Chances for Poli Sci Ph.D

[mox]

The reason this board is dead is you simply cant get answers to ANYTHING, its pretty sad how it becomes some other topic. I would suggest college confidential or the likes for better answers to your questions.

[Minnesotan]

Do polisci programs even look at the quantitative scores? I thought they would be more interested in the verbal.

[flyingwalrus]

Unless you're prospective field is political theory, the quantitative score is by far the most important. Political science is highly quantitative. Lots of stats and mathematical modeling.

[Minnesotan]

Bah! Everybody knows words are more important than numbers. =)

[neonmeatte]

I strongly disagree - this varies from department to department. Some schools are very quantitative and others are less so. I would imagine they judge scores based on the focus of their own department...

For schools like Berkeley - schools with strong theoretical and quantitative backgrounds - I would imagine they put it on the research interests of the applicant. Granted, your scores must be pretty high in general to get into Berkeley... but if you are planning to study game theory or empirical correlates of war then they probably pay attention to your math, whereas if you are studying something like the social impact of political reform in West Africa then I don't think this is the case at all.

[Minnesotan]

I was actually making a joke, but okay. I guess people in the humanities shouldn't tease people in the social sciences - they don't take the time to teach humor to political scientists at the undergraduate level. =)

[UndraftedFreeAgent]

We economists got it, and we're basically applied mathematicians who occasionally use letters for things other than variables. hahaha.

[neonmeatte]

Unless you're prospective field is political theory, the quantitative score is by far the most important. Political science is highly quantitative. Lots of stats and mathematical modeling.

Sorry, my former comment was actually directed at flyingwalrus... I didn't quote.

[farty14]

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/polisciapps/