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Wendol Congrats on making it . Alas someone from India I can relate to. Wendol I am sure the large number of Math courses in your engineering degree must have made you applealing for several schools you had applied.But however my course work involved little or no math as I was a media and communications student. I was just curious as to your work in climate change, what aspect of climate change were you working on. Also 4 month preparation for SOP! must be one hellava I was just curious as to your work in climate change, what aspect of climate change were you working on. Also 4 month preparation for SOP! must be one hellava SOP. SOP is one area I am concerned as I don't know whether inbetween work and econ preparation I wSOP. SOP is one area I am concerned as I don't know whether inbetween work and econ preparation I will have time to sculpt an SOP. Wendol or anyone for that matter is it possible for you to PM me you SOP barr your personal details so that it will provide a brief idea or a base for me to start on ( I can understand in case you are not willing to share, kindly do so if it is OK to do so). Regards Veeraaa

First of thank you all for providing advice (Sounds more encouraging). I have no words to express as to what a breather or a wiff of fresh air it has been for me reading your posts as I have none to guide me or talk to regarding Policy studies abroad in India. Also aplogies for delayed reply as I was in field (Rural India) I was not able to post. Congrats for making to the schools you have applied I am sure I will be meeting some of you next year in case I end up in your school. I still do have some queries. I hope you can kindly bear with me. Work experience is one of my primary concern. By the time I will be applying I will have work experience of roughly 1 year and 7 months but I will be working post applications and by the time I admission decisions arrive and I leave for joining the programme I shall have completed approximately 2.3 years. Thus I was wondering whether the schools will see me as an applicant that will bring into table more than 2 years of development related experience or will they count my experience at the time of applying alone. Also apart from post college experience I was associated with the instute for an additional six months for my thesis ie I was spending full 4 months at the instute studying ICT and development issues during the thesis semester and continued and joined the instute directly after college and am continuing the similar work except for the pay I receive so will that also count as experience? No issues dagger you need not be apologetic infact I aplogise for not taking the humour in right vein. Yes Young lions he is recognised as father of green revolution in India, a world food prize winner, adviser to successive Indian governments and someone who worked closely with Borlaug during the initial stages of green revolution. First off congrats for making it to WWS and and all the schools of your choice, an incredible achievement indeed. I was particularly worried about my communications background as I have come across very few applicants who majored in communications and went on to policy schools. Although I wll complete macroeconomics (Distance learning) coursework before joining I am not in a position to complete it before applications however I will be completing economic statistcs and mocroeconomics (Distance learning)before applying. Will this hurt my chances of applications?

Hello buddyMy query might have sounded funny to you but the truth is back from my place, the education system ins completely differnt , one can get a ton of advice on application into Engineering schools in US back here in India but we rarely come across someone capable of providing adivce on Public policy education, that is one of the main reason I have been posting in a couple of forums. Now only if you could be a bit more helpful Cheers

Hello I plan to apply for international development and policy programmes for fall 2010. I plan to apply for KSG, Yale, SIPA, GSPP and UMich. The following are the statistics. I completed a five year integrated Masters in Communications at a top 10 technical university in India. My GPA was 8.23/10 . I was an intern at UNICEF and was a summer research fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian equalent of MIT). After university I joined a premier agriculture,environment and rural development research institute as a project associate. My work extensively focusses on rural development and extension (ICT for development, bridging digital divide)and starting this year I shall also be working on Climate change and how rural and coastal community(rural fisherfolk) needto adapt and the extension strategies needed to prepare such vulnerable communities. I work under a top policy maker and a visionary of food and environment policy in India, also popularly referred to as the father of "Green revolution". All in all By the time I apply I shall be having two years of work experience. I have already taken my GRE and have the following scores. Quants 780 and Verbal 750. However I lack courses in economics and quants. To rectify this I have enrolled my self in distance education(Weekend classes) for Masters level courses in Micro economics, Economic statistics and International economics. However it is not possible for me to take courses in Macro economics as it is accessible onjly after completing the masters first level courses. However I am confident of scoring good in the papers mentioned . I can get solid LOR's from my boss who was the father of green(AGRARIAN) revolution and from my former prof's who have now gone on to lead some big commonwealth organisation as regional heads. Kindly help to me understand as to what chjances I stand for being admitted into KSG, Yale, SIPA, GSPP and UMich. Also provide advice onto what areas I need improvement.