Political Science Applicant Profiles

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Hi all,

My gf is applying for Ph.D. programs next year and I was looking at these boards. There is really no good source for applicant profiles for political science. Math and physics have the following:

http://www.physicsgr....php?f=3&t=1847

http://www.mathemati...c.php?f=1&t=357

Both were really good resources when I applied myself. I was hoping that you people could fill out something similar... Just copy the template from the math thread and fill in the details.

Thanks.

[poli90]

<-- Has most of that info.

[curufinwe]

Undergrad: Bilkent University (Business Admin.), GPA 3.93 (valedictorian)

Grad: Sabanci University (MA in Polisci), GPA 3.71

(both pretty good schools in Turkey, but then again, who cares about'em when there are tons of ivy league graduates? )

Full scholarships for both universities.

GRE: 690V, 800Q, AW: 5

TOEFL iBT: 117/120

LORs: 1 from a good professor, others will do.

SOP: I feel like it was rather dull, nothing striking or dazzling. (damn you 500 words limit)

No proper research experience other than my class papers.

Writing Sample: a paper for my comparative politics class. Good approach, but since it was a paper for a class, it wasn't as thorough as I wanted it to be.

Method: got intense maths and statistics classes and a formal modeling class (received A for all).

Applied to, Rejected, Accepted... follow my signature.

Edited February 9, 2010 by curufinwe

[natofone]

There is a really large one of these from last year if you search a few pages back.