2024-2025 Application Thread

[jaliren]

14 minutes ago, klajfjladshgl said:

they let us know today that the deadline to RSVP for their admit open house is Feb 26th (i'm political theory)

Weird -- I still haven't received a decision from Georgetown...wondering if I should assume rejection at this point? I'm IR

[PolSciComp]

11 minutes ago, jaliren said:

Weird -- I still haven't received a decision from Georgetown...wondering if I should assume rejection at this point? I'm IR

Did you send them email? I don't know why but Georgetown is one of the programs which is quite late in responding to the applicants 😕

[jaliren]

2 minutes ago, PolSciComp said:

Did you send them email? I don't know why but Georgetown is one of the programs which is quite late in responding to the applicants 😕

No, I haven't emailed -- I always figured it's not really helpful to do so. 

[Polisci882]

For Cornell applicants, I'm a 1st year PhD student in American Politics at Cornell. I received an email today from our Graduate Field Assistant that contained helpful info that I wanted to share. The email said that the department sent out its admission offers today (I still don't know for certain if waitlists or rejections have been sent out at this time), but I do believe all admission offers went out today. The department received 464 applications and admitted 18 people (6 in AP, 6 in Theory, 6 in CP). The department admitted fewer students than last year due to high yield last year & the department also did not admit anyone for IR this year. Admitted students will hear soon from the DGS and info has been sent out about the open house. 

 

It seems like this year was very very competitive -- I hope this info was helpful to people though! 

[i_kant_anymore]

5 hours ago, Polisci882 said:

For Cornell applicants, I'm a 1st year PhD student in American Politics at Cornell. I received an email today from our Graduate Field Assistant that contained helpful info that I wanted to share. The email said that the department sent out its admission offers today (I still don't know for certain if waitlists or rejections have been sent out at this time), but I do believe all admission offers went out today. The department received 464 applications and admitted 18 people (6 in AP, 6 in Theory, 6 in CP). The department admitted fewer students than last year due to high yield last year & the department also did not admit anyone for IR this year. Admitted students will hear soon from the DGS and info has been sent out about the open house. 

 

It seems like this year was very very competitive -- I hope this info was helpful to people though! 

Do you know if rejections/waitlists have been sent yet? Or if historically those are sent on a different date at Cornell? 

[jacksmith98798]

9 hours ago, Polisci882 said:

Hi everyone, congrats to the Cornell admits that got good news today. I've been lurking on this year's forum page... haha. I'm a current first-year PhD student at Cornell University in American Politics. I'm happy to answer any questions y'all may have about the Government department at Cornell

Hi. Can you please tell me if professors at Cornell appreciate being contacted before applicants apply for the program? If yes, is there any way to know which professors are on the admissions committee for the year? Also, the program says the GRE is not required, but have you seen it come into play in your cohort?

[jacksmith98798]

6 hours ago, jaliren said:

Weird -- I still haven't received a decision from Georgetown...wondering if I should assume rejection at this point? I'm IR

All silent on my "Government - International Relations" front as well. There's nothing on the GradCafe results page either for IR.

[edwardsaid]

Claiming an R from UCLA. It was an email to check portal. Welp.

[willienelson]

Any news on Harvard?

[polisci001]

27 minutes ago, willienelson said:

Any news on Harvard?

I haven’t heard anything + checked portal and there’s nothing there. There’s just that one weird “DEI” result 🤔

[i_kant_anymore]

Rise and shine! We live to see another day. Based on release dates next year, the next schools to release are the big names: Yale (2/20), Harvard (2/21), and Penn (2/23). So, hopefully, all results will be out by the end of the week!

Wishing everyone good luck with their remaining schools, and here's to hoping that at the very least, we'll all have a decent idea of how things look soon!

[Omkar Poojari]

55 minutes ago, polisci001 said:

I haven’t heard anything + checked portal and there’s nothing there. There’s just that one weird “DEI” result 🤔

Definitely a sick troll

Edited Wednesday at 02:07 PM by Omkar Poojari

[smoothoperator77]

Claiming American University Acceptance, CP subfield

[jaliren]

1 hour ago, i_kant_anymore said:

Rise and shine! We live to see another day. Based on release dates next year, the next schools to release are the big names: Yale (2/20), Harvard (2/21), and Penn (2/23). So, hopefully, all results will be out by the end of the week!

