No Idea Where To Apply??? Please Help!

merc81
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:49:44 +0000

(Last comment, #26, pre-posted)

@yinuos: You appear not to have even read the thread and you also appear to have some sort of agenda. The temporal relationships of the posts, in particular, seem to have been lost on you. (For example, the OP described her academic background and expressed her interest in playing collegiate softball before mentioning her tentative academic interests.)

Beyond that, your knowledge of political science programs and, for that matter, softball programs is nil. For you to have mentioned the schools you did (#12) without including Georgetown, George Washington, Notre Dame and, perhaps, Villanova shows this. And, if you don’t think a LAC with a term-lengh program in Washington might, just might, offer better opportunities for the study of domestic politics than can be found at a school, for example, such as Vanderbilt, then your bias may be beyond correction.

However, I, too, have been accused of bias from time to time . . . a few days ago it was a suggestion of favoritism toward Clarkson in my case. You, by appearances, seem to favor schools that are large and, as often as not, not extremely selective. So what? That can be either bias or preference.

Next, do you even realize you called a ranking of schools based entirely on student standardized scoring “subjective?”

As for “lol,” directed elsewhere, that’s often, ironically, the sign of a sadly weak interest in anything actually substantive.