clairemaggot Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Hello I will be applying for a Phd in political science to start in the fall of 2016 and I would be extremely grateful for any comment, advice and/or evaluation of my profile. I come from a reknown European school, 4th econ deparment Europe, 20th worldwide Test Scores (GMAT/GRE): 163 Q/ 161V Undegrad GPA: 3.3 international management Graduate GPA: 3.5 economics (relevant courses : grad mathematics, statistics and econometrics, applied microeconometrics, development econ and political economics) Research Experience: 1 year with tenured professor ( and still working on future published paper) department of decision sciences, 5 months field work in west Africa, 4 months with public policy professor, 4 months tenured political science professor. Wrote master thesis with well know tenured development and political econ professor. Teaching Experience: none Work Experience: United Nations ESCAP 4 months researcher, Grameen Bank Dhaka 1 months Concentration Applying to: Comparative politics Number of programs planned to apply to: 15 Dream Schools: NYU, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, UCSD What made you want to pursue a PhD: deep interest in the subject and desire to carry out my own research Concerns you have about your profile: my GRE score might be too low, and my GPA as well, we don't get awarded grades out of a 4.0 scale, it is very hard to convert grades Any additional specific questions you may have: Would like to know where I would be competitive based on my profile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chateauheart Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 FYI, this is the first post in 4 months in this subforum. Political sciences admissions questions are currently aggregated on another forum called gradcafe, I suspect due to increasing returns to scale. Ask there and you will get some answers. From what I can tell, this is a fairly competitive profile for the top 20 programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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