2024-2025 Application Thread

[polisci119]

Has anyone here received news from Boston College? It's been a while since two rejections were posted.

[jaliren]

15 minutes ago, aurat278 said:

Have any other Columbia admits gotten visit weekend info beyond the initial email from the 14th?

I haven't even received a decision from Columbia lol. Assuming likely rejection at this point if they're already sending visit weekend info... 

[polisciad]

With Georgetown's visit RSVP approaching, is there any update on their decisions? I emailed them asking about it but couldn't get a reply. Not even sure how many people actually got in until now. 

[jaliren]

3 minutes ago, polisciad said:

With Georgetown's visit RSVP approaching, is there any update on their decisions? I emailed them asking about it but couldn't get a reply. Not even sure how many people actually got in until now. 

I'm also still waiting for a decision (IR subfield). Not sure why there are so many schools that don't send out all their decisions at once—seems like a strange approach. 

[PolSciComp]

50 minutes ago, jaliren said:

I'm also still waiting for a decision (IR subfield). Not sure why there are so many schools that don't send out all their decisions at once—seems like a strange approach. 

Georgetown is very bad when it comes to notify applicants about their application result 😞

[Heffalump27]

Does anyone have any info about stipend amounts, whats good, whats not. Are there ways to leverage more money?

I found this thread, but its a bit old. 

https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/28410-range-of-funding-for-polisci-programs/page/8/#comments
 

[JPYSD]

1 hour ago, Heffalump27 said:

Does anyone have any info about stipend amounts, whats good, whats not. Are there ways to leverage more money?

I found this thread, but its a bit old. 

https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/28410-range-of-funding-for-polisci-programs/page/8/#comments
 

What is good of course depends on your area, as schools in big and expensive cities naturally pay more than those in cheaper towns on the countryside.

But of course, it depends on overall wealth of the university and (!) the department. There is this very helpful website, where you can filter according to program, year and university: "phdstipends". But many entries are wrongly entered or trolls, so you need to find a trend and way through the lists (usually still quite possible).

Most t10-15 schools in bigger (more expensive) cities seem to have payed between 40k and 50k USD last year. That is at least my experience and a very good PhD stipend. Some of these schools are traditionally a bit stingy with money (Columbia, for example) while others are more generous. Often, private schools pay better than public ones. The trend is to pay more and admit less students.

The amounts get lower rather quickly in the "ranking", however.

To me as a European, those are still dream numbers. If they do at all (which at least half don't), most PhD programs there pay max. around the 20k mark (Switzerland is different). 

Edited 7 hours ago by JPYSD

[jaliren]

Finally got my Columbia rejection, lol

[polt29]

Has anyone been accepted/rejected to Yale for theory subfield? Just wondering since I still haven't heard anything (trying to be patient but it's hard as I haven't had positive news yet from any school). 

[i_kant_anymore]

2 hours ago, polt29 said:

Has anyone been accepted/rejected to Yale for theory subfield? Just wondering since I still haven't heard anything (trying to be patient but it's hard as I haven't had positive news yet from any school). 

Claiming rejection for Yale PT. Perhaps you're waitlisted?