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Undergraduate institution: University of Chicago Undergraduate GPA: 3.53 Undergraduate Major: Economics GRE Quantitative Score: 800 GRE Verbal Score: 670 GRE AW Score: 3.5 Years Out of Undergrad (if applicable): 2 years Years of Work Experience: Almost 2 years Describe Relevant Work Experience: Project manager designing household surveys, oveseeing fieldworks, etc. I got Dean's fellowship of $20,000 also.

I was accepted to both MPA-DP (Development Practice) at SIPA and MPA/ID (International Development) at HKS, and deciding hard which one to choose. Can anyone please help me compare relative strength and weaknesses of the two programs? My sense is that MPA/ID is much more quantitative and academically rigorous?

Program Applied To MPA, MPA-DP (Development Practice), MPA/ID (International Development) Schools Applied To: Woodrow Wilson (MPA), HKS (MPA/ID), SIPA (MPA), SIPA (MPA-DP) Schools Admitted To: HKS, SIPA (MPA), SIPA (MPA-DP) Schools Rejected From: Princeton(Waitlisted) Still Waiting: Princeton (I don't have high hope) Undergraduate institution: The University of Chicago Undergraduate GPA: 3.53 Last 60 hours of Undergraduate GPA (if applicable): na Undergraduate Major: Economics GRE Quantitative Score: 800 GRE Verbal Score: 670 GRE AW Score: 3.5 Years Out of Undergrad (if applicable): 2 Years of Work Experience: 1.8 Describe Relevant Work Experience: Project Manager designing a survey on household businesses in a developing country, overseeing fieldwork, budget, etc. Strength of SOP (be honest, describe the process, etc): focusing on an experience of field management, contrasting stellar environment of academic ivory tower and reality in the field Strength of LOR (be honest, describe the process, etc): got one letter from a UChicago professor who owns the said survey project, another one from survey project consultant (who helped with my work in the field) The last one is from a UChicago economics professor who is not involved in the project. Other: