Graduate School Admission Results

no funding; hopeful result

Interview on campus with professor.

MS - Data Science for Public Policy. $11.5K scholarship per year

MS - Computational Analysis & Public Policy. $20K scholarship per year.

Email saying: "We would like to invite you to talk with an alum of our program to hear first-hand experiences of “life at Pardee RAND” and discuss how your interests, experience, and passions might fit with our program. This voluntary conversation would be by phone or in person (e.g., workplace or café), depending on your location, and would be an informal chat of about 30-45 minutes." I also got a second email, dismissing me from the interview because I had a PhD candidate as a reference, so they assumed I already had familiarity with the program.

$15k

Straight from undergraduate, with a mediocre GPA.

Accepted w/o funding

Phone interview on 1/17. Offered a spot in the MPA program.

w/o funding

full funding for three years

Undergrad average: 6.7 out of 10. Civil servant, 36 years, 5+ years of professional experience. Shortlisted for World Bank scholarship.

I received an email inviting me to their campus, but I haven't received notifications such as interview, offer or WL. Does that mean campus interview?

Pretty sure this is another one of the generic admissions emails that have been getting sent out over the past few weeks about admission events. Pretty poorly worded if you ask me, I got really excited when I saw the email at first.

TPB: so do you mean almost everyone would receive this generic email? I haven't heard anyting from that program...But the email does not mean admit, right?

Invited for Campus Visit Day. Not attending as I'm an international applicant (and I also have classes currently).

The email does not mean admit. I might be getting those emails because I live in the area and they flagged me as likely to attend events or something. I wouldn't worry about not getting them, I doubt they mean anything.