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The situation is a little bit more complicated actually. I got into the MPA/ID but I am thinking of deferring my admission for personal reasons. I have asked HKS and they have said that this is not a problem at all. I do not have an offer from HBS, but there is a good chance that I can get one if I apply this year. I would probably choose HBS over HKS if admitted because I see my professional life more and more in the private sector (though I still aim for development impact). Can I apply to HBS? Should I ask HKS beforehand? I'm sure they'll let me apply for the joint degree, but 3 years is too long and expensive.

What if the other school is HBS?

Thanks :-)

Hi guys, Do you know to what extent an acceptance is binding? Can you accept another school's offer after you've accepted HKS and paid the deposit? Do you only lose your deposit or is there anything else?

Well I got: - an immediate e-mail from notification@embark.com saying: "Congratulations! You have successfully submitted your online application to Harvard University JFK School of Government" - another e-mail (actually 3h later, not 24h...) from messages@notification.embark.com saying: "Thank you for responding to our offer of admission online." So yeah, no clear mention of accepting.

I got a generic, but apparently manual e-mail about 24-48h later.

So did anybody go to the MPA/ID visiting day? Any pictures? How was it?

They have removed the condition :-) I've studied all that Lagrange multiplier stuff etc... but didn't realize they needed to know about it in such detail. Yay !

I can do that, but I'll have to study (it will be too late to accept other school offers, so failing the course (less than means all my admissions are wasted... so I can't take the slightest risk). I'll have to cancel plans for that I guess. Plus how do the exam work with these online courses? Can I take them from anywhere in the world? Ok thanks, that's very good to know. I think I've seen all of this, I'll try to get my professor to confirm that.

Here's what I've covered, excluding advanced statistics & econometrics courses. I just have a hard time believing that most admitted candidates have gone further. What do you think? BSc in Physics, year I – Differential and integral calculus Real and complex numbers, sequences and series, single variable real functions, differential equations, R^n Euclidean space, multivariable real functions, implicit and inverse functions, curves, surfaces and vectorial analysis. BSc in Physics, year I – Linear algebra and geometry Structured sets, isomorphisms, automorphism groups, orbits, stabilizers, lateral classes, normal subgroups, vectorial spaces and fields, linear systems and transformations, matrices, eigenvalue, determinants, diagonalization and triangulation of linear operators, dual spaces, Euclidean spaces, quadratic forms, conic and quadratic sections. BSc in Business Engineering, year I – Mathematics I Radix, real series, single variable real functions (limits, continuity, derivative, extrema, concavity), integration, complex numbers, vectorial spaces, matrix calculus, linear systems. BSc in Business Engineering, year II – Mathematics II Linear algebra, multivariate functions, differential equations and applications. (can't find the detail of this course but it was extensive)

It's not about being the only one, it just means that I'll have to cancel my holidays and that of my fiancée to study. The fact that I'm leaving for two years is putting so much strain on this relationship already; I had promised that I would build something with her during the summer. I don't think I can go through this. :-( :-(

I've called them and apparently this means my background has been deemed insufficient. I'm very surprised since I had large number of very quantitative classes, including all calculus and algebra classes taught in the 1st year of the BSc in Mathematics at my university (I have also taken a number of stat, econometrics, physics classes etc, all requiring multivariable calculus). Do those of you who got into the MPA/ID without this extra requirement have extremely quantitative backgrounds? Could this be a mistake? I know that I haven't given a lot of details in my application about this, but I definitely mention multivariable calculus.

Got my admission package this weekend. Does anyone's official admission letter (MPA/ID) say "admission is conditional upon successful completion (grade of B or better) of an additional university-level course covering multivariable calculus."? That sounds a bit weird. It wasn't on my e-mail admission letter. Do they send this to all students or does it mean the info or the grades on my transcript are insufficient?

No award tab either. But the site is confusing: "if you do not see a fellowship on the awards tab you were not selected as a recipient". I assume no tab means no scholarship though.

I got an e-mail from a current student matched for first language (French) and degree (MPA-ID). Very personalized indeed.