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Wow, this is absurd. I am glad I have decided not to go.

I got the news as well...not good, unfortunately. Good luck, everyone.

I just called them yesterday and they told me that the decisions have been made, but "not everyone has received the information" yet. The guy asked for my information and told me I should hear by tomorrow. Today is a holiday in France, so no chance of any news today anyway. Anyone else hear anything?

Still nothing on my end.

...I really don't understand.

Well, almost 5 p.m. French time and no word. :-/

I can't believe how long they are taking. It seems they are trying to position themselves as one of Europe's big IR schools (particularly given the partnerships they have with LSE, Columbia, etc.). If they want to compete, then they've seriously got to start giving responses/scholarship info before potential attendees are required to make their attendance decisions for other schools.

I was also accepted a few weeks ago (after a very long wait) and was told that I would know about the Emile Boutmy scholarship by "the end of April." Now I e-mailed them and they told me "by May." I had e-mailed UCL awhile back and asked if I could postpone the date I needed to accept by and they said I could put it off until the first week of May...so we'll see.

Still waiting over here...got the status update yesterday saying it's "admissible" and has been passed on to the selection committee. I am trying to figure out who has been looking at it all this time if not the selection committee?

The whole TopApply system is just kind of weird. I had e-mailed to make sure all my recommendations were in and they got back to me today saying that everything is fine and they will be looking at the application soon, so I gather everything is on track.

Hmm so when they told me that the recommendation was missing, the status at the bottom of the TopApply page was "sans recommandation". Now there is no status at the bottom, but at the top it says "Votre candidature a ete validee", which I believe is different that what it said before. So...does that mean the application is in and I'm good to go?

I got an e-mail from them updating me because one of my profs hasn't sent in his recommendation (which he promised he would do more than a month ago). He's gone MIA, not responding to e-mails. I don't get it. Going to call him today and tomorrow to try and figure out what's up. (Kind of annoying with the time difference.) I presume "admissable" means that all of your documents and recommendations are in. ETA: And in French "admissable" means "eligible", so yeah...I guess it is eligible to be looked at by the committee.

I've been looking around for Sciences Po acceptance criteria and I see some familiar names here. Might as well try to get some opinions here as well. Firstly, a logistical question: The Web site says the last date to be considered for the Emile-Boutmy scholarship is March 13. I had originally presumed that those who applied earlier might be offered a place early, but would not be given financial aid until after all candidates were reviewed. However, I have seen that candidates in past years have been accepted and offered scholarship money quite early (December/January). I am going to apply by sometime next week, but will I have lost out on available scholarship funding due to applying this "late"? I would like to apply to the Master's in International Public Management at PSIA. Here are the basic academic qualifications: B.A. from American in DC, Print Journalism and German language/Minor in International Studies GPA: 3.75 GRE: 730V 720Q 5W I don't think they care so much about GRE. As far as languages and "international experience", I have lived in Germany for a total of two years and in Austria for one (I got a Fulbright teaching assistantship) and my German has been rated at the C2 level by European standards. I also studied abroad in Turkey during university and have now been living in Turkey for nearly two years working at a consulting and publishing company, editing and occasionally writing economic forecasts for developing and emerging economies. My Turkish is at something like the B2 level. I've also had a lot of other random jobs and internships, generally in the communications field. My major weakness, as I see it, is that my senior thesis isn't so great. One of those cases in which the research didn't really come together as I wanted or expected it to. I didn't get a bad grade, but it is not my best work, nor is it really relevant to the type of career I hope to pursue. I have discussed this with Admissions and they told me to feel free to attach some other writing samples that might be a better representation of my interests (such as the economic analyses I've written for work). I am interested in switching gears and getting into more NGO work (possibly still in a communications capacity) and I find myself more and more drawn to researching transparency issues and journalistic freedom (observing the rather frightening conditions for journalists in Turkey will do that to you, heh). I feel that the IPM Master's is really perfectly aligned with what I want out of a program -- continued focus on languages (I am determined to learn French, which is what I would be taking for the language component), a wide array of quantitative methods/analysis courses, an opportunity to pursue a concentration in the Middle East and an internship or study abroad opportunity. Anyway, could anyone who's been accepted tell me a little bit about themselves? Will a lack of French knowledge hurt me a lot here? What about my thesis predicament?