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Just saw someone posted acceptance for Northwestern University, did anyone else received offer from Northwestern?

I'm glad I'm not the only one that called Yeah she gave me the exact same answer, hopefully more acceptances will be made over the next few days.

Did Chicago sent out all of their acceptances today? Wonder if there's anyone who applied to Chicago but haven't heard from them yet...

Got waitlisted for Penn State's Communication Arts and Sciences Is there anyone got admitted to CAS and is considering reject their offer?

I'm hearing conflicting things concerning the Columbia acceptance....are they really up this early? Seems a bit odd, did anyone got Columbia acceptance already?

Greetings y'all, Both me and my wife recently took the computer-based GRE, and my wife got the "unofficial" score of V164/Q146 by the end of her testing day. One week later, after checking her online score report, my wife was shocked that her "official" scores displayed on the ETS website are significantly lower than her "unofficial" scores: her "official" verbal score dropped 2 points to 162, and her official quantitative score dropped 6 points to 140! I've talked to many of my friends who took the GRE before and all of them told me that their "official" scores are the same as their "unofficial" test-day scores. I'm extremely perplexed by such extraordinary discrepancy, as I was convinced that the unofficial scores we receive on the test day should be the same as the official ones. At most, I thought the official score may deviate no more than 1 point from the unofficial ones, but 6 points? Does anyone know the possible reason for such extreme discrepancy? Did anyone else experienced similar problem with the official score report? Any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Greetings, I'm currently a grad student studying International Affairs at Penn State. I'm scheduled to receive my MIA degree after this semester, and planning to apply to PhD programs in political science this fall. Just recently took the new GRE today, 160V 159Q don't know the AW score yet. Undergrad GPA 3.2, Grad GPA 3.89. So far I'm not quite content with my statistical credentials, but as I noticed most people are applying the Pol.Sci PhD programs straight from undergrad, I'm wondering if my grad school experience and my expected MIA degree will give me any boost for my applications? Also do I definitely need to take the GRE again in order to have a decent chance of getting accepted somewhere? I'm not very happy with my new score, but I'm not exactly expecting to get into top 10 Psci programs. Personal interests matter more than ranking for me. For example I would be very happy to join PS programs in schools like Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Northwestern, as they have faculties within my area of interest, eventhough their PS programs are typically considered outside of top 20. Any input is appreciated, thanks!

Thanks for the tip, Johns Hopkins and Cornell seems to have some good faculties that fit my interest. Also, do you know anything about the political science dept at University of Maryland and CUNY Graduate Center?

You raised a really good point about streamlining the statement of purpose. I guess what I'm really interested is to apply the continental/conporary political philosophy into the IR theory, and I'm rather confused whether that would belong to "Political Theory" or "IR Relations", since most ply sci department do not have a focus of "IR theory" per se.

Hello everyone, Greetings, first post in this forum, hope everyone's doing well on their applications. I'm currently a graduate student completing my degree in Master of International Affairs at Penn State University, and I plan to apply for Political Science or Communications Ph.D programs for fall 2013. Before I get into the specific field I'm looking for, let me start with my academic background: Graduate: Penn State University, Master of International Affairs, GPA: 3.95 Undergrad: Drexel University, BA in International Studies, GPA 3.2 (Junior/Senior year GPA 3.8) GRE: Verbal 750, Quantitative 800, Analytic Writing 5.0 Work Experience: Worked as full-time student support office manager at Wharton School of Business for one and half years. Now, the area of research I want to get into is political theory and IR theory. I am not particularly enthusiastic about quantitative method/formal theory/rationalist model (which are the trade marks of my current school's political science dept); in contrast, I'm far more interested in qualitative research methods and post-positivist approach. I'm looking for a political science department with a culture of liberal arts and interdisciplinary approach, and hopefully have faculties that deal with contemporary political philosophy (post-modern, post-structuralist, constructivist, Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida etc.) and critical theory. So far I have found Brown, UC Berkley, and Northwestern have the political science department that seem fit my criteria, NYU's communications department also have critical theory focus. So I'm wondering if there are others out there with similar interest, and are aware of other schools that fit my description. Also, I have the burden of a relatively low undergrad GPA, I don't how how much that would hurt my chances of getting into a Ph.D program. I'm hoping that my GRE score and my graduate GPA may upset the disadvantage of the undergrad GPA... Any input / suggestion will be greatly appreciated, thank you all!