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Originally Posted by peter12
Holy ****. Good for you! How tough was it to get into LES?
I'm sort of in the middle of a BA Honours Poli Sci degree at the UofC.
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I'm actually quite surprised/happy/scared after my acceptance to the LSE. It is pretty tough to get in - in 2004, there were 1349 applications for 69 spots.
IR is the most competitive program at the school, and is generally regarded as the top non-North American program; I have seen a ranking that places it on par with Johns Hopkins' SAIS, Harvard's Kennedy School, and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, and ranked higher than the programs at Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge. LSE itself is a really good school too, it was ranked as the second-best school in the world for social sciences (behind Harvard), and eleventh-overall in the world. Needless to say, I'm very surprised I got accepted, and will likely get my clock cleaned by my classmates next year.
How do you like the UofC program? I took two years at MRC and liked the faculty quite a bit. Are you planning on going to grad school afterwards?