at SIPA once upon a time for a domestic policy based program. I will admit that every program has its own nuance, so I would check in about what MIA is about. However, the people I knew at SIPA (including someone who once worked there) highlighted how school was just where people went to class + did some projects, but their social lives + community was based upon their legacy NYC friends, and this was the norm. I will say that my friends were purposely looking for a school that made it easy to continue their NYC lives. 

    I decided against Fletcher (and I went to classes there and have two really good friends that went there) pretty quickly for a very me reason. That is, I don't want to be in an academic environment where I would isolated from other disciplines. Tufts Fletcher simply doesn't have other grad programs geographically nearby or collaboration with undergrads (actually undergrads pretty much despise Fletcher people). Yes, true Fletcher is part of the consortium with MIT and Harvard so you can take classes there, but given the geographic distance + logistics, there isn't true collaboration. I really enjoyed leading, managing, and coaching undergrads in grad school, and I felt like we made each other better. Admittedly, SAIS has this challenge as well, but the bottom is that you are in DC and dong work with real world institutions super easily buttresses that pretty easily.  

    If any school has a weak (or at least very hyper clique community) that is McCourt. For admitted students day (and I was part of it once), they bring on the smiles and anointed popular kids (or popular kids of the moment). The most successful people had to strike it out very much on their own because McCourt provided inadequate institutional support/management/community. 

    Thanks for this-- do you have any insight into SIPA vs. NYU Wagner specifically? I'm doing an MPA program, so wondering if NYU is better suited for domestic policy??

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