<p>Whats the process like if someone wanted to ask for a one year deferral for a particular program? Are you still guaranteed your admission offer? Does the process vary by school?</p>
<p>I got into my second choice but not my first. Wanted to strengthen my app and apply again possibly. Is that a good idea even? hmmm....anything advice helps.</p>
<p>I don't know this for certain, but it wouldn't make sense for graduate schools to allow deferrals of any kind. They refigure their numbers every year, and when you're accepted you're accepted based on the funding they have, the faculty available, et cetera, et cetera. With so many variables, a program that lets you defer a year is going to be a rarity.</p>
<p>What is the big gap between your first and second choice that makes you want to risk losing your second choice so much?</p>
<p>Graduate schools with which I'm familiar do not permit deferrals.</p>
<p>Acceptance of deferrals definitely varies by program, and sometimes by school. In other words, each department has their own policy. </p>
<p>Many graduate programs do not offer deferrals -- mine included.</p>
<p>I got accepted into LSE, rejected from the GPPI program at Georgetown. Was thinking about doing LSE or my second option Johns Hopkins, or giving Georgetown another shot.</p>
<p>LSE is a MA degree in Public and Economic Policy.
Johns Hopkins is an MA in IR.
While Georgetown is a MPP-Public Policy.</p>
<p>Any advice? Should I just go with LSE? I plan on probably working in an EU institute afterwards anyway, have duel American and Polish citizenship. Or possibly World Bank. I just don't know very much about LSE.</p>
<p>IR is not my field, but isn't JHU by far the better program? </p>
<p>(Forgive me if it is not the better program for your intended area of focus - I have no way of knowing what your interests are.)</p>
<p>You may want to post this query on the SAIS thread -- folks in IR will surely be of more help.</p>
<p>No I agree, I think JHU is the better program for IR. I'm trying to find a common unit of measure to weigh the MA degree in LSE against the MA in IR degree in JHU. End goal is prob EU institution/World Bank-policy research/implementation. Dunno if IR or an MA degree is better. I'll have to give the IR thread another read-through.</p>