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Thank you so much for that clarification! It makes a lot of sense, maybe I was a little foolish to apply in my last year of undergrad... I'll try to do the same and give it a good wait! I wish you the best for your year abroad in Paris, I think you'll like the atmosphere!!

Did you take a gap year or two after your undergrad to work? I'm wondering if that played a large factor in the admissions. Congratulations by the way!!

Hi! I was also rejected from the dual degree sadly I'm a bit bummed because I put a lot of hopes in it but I think I'll work for a year and reapply next year. Congratulations to those that got in and good luck to the ones who didn't, we all have other options

Thank you for asking your friend! That's good to know but also feels like such a long wait ahhhh... Also I'm not sure LinkedIn always tells people who checked them, it's really not something to worry about!! It's weird they didn't go private actually...

No response yet for me. The person in charge of Dual Masters admissions at Columbia checked my LinkedIn last Monday, which probably means they're still looking at candidates and haven't finalized the list (unless they do it in one week but I kind of doubt it). I would expect to have to wait a little longer because SIPA will nominate its candidates and send them to Sciences Po, then Sciences Po will either confirm the list or reject some people. It has to go through two admissions committees and Sciences Po is notoriously slow. Good luck to all who applied for the wait!

Still no news today

I have friends who study there currently in their masters and it seems like the Paris campus is quite small; it's a bunch of little buildings scattered around St. Germain-des-Près and depending on your "School" you would have most of your courses in one. As a result students don't get a true "campus life", however that might change with the "Artillerie" extension that is currently being built (not sure when that will open). If you went to the PSIA you would be on Rue des Saints-Pères! I've been inside it's actually one of the larger buildings of them all, everything is made of stone with some newer renovated areas made of wood. Classrooms are small and that's where most of the seminars would take place, it feels a bit like a high school setting honestly. However I know that living in Paris was really hard during Covid because of the rent and expensive groceries... If I do end up studying there, I'm considering living slightly out of Paris itself so that I'm closer to green spaces with hopefully less expensive groceries and etc. Just make sure to be near a metro line

I was in Reims actually! I took the dual bachelor's with UBC and followed the North American track in France (dual degree students could not select Paris as a choice of campus) Did you go to Paris?

Hi! So I've been lucky enough to meet three people from alumni of the dual master (they all took the PSIA/MIA track) and I can hopefully answer some of your questions from my conversations with them. First of all, I wouldn't worry too much about Sciences Po "lowering" the value of your degree. All three of them integrated SIPA really easily once they physically arrived in New York, since SIPA students are really outgoing and sociable. You'd just have to get involved in student activities and initiate conversations with people who already made friends with others during your first year. Having been a Sciences Po student myself, I never had any problems obtaining internships both in Europe and in Canada. I worked for the EU, for a museum in France, in Canadian public service and for private companies. Two of the dual masters students I mentioned are American and they did their internship in the US, they didn't mention that Sciences Po hindered their search in any way (although its evident that Columbia would help you more than Sciences Po for the American job market). Finally, Columbia releases weekly emails with internship opportunities that you wouldn't be singled out from during your year at Sciences Po. Ultimately, I think you just have to figure out if you are really interested in spending a year in France! That will make the real difference in whether or not you think the dual masters is worth it. Academic life is very, very different at Sciences Po than in North American universities. You have to follow a strict program with upwards of 9-10 courses a semester. There is less room for electives (indeed, there are barely any elective courses at all) and you would be spending more time on coursework at Sciences Po than at SIPA. It's rigorous but has its own advantages, most dual degree students in general fare very well academically once they move to their partner university. All three of those alumni have interesting professional lives now and it doesn't appear to me they are struggling in any way more than their SIPA peers. But again, I'm sure some people wouldn't find it worth it if they only wanted to stay in the US for the rest of their lives. Chances are if you get in to the dual masters you would get in to SIPA alone anyways so you'll have the choice! Let me know if you have any more questions

Dual degree admission committees release their decisions all in one batch 2-3 months after the application deadline. I have a friend who was accepted to the dual degree with the Munk School at UofT less than two months after the deadline but I guess that's not the case for us... Still awaiting the decision as well for SIPA/PSIA, I was hoping it would come out this week because I was at Sciences Po for my bachelor's and we have to select our master's programs this weekend. Would've been nice not to have to apply to a second choice! Good luck to everyone who applied