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This pandemic is certainly going to permanently restructure graduate programs. Cohorts will continue to stay small, if not smaller. This was, as one person said earlier, just the perfect time to do that. So I think it's just going to get worse.

Yes; that's the mindset! Graduate school is not the meaning of life -- and, as we have all seen thus far, there are so many variables we cannot control such that, at the end of the day, about 98% of the process is luck. We just got unlucky!!

they all say that

same

yes

Aren't you already a masters student?

in at Cornell!

Anyone know when Harvard is going to send out decisions?

That's crazy.

UChicago rejection but referred to MAPSS -- does anyone know anything about how competitive being admitted there is?

Maybe Chicago is sending decisions based on subfield?

happy valentines day ❤️

claiming Georgetown acceptance too! Received a phone call letting me know that all acceptances should be released by Monday and phone calls going out today

I do not see any reasons to go to graduate school in political science, where you must likely will NOT land an academic job, if you think "there are valid reasons to go to grad school." That might hold true for economics or computer science or biology, but it is certainly not the case for political science and most humanities.

Well it certainly does indeed have to be pursued for its own sake -- why else would you do it? And why would anyone, then, go to a R2 school or not so highly ranked school? It's because you love it.

I don't think its extremist; its just the advice I have received from literally every professor and graduate student I've talked to. If you want to be rich, then the academic life is not for you, sadly.

Well then you should certainly evaluate your desire to go to graduate school; you don't go to grad school because you want a job--no, you do it because you love the subject so much you cannot see yourself doing anything different for the next 5 - 7 years. You should only go if you really love it, and pursue it for its own sake, as an end in itself.

same here

Not for me.

Please just be patient everyone.

Re: Apparently Duke interviewed with those that they were not sure. How do you know this?

Notification via email to check portal.

Claiming a Duke admit! I am so thrilled and humbled!!