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Thanks for your advice

not really, because I haven't learned much about quantitative analysis yet, and the only method I could use last semester was only qualitative. But i can verify that I have worked on my qualitative analysis skills - I have taken several courses during the summer. It is so disappointing to hear that my sample should speak my research interests, because the school I am attending now does not really offer courses regarding topics I am interested in. The country I am living in right now has no experts on the topics that I want to pursue in my phd program.

Hi all, I am applying for the 2012 September admission, and I am having trouble preparing my writing sample. I'm applying for comparative politics department and the subjects I want to study in the Phd program is not really offered in the undergrad school I am going to right now. So although I have a ok-quality term paper, I don't have anything that is related to what I want to study that I mention in my SOP. (actually I have one but it is more of an undergrad essay, without much data). So the question is, do you thing it would be okay for me to submit something that is in the comparative politics subfield but not really related to my statement of purpose? It is rather difficult for me to prepare something solid within several months, and it is more difficult considering that there is actually no professors or academic courses that offer anything related to what I want to study (within the comparative politics subfield in my current undergrad school). Comments would really help