[American SIS decision]

Got into IPCR at SIS today, packet in the mail. Has anyone else heard from IPCR, what do you think of it?

[SIS at American University]

Has anyone graduated from here or going to go here? How are the classes/professors?

Do most people take 2 years to finish and do most students do work abroad while they're at AU??

I've heard that it doesn't actually prepare you for a career afterwards?

What do most graduates do afterwards? Is American's reputation across the board worth attending here?

I'd love any information about this program since I haven't been able to find alumni who speak highly of it.

[Monterey Institute of International Studies]

I've been accepted to the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA, Middlebury's graduate school.

Is anyone an alum, or know an alum of any of their programs? I'd be enrolling in the International Policy Program.

Pros that I know of: small school, great profs, great jobs skills, good networking in high profile NGOs and Govt. institutions, internship opportunities, combination of academic classes and hard skills, aka project evaluation, economics, etc

Cons: Monterey is tiny, I would have to leave after graduating because there aren't any jobs there, maybe too focused on mainstream development and NGOs (not radical enough for me, or no room for dissenting opinions?) so small and isolated, would I go crazy after living in Boston for 5 years? No one has heard of it in the academic world, so it would be difficult for me to get into a PhD program later

If anyone knows anything, please help!! (I've also been accepted to American University, Brandeis, Boston College and am waiting for New SChool and Columbia)