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swr22

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  1. Turned down Texas. Good luck, everyone.
  2. Boston rocks. Looking forward to LA, though.
  3. Quite frustrating, isn't it? Does anyone know if there are any year-on-year rankings? Someone mentioned some to me but I have yet to find it.
  4. Personally, I'd choose USC as their communications school kicks ass but that is just my two cents.
  5. I think the problem is one of not knowing how to prepare their students for the US job market. I would be very happy to do a Cambridge PhD, but also expect to do a post-doc in the States before applying to schools. I would also be tough on them in terms of getting good quant training. Europeans are less positivist than their cousins over the Atlantic...
  6. I think the above is right, although Oxford is bustling in its own way. You can't go wrong with either, so a feeling of 'fit' is probably better. I am a native Londoner, so I might well downplay the effect of a foreigner being able to live in London, but the Oxbridge 'experience' was something that I thought was pretty unique. A few friends of mine turned down Oxbridge offers for London unis because they didn't like the idea of gowns, balls, college living and all the bells and whistles of Cambridge and Oxford. The anonymity of London suited them. It really depends on what's your idea of a fun place to be for a year.
  7. Nope. Not yet.
  8. Katzenstein is at Cornell, Ruggie is at Harvard, Finnemore is at GWU, Sikkink is at Minnesota etc etc
  9. If you can't go to Cambridge, then I'd go to Oxford. You'll have a lot more fun and feel part of something more. LSE is great, but you are essentially a Londoner who attends some classes rather than feeling part of a school. Oxford will be more of an 'experience'.
  10. An email yesterday and I'm comparative.
  11. Well, I have still heard nothing from georgetown. I'm taking it as a no!
  12. When did you hear?
  13. swr22

    London, England

    For private housing, look on gumtree.com. I would look to try and share with 2 or 3 other people. Areas like Kennington/Oval are probably the nearest reasonably priced areas. Any more info, pm me. I live about 2 minutes from the LSE.
  14. Got the first N.O. so far- from Brown. I am pretty sure that I have other rejections, they just have not figured to tell me yet!
  15. Why not throw out an application? I'd also email Daniel Lynch and get a rapport going and ask him about whether it is helpful/unhelpful to have gone to USC as an undergrad.
  16. in the same boat.
  17. yeah, I'm in a similar situation with a stipend of $14K. Not sure how far that would get me in Austin.
  18. Equally, if you have always been in Cal, then maybe try something new. Life experience is a really underrated criterion for choosing on these boards, I think. Do a year at Dartmouth, see some new things and then apply for the PhD at wherever you like. It's not as if having Dartmouth on your CV is going to harm you...
  19. Did anyone apply to Cambridge? They have a really nice faculty over there and have just realigned their Social and Political Science Faculty together with their International Studies School.
  20. I figured that Georgetown had already admitted a bunch of people, both with funding and without, and that the rest of us were just waiting on the inevitable rejection letters. Am I being too pessimistic?
  21. USC has a longstanding speciality in this and has just endowed a new US-China Institute
  22. Still waiting on Georgetown, Brown, Virginia (probably waitlisted) and Michigan (probably rejected).
  23. USC is.....(if you are talking SoCal rather tan SoCar), but I would email the department.
  24. It is my birthday too. Got a rejection this time last year too. Head's up and have a good day.
  25. IPE= International Political Economy.
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