It is grad school application season time and I've had a couple of applicants ask me about the process, picking the right schools and life as a graduate student. Here's a thread on things to keep in mind when you apply to grad school in the US as an international student. 1/n Most often I get asked why I chose political science. My answer to that is simple -- Given my background in Econ, I knew that an Econ PhD in the US would be too mathy for my liking and the questions I was interested in could easily be answered in Political Science easily. 2/n