Teach me about grad admissions

jmleadpipe
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:10:12 +0000

As Ari mentioned, he is a student in IR so he doesn’t gain anything by talking smack about his own field. The feeling I get, in regards to Aris application process, however, is that he looked at the top programs and found them fairly enticing, but than stepped back, took a look at his future prospects and said “I probably woN,t be making 120K a year, so why should I take out a 70K loan to pay for school?” He ended up at a top program anyways, but one that is WAYYY more affordable than SAIS or KSG.

As I said before, most people will not make big bucks of their IR degrees, which is okay, because there are great jobs in the field that pay alright money and are really enriching at the same time. However, alot of those jobs you don’t need a degree from KSG to land.