<p>Does anyone know when RD notifications will be released…especially OOS?</p>
<p>unfortunately, not until April 1…maybe March 31 since its a friday.</p>
<p>We’re all anxious, so just hang in there</p>
<p>RD are on April 1st online and will be mailed out on April first, so if you applied online, you can find out online. If not, you’ll find out a few days later via regular mail.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if transfer applicants last year found out earlier than May 1st?</p>
<p>Do you know how to find out online?</p>
<p>i saw somewhere that transfer decisions were mailed around april 17th last year… but they werent put online until may 1st. eeek im so worried.</p>
<p>i am too… you go to virginia tech, right?</p>
<p>i think im probably going to wait until I get it in the mail (as long as that happens before apr 3)</p>
<p>it would be more exciting</p>
<p>yea i go to tech</p>
<p>me too… is this your first year?</p>
<p>yea im a freshman</p>
<p>me too… whats your major? im political science</p>
<p>yea im poli sci too</p>
<p>really? what polisci classes are you in this semester</p>
<p>just compt govt right now, im trying to get rid of my core requirements</p>
<p>oh i took that last semester… this semester im taking research methods which is a lot harder than i thought and congress, which is a lot of fun</p>
<p>yea i wanted to sign up for congress next semester cause ive worked there (even though i hopefully wont be here) but its only in an online form so i signed up for national security and political communication instead. what do you do in reasearch methods?</p>
<p>basically we all are assigned research topics towards the beginning of the year. then, you have to form an original theory and hypothesis, compile literature to support your hypes, and then run data analysis using SPSS and the National Election Studies. Thats the main part of the course, and in the end, you produce a group presentation and a paper. Other than that, you study how political scientists do research. There is a lab section everyweek and a corresponding lab assignment. I wouldn’t say that the class is like WHOA hard, but its more time consuming than any other class I’ve had. Right now I’m working on my paper which is about democratic candidates in presidential elections, political ideologies, government spending on social security, and trying to connect all of it.</p>
<p>yea that sounds cool. i always saw it on course request but never really took the time to see exactly what it was about</p>
<p>well i really didnt want to take it this semester, but i didnt have a choice… you have to take it before youre in junior standing, and next year i will be… i came in with like 38 credits, so basically im way ahead and didnt have to take any core requirements… it was pretty sweet. Im actually only like 12 classes away from completing a major and minor… and i want to transfer and put myself behind… go figure</p>
<p>I think you just login to your online application… which just started working again for me tonight.</p>
<p>It says the decision will be available around april 1st, so that could be a little before/after maybe? hopefully before.</p>