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I'd love to help out too especially with IR folks. PM me!

Luck honestly lol.

I might see you at ICPSR sometime?

Thanks! Also congrats about ND again. That is an awesome place! Certainly was a difficult decision for me.

Took my name off of the Princeton waitlist for IR. Turned down Chicago and ND too.

The OSU visit was pretty amazing. The department is criminally underrated at least is the US News rankings. They have amazing people doing just about everything extremely well.

Officially committed to Ohio State today after the visit! So excited.

From to looks of it ND Security Studies seems to be on the up and up. Lots of offers out and people coming in.

Received my OSU funding today. Received the Dean's Fellowship. 25k year/ 5 years.

Officially rejected Georgetown, Maryland, and Wisconsin tonight.

Yeah 18k is still a huge amount for South Bend. 26k is the equivalent of 77k in Palo Alto. Man this is going to be a tough decision to make.

Received an email saying I was accepted as a Presidential Fellow at ND. 26k Stipend- 5 years Health Insurance Extra travel funds for conferences From the sounds of the email subsidized campus apt housing This is pretty amazing especially for South Bend.

Pretty sure I'm going to pick to go to Ohio State if I dont hear back from Princeton or Duke. That methods program is too good to pass up. Plus the addition of Gelpi makes it that much better. Still have my visits to do though so we'll see. (Plus being from Ohio and wanting to go to a crap ton of football and bball games would be sweeeet)

I still definitely think it is right up there with MIT and Columbia if you want to do Security Studies. I dont think many places offer a better committee than Mearsheimer, Pape, and Staniland (plus other people at the Harris school like bdm) The reason I post this as an undergrad is that I'm just worried about the future of the department going forward. I want to see it continue being the place people go to to study security both at a grad and undergrad level because it is the best. Chicago used to be poli sci and I want it to get back to that.

Oh awesome! Good luck. Mearsheimer is the dude if you wanna study IR theory.

Not yet. I'm waiting to hear back from the Princeton and Duke waitlists, but as of now I'm favoring Ohio State. You??

I mean IR here IS Mearsheimer (and Pape who is his protegee). He places incredibly well and on top of that is an absolute blast to talk to. This year he is on leave and there have been only like 3 IR classes for undergrads which is sad. The department without him has been very empty. I wonder what will happen to Chicago IR when he retires?

I'll regive my Chicago opinion. It seems very much the case that there is conflict within the department over the future path that they should take. It comes down to Theory vs. IR/American. At least in my discussion with professors and grad students, there is frustration that the theory people almost always refuse to hire or give tenure to anyone who does any semblance of quantitative study (along with other methodologies and views of the world). Chicago has only 4 IR professors and has not hired a new one despite many attempts since 1999, including a few this year that the IR faculty really wanted to get. In a really funny example, one year the IR faculty asked the theory people to make a list of IR people they would be ok with hiring and they came back with a list of feminist theorists and people who dont really even do IR. It really does seem that theory runs the ship which in many ways is at the expense of the other subfields. No doubt Chicago is a great place and I loved my time as an undergrad here, but I think the department is no where near where it used to be in terms of quality and training. On a side note, it was kinda funny at the visit today to hear the professors talk about this and kinda lie about the true mood the department. But that is recruiting for you This also isn't meant to bash theory at all so I hope it doesnt come off that way. I say all of this and yet I still definitely would go there. The IR people they do have are incredible and do amazing work and are amazingly nice people who are super smart. The above is just a frustration that me and my friends sometimes have.

Agreed that mixed methods is the best way, but Chicago doesnt even really do any Quant stuff which is hugely important for getting hired.

I'd say Chicago= good if you want to do Qual work. Not keeping up too much with where the field is going (econ/quant) yet they have some great placements over the years. Awesome for IR and Theory. Not sure if overall it is a top 10 program anymore (and I go here).

I was hoping for some really mean/funny rejection letters. The formulaic, you all are so qualified and if we could have 800 spots we would take you all but we dont response got boring. I want to see an email when you open it is like REJECTED in big red letters, or starts "Congratulations! Welcome to Program X...jk your application was pretty awful. Please never step foot on our prestigious campus or we will call the police. Oh and thanks for the 100 bucks. Booze money for the department!" Maybe I just have a horrible sense of humor but I would have gotten a kick out of some creative one's like that.

I didn't listen to the limit. I know Georgetown's was 500 and I know I doubled it.

Got an email tonight from a prof at Maryland saying I was in. I am going to decline it, but just thought people who were waiting from them would like to know. Rest of the decisions soon!

4 years of college went by fast. Can't imagine how fast the next 5 to 3949583 years in grad will be. Time goes so much quicker the older you get. Yikes.

In at Georgetown. I'd love to go there but the funding seems awful for DC.