Best schools for me to apply?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey as my junior year closes out I want to kind of come up with a list of colleges I want to apply to.....I live in CA (Bay Area) and I want to major in Poli Sci(could substitute with intl. relations)/South Asian Studies.......These are the schools I came up with so far, if I could get any input from anyone who knows anything about schools that would be good for my major or about any of the schools I am applying to that would be extremely helpful</p>

<p>My "Dream Schools"
1. Columbia University (though no formal South Asian Studies program, there are alot of courses pertinent to South Asia and they have a strong Poli. Sci. Dept.)
2. University of Chicago </p>

<p>Schools that I wouldn't mind going to
1. UC Berkeley
2. Boston U. (No South Asian Studies, but strong IR)
3. Tufts University
4. Syracuse (Budding South Asian Studies Dept. and strong Poli Sci./IR)</p>

<p>Safety Schools
1. UC Santa Cruz
2. University of Washington (though I dont know how much of a safety this will be because I am out of state)
3. San Francisco State</p>

<p>I dont want to know my admission chances and blah blah......there is just way too much unpredicatability concerning apps. that I just dont care....I kinda want to focus on which schools to apply to and schools that would actually develop my intellectualy capability (seems like people dont care about that anymore).....any thoughts/comments/possibilities of other schools would be excellent</p>

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<p>forgot to include Santa Clara University as a safety school</p>

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<p>Int. Relations and Poli Sci are very different</p>

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<p>even as a highschool student i can disagree with you. they're very similar, although they are somewhat different. it's not like chemistry versus literature or anything. i mean yeah IR is foreign interactions, but polisci is american, and a lot of your classes will overlap</p>

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<p>I think you have a good list so far. I hear Tufts is very good for IR.</p>

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<p>UWashington isnt much of a safety for out-of-staters. A girl recently made news by getting rejected with a 3.75 IB Diploma, NHS etc. and she was in-state. Take a look at UW's campus before applying there, the place around it is great but the campus isn't too great itself (in my opinion).</p>

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<p>DrewOO: I understand what you are saying but I am most likely going to do a comparative politics or intl. relations poli sci. degree if i am going to do one.....in columbia's case they dont offer a seperate ir degree but nonetheless have a strong IR specialization within the poli. sci degree</p>

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<p>also at right wing said there is alot overlapping as globalization is bringing the globe closer together</p>

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<p>PediatricHopeful: I was looking at U Washington's acceptance rate and its pretty high.....do you know why that girl got rejected (lack of ec's and stuff?)</p>