Political Science Graduate School Admission Results

Interview request from Professor

Ivy undergrad, significant private and public sector experience

First person to report here for LSE this cycle! Had been put on the reserve list last cycle since I applied late. Reinstated my app after, and then now, received my result: waitlist (for now). This is what they said: "Stronger applications may be placed on the waiting list when the selectors wish to see more applications to gain a better idea of the applicant pool before making a final decision. At times when academic staff may be away, such as Christmas, the waiting list option may also be used. When your application is sent back to the selectors for final consideration, you may be made an offer of admission or your application may be unsuccessful. Please be aware that although your application was considered strong enough to be placed on the waiting list, either outcome is still possible." Hmmm. Anyone got accepted? I'm hopeless lol.

Reserve list

No email, checked the website on a Sunday and was accepted. Very excited, my dream program. Best of luck to everyone waiting!

I applied by the admission deadline, January 15th and got my admission notification 3 weeks later. The admission came with a Teaching Assistantship. I am going to accept the offer. GRE is required.

Rejected without interview. LLM with Distinction from LSE. Received the standard rejection and another e-mail suggesting me to apply for the PhD in Gender Studies as my proposal was about feminist legal theory. My guess is that the intersection between feminism and legal theory is lacking at the moment in LSE and I only got one professor to support my application (You need to have 2 professors as your supervisors that support your application). I was accepted by Oxford for their DPhil in Law and I am currently waiting to hear about funding from them.

Standard rejection.

As others, Ignore Interview - submitted March 4th, still have yet to hear a peep, but have noticed the deadline was extended to June. Losing my mind checking the portal 500 times a day. Not my favorite feeling.

TTPB: Congratulations on your offer. Don't take the offense to the following statements - just trying to save you time in the future. I attended a peer school to CBS, and it's highly unlikely you will get an offer from either CBS or HBS. Your GPA is well into the bottom 10%, your GRE is likely below the lowest in the class (and GREs were largely used as a backdoor for admissions until recently), and it sounds like you have no work experience. I would recommend getting 3 to 7 years under your belt before applying and showing a strong trajectory. Otherwise, you are just gifting them application fees.

Hello, fellow Columbia polisci MA rejects...I mean, applicants. This is the same person that left the comment on May 8th. Today is May 10th and Columbia finally reached back. I have been rejected. Our long arduous journey of waiting has finally come to an unfortunate end. I suppose when a university takes this long to provide a response it only signifies the applicant has been rejected...who knows? Anyway...Columbia was the last university on my list I needed to hear back from. I've accepted an offer of admission from American University in Washington, D.C., therefore, for the next two years of my life, I'll be residing in America's capital instead of America's City (AKA New York City). I have ambitions of one day attending a top business school after completing my first master's degree and now that I have much experience in riding this roller coaster of applying to graduate schools I will use my newfound knowledge to return to Columbia and apply to Columbia Business School. I swear it...I will return and, this time, I will return victoriously (however, if I apply to Harvard Business School and get accepted by them, then I will reject Columbia's offer of admission just like how they rejected me today). To everyone out there that was rejected this year, I know it hurts and you all probably feel like you're not good enough. Please, don't believe that for a second...I am here to say you are all great! Keep your heads held high, never give up, and years from now, show the world why Columbia University made a disastrous mistake today.