Political Science Ph.D. Admissions Results - Where to Go?

Graduate School
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<p>My history:</p>

<p>BA from Wisconsin (Madison) in International Studies GPA 3.3
GRE 710 V 680 Q 5.0 AW
Pursuing MA at Marquette University GPA 4.0
One MPSA Conference Paper
3 outstanding LORs</p>

<p>I applied to 11 schools:</p>

<p>Cornell - Still waiting for response
Brown - Still waiting for response
McGill (Canada)- accepted with funding
Wisconsin - rejected
Minnesota - alternate (high on list)
Ohio State - rejected
Boston University - accepted with funding
University of Washington - accepted/alternate for funding
Kansas - accepted with funding
New Mexico - accepted with funding
North Texas - accepted with funding (no tuition remission)</p>

<p>Right now McGill is at the top of my list of schools to go to of those that have accepted me. Is anyone a grad student at McGill from the US? Can you tell me what it is like living in Montreal? The visa process? </p>

<p>For anyone, how would you rank the schools that I have been accepted to? Which one would you put at the top of the list?</p>

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<p>Look at professors and their research interests. Is there a specific faculty member you’d like to work with?</p>

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<p>I’m particularly interested in working with Vincent Pouliot at McGill. I’m really thinking McGill is the place to go at this point. I’m just worried a little about the visa process and the complications of going to a university outside of the US, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. One thing is that McGill is in Montreal which is a French-dominant city. I’ll be taking my future wife (getting married in July this year) and I want to make sure there are jobs for monolingual English speakers. Other than those concerns, I’m all about McGill!</p>

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<p>Job opportunities for unilingual anglophones (that is the term used in Qu</p>

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<p>Most of people are bilingual in Qu</p>