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bctheory

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  1. Well that ends my cycle, very nice rejection letters by both Princeton and Caltech. But I'm happy about the options I do have and I sincerely wish the best of luck to everyone
  2. I can claim one of the Rochester acceptances. Seems like calls started going out Friday with official info coming this week, unsure if they have already called everyone who they're accepting though it sounded like maybe they hadn't (just guessing).
  3. Congrats! Yeah the "in review" for OSU and "pending" for UW-Madison is driving me crazy knowing others have acceptances
  4. Them: So you're are you going to stay in [insert geographic area of undergrad school] Me: No, none of the schools in [insert geographic area of undergrad school] have good programs for my specific field Them: So where are you applying? Me: Schools X, Y, Z etc... Them: Oh wow some of those are pretty far away and different from [insert geographic area of undergrad school] Me: Yeah I just want to go to Stanford because the weather is nicer in California...
  5. Thanks everyone for the responses. I looked at the ICPSR website and would love to do that, unfortunately it is probably not a possibility for this summer. I'll definitely be working hard to do very well on the GRE quant section. Also I think I'll try to work on how I learn and study for math courses and take some classes this summer. I think I'll definitely re-take real analysis as I did poorly and don't feel like I fully grasped the material. Despite the grades I feel comfortable with using calculus so won't bother retaking those. But what else would people recommend taking for formal gov't? I was looking at diffy q, advanced linear algebra, and topology as possibly useful. Thanks again!
  6. I am a junior poli sci and econ double major and I want to go to graduate school for formal methods in political science. Unfortunately I have all Cs in my math courses (Calc1-3, lin algebra, real analysis, and stats) and believe this is probably crushing my chances at going to a top school. I'll be doing game theory research this summer, taking a grad course in quant int'l relations in the fall, and hopefully study my ass off and do well at the quant part of the GRE. I think I underperformed in the math classes and would be able to do the math associated with formal government theory. Is there any other way I can demonstrate this to adcomms? Would it be worth retaking previous math classes or taking new ones if I do well? Also what schools which are quant heavy would I have decent chance of getting into? cGPA: 3.2 Major GPAs: 3.9 and 4.0 Should have 2 strong letters of rec so far and hopefully a 3rd after this semester. TAd an upper level game theory class Doing own game theory research this summer with an advisor Well that was a lot, but I'm extremely interested in studying this field so any advice would be great, thanks!
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