poliscihopeful2021

Anybody here claiming a UCLA waitlist yet?

Congratulations!!! How were you contacted and what time exactly?

Congratulations! Was this the Social Policy PhD or PhD in Government?

Aaaaaaaand there's the Stanford rejection as well. Rough Monday.

Claiming a rejection at Yale. Oh well, at least the cycle is wrapping up. 1a/3w/5r/4p

Did it just come in?

Please update the forum when you receive the email notification! Thanks and congrats again!!!

Incredible - congratulations! What subfield? Have you received the email as well? I ask because I'm wondering what this might mean for international students who are outside the country.

Thanks @afjackie and @nutella, that makes sense.

I'm astounded than an Ivy league university department can only offer a spot to 2 CP students, even if it's a pandemic year. Same question for Columbia and UPenn, both of whom didn't admit students to be able to support current students better. Maybe there's something about university funding that I don't get but where do those Ivy league endowments go???

No formal rejection yet from UCLA - and wondering if waitlists have gone out? No hopes of an acceptance definitely.

Yes I believe so! And thanks again, fingers crossed

It came in around 8 hours ago. A message from the DGS but forwarded by the coordinator.

Claiming a Cornell waitlist in CP! Received quite a nice personal-sounding message from the DGS saying they had a pool of 559 applicants this year of 'unprecedented quality'. 1a/3w/4r/5p

No worries! Hoping Cornell is still announcing decisions.

Have they sent out all the Cornell acceptances? Didn't see any CP claims here.

Hi @EstherBritoAbrio I would recommend reading Cyrus Samii's blog - he has advise for students interested in the NYU PhD: https://cyrussamii.com/?page_id=2121. Here's what I thought was particularly important advise to consider before applying: "I consider NYU’s political science PhD program to be a “boutique” program for those wishing to specialize in quantitative social science, and in particular applied statistics/econometrics and game theory. This has two implications. First, if that kind of specialization doesn’t appeal to you, then you should consider another program. Second, our admissions committee is typically looking for people with academic backgrounds that clearly indicate that they would thrive in our highly quant-oriented program. Many of our admits have studied in fields like economics, math, statistics, computer science, etc., as well as political science and related fields." NYU has recently gained a reputation for being one of the most quantitatively rigorous Poli Sci graduate programs, which signals well on the job market too. The other program I can think of that's probably as strong/stronger is Stanford. Here's what I think worked for me in my NYU application - I did a very quantitatively strong public policy master's at a top-5 US school, and took advanced statistics/econ/game theory. Grades in these sorts of courses and quant GRE scores matter a lot for NYU, from what I understand. Happy to chat more over DMs.

I received a CP acceptance at NYU a couple weeks ago

Same - UChicago rejection but referred to CIR.

That's still nearly double, which is quite a jump. Michigan also did not accept the GRE this year (most schools just made it optional). Couldn't have picked a worse year to apply, god.

Claiming a rejection from UMichigan. "The University of Michigan Political Science department received nearly 600 applications to our Ph.D. program this year. The pool was extremely competitive, and we were able to admit only about four percent of all applicants." 1a/2w/3r/7p

Might be worth checking if TA/RA money is over and above this or this amount is tied to teaching.

Congrats! Did you just receive your email from UCLA now? Just curious if they are gradually sending out offers or all at once?

^Same questions. Congrats both!

congrats! they sent out decisions on a saturday afternoon?! was it an automated email?