bauhaus
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I was admiited to four schools, and was flying from europe. I got the maximum coverage from each schools (around 400$). Together it was enough for the trip. They didn t worry about which flights i spent their money on.
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Any views on the nyu visit day?
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Not at Cornell.
I'm going to assume that most Harvard deals are the same. I have a good friend at Harvard who definitely does NOT have to stay at Harvard during the summer and that she has used that money towards language programs overseas.
ok, but then why do schools list stipend and summer grant separately?
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Question: does a summer research award imply that you are expected to stay during the summer? In general, how long time can one spent on a summer holiday?
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Ok,
Any info on Harvard PEG, Stanford and NYU would be welcome!
gabor
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Ok my cycle has ended! I declined two waitlists (duke & caltech). I allmost surely declining an mit offer soon! Good luck to everyone (and gonna stay in the forum, of course)!
Gabor
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I d add the possibility to try to get something you had writtten published. That s what i did in my gap year and got an r&r which gave a great boost to my applicatuion.
Also, i am gonna get off the waitlist at Duke, and probably turn down an offer at mit. Hope that this helps someone out there!
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PROFILE:
Type of Undergrad Institution: shitty public school in eastern europe
Major(s)/Minor(s): Economics
Undergrad GPA: bot convertable, but mediocre
Type of Grad: Economics MA in an OK private, american university in eastern europe
Grad GPA: ~3.6
GRE: 162 V 164Q 4.5 AW
Any Special Courses: the full MA sequence in micro & macro, full phd sequence in Econometrics + (pol.econ, voting behavior, pol psychology graduate seminars)
Letters of Recommendation: had a close relationship with all of them and I assume they were very strong but none of them is very well known. 2 econ profs (PhD Michigan & Harvard), 2 polsci profs, and the former minister for the economy in my home country
Research Experience: bunch of research papers, one publication in Electroral Studies
Teaching Experience: 2 semesters of teaching in a business school
Subfield/Research Interests: methods, behavior, polecon
Other:
RESULTS:
Acceptances($$ or no $$): Harvard PEG (no funding info yet, but shouldn t be a problem), Stanford ($$), MIT ($$)
Waitlists: Caltech, Duke
Rejections: Yale, Berkeley, Princeton, Stanford GSB Polecon,
Pending: Harvard, NYU (assumed to be a reject)
Going to: ?
Advice: A lesson is that you might have a shot in top tier school even with not so nice stats if you have some sort of extra. In my case that could have been a publication, a lot of independent research and teaching. Apparently fit was also important (even if not the way I expexted): I was rejected by some "lower ranked" schools and accepted by supposedy better ones.
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I am really ambivalent with this. I mean NYU was my dream school (in my dream city) and all along the process i found it
impossible not to pick one program that i prefer over all the others (which is admittedly a silly attitude, ex post). also
i thought i had the best fit at that department (pol econ, behavior + quant).
as I see there is a consensus that harvard-stanford are the places that you are supposed to attend if accepted but still,
i think i d turn down both if accepted to nyu. it honestly does not have to do anything with my ego:)
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Out of berkeley. It s overfor me unless there is some hope in nyu... Is that possible?
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Rejected at yale and stanford gsb... Their loss:)
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You kidding? I'd do it just for the frequent flyer miles.
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I know its a lame question, but...
...is it considered immoral to attend a visit day somewhere, that you re 100% not to attend (in order to get financial help to pay for flights elsewhere?
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Rejected from Princeton as well.
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That's awesome! You are only the second European I know who watched it!
edit: I've mostly lived in Central/Eastern Europe so...that could be why.
I also watched it:) Actually, it was quite popular among my peers (born in the late eighties).
i loved Linka from the USSR, especially.
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PSU - Feb 24-27
UT - March 1-2
CU-Boulder - March 1-3
Northwestern - March 1-3
UC Irvine - March 1-3
USC-POIR March 4-6
UC Davis - March 7-9
UChicago - March 8-9
UWashington March 8-9
UCLA - March 8-10
Cornell - March 12-13
MIT March 13-14
UNC - March 15-17
Michigan - March 15-17
UVA - March 16-17
UC Berkeley - March 18-19
Duke - March 18-20
Wisconsin - March 22-24
NYU - March 23
UPenn - March 23
WUSTL - March 23-24
ND: March 23-25
TAMU: March 23-25
Rochester - March 25-27
Minnesota -March 26
Columbia - March 27-29
OSU - March 29-31
FSU - March 29th-31st
Yale is supposed to be April 1-3.
Harvard PEG - April 3-4
Stanford - April 9-10 -
Cheers guys,
I really hope that you ll have similar luck!
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I more curious about the reason for the others accepting me. The only reason i can think about
is that (and thats what i see in this forum) is that relatively few people applied to quant method as
a subfield.
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Accepted by Harvard Kennedy School of Government...
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Stanford:
$29,000/year
$3,500/summer (1 year)
$1,000 in discretionary funds
5 years health insurance
MIT:
22,500/year
2 quarters of TA-ship required
insurance
I ve never been to any of these places. How do the to packages compare in "purchasing power"?
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Also admitted to stanford, same conditions. Letter from Jackman. WTF?
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Wow,
just got into MIT
Welcome to the 2014-15 Cycle
in Political Science Forum
Posted
have these columbia emails come at exactly the same time and the lag is just people posting results at different time or are the mails coming with spaces?