Wishing everyone good luck with their remaining schools, and here's to hoping that at the very least, we'll all have a decent idea of how things look soon!

I've got a good feeling about the next couple of days! 

[polisci001]

1 hour ago, i_kant_anymore said:

Rise and shine! We live to see another day. Based on release dates next year, the next schools to release are the big names: Yale (2/20), Harvard (2/21), and Penn (2/23). So, hopefully, all results will be out by the end of the week!

Wishing everyone good luck with their remaining schools, and here's to hoping that at the very least, we'll all have a decent idea of how things look soon!

Are the dates official or based on gradcafe posts?

[i_kant_anymore]

5 minutes ago, polisci001 said:

Are the dates official or based on gradcafe posts?

gradcafe posts  

[Heffalump27]

Is no news maybe good news? I still haven't heard from 7 schools, stressing. 

[nnb1]

In case anyone applied to UNC Chapel Hill and hasn’t received a response yet: send an email to the graduate studies coordinator! In my case, they confirmed my rejection (ouch), but they also mentioned that there’s an internal waitlist! I don’t know if anyone received a waitlist notification, but I haven’t seen anyone claiming it on GradCafe

[jaliren]

8 minutes ago, Heffalump27 said:

Is no news maybe good news? I still haven't heard from 7 schools, stressing. 

I'm waiting on 5 myself. It's not a rejection until it's a rejection...

[lala11]

59 minutes ago, Heffalump27 said:

Is no news maybe good news? I still haven't heard from 7 schools, stressing. 

Like @jaliren said, it’s not a rejection until it’s a rejection!

I received a waitlist notification yesterday for a school I was certain had rejected me. And I have 3 other schools I haven’t heard from that have sent out acceptances. There’s still hope lol

I’m hoping for good news for us both!

[jaliren]

3 hours ago, smoothoperator77 said:

Claiming American University Acceptance, CP subfield

Congrats! Do you plan to attend? I was accepted to the AU IR PhD program (within SIS). 

[smoothoperator77]

3 minutes ago, jaliren said:

Congrats! Do you plan to attend? I was accepted to the AU IR PhD program (within SIS). 

Thanks! I am still waiting for other schools and have not decided it yet. But I will attend if this is my only offer. 

[polisci8989]

4R/0A/6P

 

First application cycle. I haven't heard from Cornell  Its been tough. I have like great stats except for having a life-threatening disability. UGH. I have an ivy masters and tons of research experience and work experience and nope rejected by UofMinn, UChicago, Princeton, and MIT. I havent heard from Georgetown, UPENN, Cornell, Harvard, Hopkins, and Oxford. It is not looking too good.

 

I posted because I needed to vent. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:58 PM by polisci8989

[jaliren]

27 minutes ago, polisci8989 said:

4R/0A/6P

 

First application cycle. I haven't heard from Cornell  Its been tough. I have like great stats except for having a life-threatening disability. UGH. I have an ivy masters and tons of research experience and work experience and nope rejected by UofMinn, UChicago, Princeton, and MIT. I havent heard from Georgetown, UPENN, Cornell, Harvard, Hopkins, and Oxford. It is not looking too good.

 

I posted because I needed to vent. 

Still lots of places to hear from!

[JPYSD]

1 hour ago, polisci8989 said:

4R/0A/6P

 

First application cycle. I haven't heard from Cornell  Its been tough. I have like great stats except for having a life-threatening disability. UGH. I have an ivy masters and tons of research experience and work experience and nope rejected by UofMinn, UChicago, Princeton, and MIT. I havent heard from Georgetown, UPENN, Cornell, Harvard, Hopkins, and Oxford. It is not looking too good.

 

I posted because I needed to vent. 

I was accepted to Oxford last year (not going there, however, because I studied there before) and can tell you that DPIR usually takes until mid-late March to release their decisions (often in groups). And they have plenty of spots available. It is a great program, which gets better every year, and a perfect city to study at, but sadly, funding is still an issue for many. But I would be hopeful regarding it! Feel free to send me a message if you have questions 🙂

Edited Wednesday at 08:13 PM by JPYSD