
jazzrap
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Hi Guys, Hope you don't find me too paranoid. I have a question that should not be an issue, but it might create potential problems for me. The last time I looked at my GRE scores, I noticed that the ETS adjusted the percentiles a little bit. However, I already sent the paper reports to all the schools using ETS and I do not remember if I clicked on the send button before the adjustment or after the adjustment. As I am filling out the application forms, I need to fill out the percentiles for my scores. Should I fill out the percentiles as they appear now or those percentiles before the adjustment (note that I have these down because the ETS sent me a paper report shortly after the exam)? Either way, there is some probability that "inconsistencies" might appear between my percentiles on the application form and the percentiles reported to the schools by the ETS. And I don't want to look dishonest. I planned to insert "percentiles subjected to change" in those percentile boxes on application forms, but they don't allow any space there after you put in the actual numbers. It seems to be a "you worry too much question", but I still find it quite annoying. Any ideas?
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Hi Professor, Thank you so much. Now I am relieved. I also would ask the same question floor 71 asks though.
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Guys, Here is my situation. I registered two dates for the GRE this summer. I took one and got great scores, cancelling the other right away. But the problem is that on my online score report, it still shows that my "most recent test date" is the date I cancelled. It displays "Absent or not available". When I send the score to institutions, even though I would select one date only, the score report might still display my most recent test date, giving the admission committee an impression that I might have taken the GRE twice and the second time (most recent) is worse than the first one. In reality, I did not take any test on that so called "most recent test date". To see evidence suggesting that they can still see your most recent test date, here is a link to a sample score report (http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/institution_score_report.pdf). In this report, there is a separate area that displays "the most recent test date". What do you think?
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When would you send out your GRE scores?
jazzrap replied to jazzrap's topic in Political Science Forum
Hi, Thank you for the response. May I ask what you mean by "if it isn't already active"? Does that mean that once I filled out personal information in my applicant account my file would be activated? Plus, do you think I can email them to check if the scores have been delivered? Or they will not likely answer those questions given that they are so busy? -
Hi guys, One friend of mine applied last cycle and told me that ETS failed to deliver his scores to a program. It was before mid-November when he ordered the score delivery, so it was quite a mess on ETS' part. I wonder whether we should send them out as early as possible. I am planning on sending them out in mid October, and email departments to ask whether they have received the scores. Do you guys think this is a good idea? My worry is that the staff might not remember a score report delivered too early? Say if they got the score report in early November they would put it somewhere they might not be able to find, so making it hard to relate my profile to the scores. So what do you think?
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Fudan has decent teachers of Political Science, folks including Tang Shiping and a few others. In China, Political Science has more political and less Science. However, Fudan is catching up. Nevertheless, if OP has options in HK and Australia, I would still not recommend Fudan for the things Toni pointed out above.
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I agree. It might also depend on what level of Chinese the OP need. If he wants to be a researcher who reads information from Chinese documents and newspaper, the ideal path is to study in a PhD program in Europe that has China research as one of its strengths. Then, during substantive research, he can learn Chinese in language classes offered there. This is because IMO, learning Chinese with Europeans or Americans is easier than learning Chinese with Koreans, because many Koreans who study Chinese already have decent background in basic Chinese. BTW, for China scholarship outside of the US, I recommend Australia in addition to Singapore and HK. Deakin University has He Baogang, who is respected everywhere. Sydney and ANU should also house good China scholars.
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Sigh. My guess is that the whole discipline is cutting funding
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So does this mean your school has been admitting fewer applicants??
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I can't agree more.
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Thank you for the clarification. I guess I was confused between PE in the substantive sense and PE in the methodological sense.
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I wonder if Stanford GSB would be an option? Note that a lot of PE stuff are taught in business schools in the States. If you are interested in PE, then Stanford GSB, Chicago Harris, Northwestern Kellogg come to my mind immediately. They have great placement record in terms of producing political scientists.
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Emory is awesome with smaller cohorts. Almost in their fifth year has a publication coauthored with a faculty.
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Studying formal model with affiliated faculties?
jazzrap replied to jazzrap's topic in Political Science Forum
Sigh. Thank you for pointing it out for me though. -
Studying formal model with affiliated faculties?
jazzrap replied to jazzrap's topic in Political Science Forum
The program has one teacher of formal model who is an econ professor. He is one of the "really, really good people". The intro class is taught by another one of the "really, really good people", who is a professor of a policy school and not even officially affiliated with the polisci department. My problem is that these folks have the responsibility to teach students in their lectures, but as they are not registered polisci professors, I might have an uphill battle to fight competing with econ students or business students to gain their mentor. -
Guys, I know it is too early to think about issues like this, but I am just curious. I look to apply to a program where faculties are strong for my substantive interest and regional interest, but not so much for my methodological interest. It has only one political scientist who is a user of game theories. The game theory course has been taught by an Economics professor who is listed as an affiliated faculty in the Political Science department. Will it be very likely that I can get a lot of game theory training in this program? I understand that game theory training has a lot to do with departmental culture. It is better to do game theory when you can surround yourself with a lot of classmates also doing game theory. However, I am just wondering how much worse it is to study in the program described above. I need to know this because I am motivated by substantive interest and regional interest as well as the methodological tool I want to work with.
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"Although we have no official score requirement, admitted students typically have GRE scores of 166+ verbal, 155+ quantitative, and a score of 5.5 in the Analytical section". From this sentence, we should infer that 155 is probably the lowest possible score an admitted student at Stanford would have.
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I assume those admitted students below the average score have other skills that make them competitive.
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You are right. I understand that it is not a sure thing. But seriously, how many Harvard IR ABDs have two first tier coauthored articles on their resume?
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Why would any program reject a student who has coauthored on these two top journals? It would be too stupid a thing to do.
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Great, thanks!! Now I know what I am going to do. BTW, I guess I was freaking out about the page limits because I assumed the requirements to be double-spaced (as this is the way college students usually write). But now I feel that if I can do single-spaced writing sample, it would be easily condensed into a 15-25 page thing including the list of references. Do you think that is helpful? Or do you think professors are tired examining writing samples so that they would rather want a long double spaced sample to read more easily?
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Thank you!! The 330 is a random target I theorized in a not so rigid way:(