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Demonstrating fit with faculty in an SOP is different from determining whether you are fit with the program. For example, while most successful applicants fit well with particular professors, few of them really know whether causal inference stuff is taught in Quant II, or not. A lot of great programs where great professors do their research offer rigorous training, but some have just started to follow the causal inference trend. And whether in-house training in game theory is necessarily better than outsourcing the 3rd course to the econ department? Whether one semester of math additional to the summer school math camp can really make or break an applicant's decision to attend? Plus, why do placement candidates do well this year while not others? These questions are what we have to ask during campus visit.

Agreed.

I guess the reply was to my post. I would rather say overall ranking would still play a role in terms of the quality of cohort you get, and might determine the degree of carefulness people on the search committee will read your files on the job market.

And I want to add that not everyone knows the "A" and "I" thing. When I posted my first acceptance, I did not know it.

Congrats! That must be awesome. Hopefully I will get married in two years.

And it looks like we can still count on funding in the sixth year, if we have promising performance in the political science department.

Basically I received a highly similar email with that sent to other students. If not becoming a US resident in the second year, I still have to pay the tuition. The tuition must be really high (not fully covered by 21k scholarship).

Toni Congrats!! I am SOOOOO happy for you:) Looks like I can see you in March, if I make it to the States. However, I was too excited to read the email in details, and found out just now that we still have to pay tuition. Crap. But it is a great program. We can only count on their good will.

Well it is very common for these sorts of questions. Say if someone is accepted at a highly ranked program with decent fit and a slightly lower ranked program with superb fit.

Haha see my PM!

Hi, Would you mind telling me if you are an international student?

Great, thank you RWBG. I am very anxious.

CONGRATS!!

Congrats TONI!! I think the DGS is Sanford, from whom we got the email.

Who would claim the MIT offer?

CONGRATS groatian!

Huge congrats to the new admits!! You guys ROCK! I would love to attend Berkeley...

So I will see you at Rochester then! OH YEAH!

Thanks guys:)

Huge congrats to those admitted. I am a little devastated by Chicago's decision to waitlist me, but I am thrilled to have received an acceptance from NYU.

Congrats on the recent Penn admit!

Guess I missed out on some really interesting stuff

So is your girl friend German or foreign citizen in general?

I have to take my girlfriend's preferences, too, but hers should not be make or break. And location in general should not be make or break.

For certain schools, I will definitely ask about courses outside the department.