PS2026

Im not coping im reapplying so i actually can get to a department where i can get an academic job. Your top school, highest ambition, places no one in half decent professor jobs. I just dont get why people who want to do research get excited about jobs which at best place people into low ranking departments and at worst into jobs you can do with a masters

If Mich state is your top choice I guess its good you have no hope of doing research at a college...more job openings for harvard yale princeton people i guess... https://polisci.msu.edu/graduate/placement.html

What programs are you getting into? How can you get into your top choice and be applying to Harvard but waiting for Gtown? Harvard is the #1 program in most subfields, how are you getting into your top program if you're rejected at harvard? Did you get into Yale or Princeton, probably not. Just take the L.

What's with everyone in this thread coping that they got into their top choice? @Unobtrusive Owlet, you were applying to SIPA and actively waiting for Georgetown-you did NOT get into your top choice. @PoliSci2026 You didnt get into Harvard and were waiting to hear from Georgetown (very different ranks), you did NOT get into your top program. Let's all face it, this was a hard cycle. Most of us didn't get offers and those who did received them at schools that were not their top choice. But everyone here trying to smile and say that they got into their top choice is lying. Even more so than usual the top 5 departments admitted the same students who get all the choice while the rest of us have to beg for a place at a poorly paid program where we wont ever place into academia. The whole thing's a sham.