<p>posterx, thanks for the list! do you know where georgetown and tufts are? anyway, yea i'd looooovveee to go to yale but haha i doubt ill be able to get in.</p>
<p>dittogal,</p>
<p>Tufts has a good program, as does Georgetown.</p>
<p>Don't worry too much about your major, but worry more about the overall quality of the school and the "fit." It's more important that you're offered great resources and an environment that you'll excel in than a few ranks difference.</p>
<p>I think stanford has the best combination of your two programs</p>
<p>how would you guys consider oxford university in poly sci (i believe they just call it politics over there, it's not a science) but regardless, anyone know? because i think i'm going to get a minor in poly sci and study some classes over in england at Oxford.</p>
<p>Oxford is a great program. In England, also look at Cambridge and LSE.</p>
<p>tufts' fletcher school has an international relations program that's somewhat joined with harvard i think.
can't beat that.</p>
<p>Even independent of Harvard, Fletcher is an amazing program.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins also has a first rate IR program. Undergraduates have a variety of serious study abroad options including a junior year doing graduate level work at the SAIS (Hopkins' graduate School of Advanced International Studies) center in Bologna, Italy. I have a son in the program who will be returning from his year in Italy tomorrrow.</p>
<p>would anyone happen to know how selective the johns hopkins IR program is? because i'm really interested in that, tufts, georgetown, and george washington. </p>
<p>i SERIOUSLY doubt ill be able to get into stanford and yale tho. my dream schools...</p>
<p>anyway, can anyone give me more info on the London School of economics and poli science program?</p>
<p>thanks for all the help so far!</p>
<p>Ok so for somebody like me, what are the best schools that aren't Ivies, Georgetown, Stanford and others of those top schools.</p>
<p>posterX, I'm tempted to point to the fact that the President gets to appoint ambassadors (w/ Senate confirmation, of course) & the President is a Yale alum...This means it's more variable over different Pres. terms because most go to diff unis (except recently, Yale's had a big monopoly on Pres. candidiates)...also, much of the ambassador-appointing that goes on is because of connections. So all East Coast schools are probably all ideal for that.</p>
<p>american university for those who arent reaching for top notch schools. macalester is also a not-as-selective lac.</p>
<p>I believe Fletcher is incredibly overrated, especially at the undergrad level. Any of the top 20 poli sci schools are most likely a better deal.</p>
<p>Which is amazing, as the Fletcher School is ONLY graduate. And, it has nearly always been viewed as one of the best American IR schools.Undergrad-wise, It works with Tufts Undergrad to create some of the best IR/IS programmes in the country(if you can get in to Tufts, like GU, in the first place)</p>
<p>Any significant IR job (including all jobs at the Dept. of State, and most at the UN), and all graduate schools will require fluency in two languages other than English. Be sure you check out the language departments at each school carefully - it is single biggest reason folks leave IR graduate programs without a degree.</p>
<p>mini,</p>
<p>Are you sure about that? I got into two of the top ten IR programs, and I'm only fluent in one other language.</p>
<p>And I met a lady at NSA who only had one other than English under her belt.</p>
<p>Kind of off topic but...what's the difference between majoring in IR and majoring in poli sci with a concentration in IR?</p>
<p>Wesleyan, Mt. Holyoke, Connecticut, and Georgetown for IR.</p>
<p>TECHY101,</p>
<p>At the undergrad level, it's usually very small.</p>
<p>"Are you sure about that? I got into two of the top ten IR programs, and I'm only fluent in one other language."</p>
<p>To get OUT (Ph.D.), not to get in.</p>
<p>At State Department, Rice has now made it clear that those without two languages will be passed over for promotions, and is sending lots of folks back to school.</p>
<p>(NSA is filled with political appointees, but I think you'll see change there soon as well.)</p>