The deadlines for Fall 2017 application are almost here and a lot of you are in the process of working on your admission essays. The second essay for this cycle (Fall 2017/Spring 2018) asks applicants to express their views about a policy-related question. This is a mandatory essay and the prompt for this changes every year. So PA Sadia Afreen thought it was a good idea to share her take on this year’s prompt and some advice on how you can approach writing it.
In this guest post SIPA graduate and licensed real estate salesperson Melissa Amin Diaz shares her advice on how incoming students can snag the best New York City apartment in their budget.
The letters of recommendation from the right people address your potential and strengthen your application, thus boosting your chance of getting into good programs. However, the process of getting the good letters could be also stressful. Here are some tips on how to best navigate that process from one of our current students.
If you’re visiting New York City for the first time (or are a return visitor), there are plenty of things to do within the city. But Admissions PA Meagan Barrera says you shouldn’t limit yourself to just Manhattan as there are things to do across the five boroughs. In today’s blog post, Meagan shares her favorite Brooklyn sites and eats.
This semester I enrolled in a new course offered by SIPA’s Gender a Public Policy Specialization called Gender and Armed Conflict: Contemporary Theory and Practice for Advocates. The course is taught by Lisa Davis who is a Clinical Professor of Law for the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law. She…
