Question about internships/work experience before graduate school

PoliSciGuy94
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:29:39 +0000

I see that MPP/MPA programs revolve around students’ experiences etc., and that I should wait until I have a few years of work experience before considering applying.

As for why I don’t do extracurriculars, I will answer this again and hope that this part of the conversation is settled quickly considering it doesn’t have much pertinence to graduate school admission. It’s not an excuse that there are only nutty groups on campus, it’s a fact. Without giving away too much about where I go to school, it’s a commuter school whose students don’t have much interest in sticking around after class. Those who do stick around and form clubs, it would naturally follow and is demonstrated in the selection of clubs at my school, will be people of a more radical nature. If I wanted to form a group, I doubt I would even be able to scramble together four other people. And besides, I didn’t ask for ways to make my college experience better :)

As for applying to jobs, I see the advantage of having internships and will try to find some for the summer (my schedule is too tight in the Spring in terms of class time distribution).