What can you tell me about A&Ms grad school (Bush School and/or Poli Sci)

No mention of the Mays Business School?

I doubt this site has enough A&M traffic - especially from grad students - to get you much of a response. My best suggestion, and most here are going to cringe, is to go to Texags Academics board and ask the same questions. It's an open board that anyone can respond so you are more likely to get a good and knowledgeable response. There's a lot of schtick on there but I think the Academics board is pretty straightforward.

Good luck to you! And it sounds like a great time to be going to A&M since our series will be starting that same year

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go to Texags

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Telling someone to go to Texags is a polite way of saying 'Go frick yourself.' I shall use this phrase in the future.

Pigimus 'Ag' might be your best bet if you have questions on the admissions process.

Yet again, my political science undergrad degree feels so fricking useless.

Best of luck to you, GarnetWay.

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I know they had their pick of internships, both in DC and abroad in the summer and they all had several impressive job offers upon graduation. It seems like a great progra

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This is something I like to hear. If I read correctly the Poli Sci program, outside of the Bush Schools, pays its Grad students to do research / teach. This was good news to hear because all throughout undergrad I've had to work at small-time jobs for rent and stuff like that. If I can wrap school in as a job I'd be set.

I think Agmus Prime gets paid pretty good to do research as a grad student

Pigimus probably has some good insight on this, I'll point this thread out to him if I see him post.

Welcome Garnet, glad you finally got in here.

Hi, just saw this. Let us just say these are questions I am quite qualified to answer.

There is a large difference between the Bush School and political science. One is an applied degree that trains students for primarily government jobs. The other is a research degree that trains PhDs for academic jobs. Both have good reputations in their fields. You really need to decide what your goals are. If you think you may want to work for the government or are not sure about a PhD then do the Bush school first. The political science department does not offer a stand alone MA as many do. On the other hand many students finish the PhD in 4-5 years, which is quite below the average for the discipline.

As for your questions, this is what I know.

Both programs are extremely competitive. I think the Bush School also does interviews. To my knowledge neither program offers published minimums for the GRE or GPA but my guess would be that a 3.0-3.5 would be the minimum as most students going to grad school have high GPAs. I know that political science takes a very holistic approach to admissions. That means that they look at all parts of the application including statements, letters, grades, scores and writing samples. Strong performance on some of these can offset weaknesses in others. Believe it or not the most important part of the GRE for political science is the quantitative portion as there is much training in statistics and mathematical modeling. A&M's department is a leader for this type of training in political science. On the other hand high GRE scores are often found to not be good predictors of performance in graduate school.

Beyond this we may want to communicate off of here if information gets any more personal. Either way let me know if I can answer more questions and welcome to the board.

No thank you, I certainly never went to grad school

I don't know what could possibly go wrong with letting people who post on both Texags and the Rant know your true identities. frick you guys if you don't trust us.