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Fix your career gaze on becoming a political science professor by pursuing political science and math together! OVERVIEW
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So there has to be a catch?
Why am I trying to convince you to become a political science math wiz?
OK. You have me. I am trying to convince a number of my Emory undergraduates to study both political science and math so that they will then become graduate students in political science. Our jobs as professors would be much easier if we did not have to teach basic math skills to our graduate students. A number of my colleagues would give an arm and a leg to be able to work with undergraduate and graduate students who have significant levels of formal training in math.
If I can convince just a few of you to study both political science and math, and then if you would be willing to apply to our graduate program, we could teach you how to apply your math skills in amazingly creative ways. We could spend all of our time with truly cutting edge applications. You could do astoundingly innovative things. And then, we could work to place you in academic jobs all over the country. Depending only on your own creativity and hard work, you could become academic stars.
The consequence for our own program in political science is that we would soon be recognized for producing some of the most technically sophisticated academics in the country. This would help propel our already highly-ranked graduate program into one of the nation's most elite educational settings. You see, it is in our interest to make you a star.