<p>W&M and Hopkins are tops for IR.</p>
<p>Averages are a terrible indicator of almost any quantitate summary. Averages are greatly affected by outliers, and schools like Princeton accept many “outliers” who fall below their financial aid cutoffs where they give them lots of fin. aid, something like 150k. Sadly, I, part of the upper middle class, gets squeezed in this scenario because I am deemed able to pay that 240k over 4 years, yet that means loans on my end</p>
<p>Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>With UVA, W&M and VCU honors as your in-state choices you are very fortunate - and they set a very high baseline for anything else, especially if you want to stay near DC. For lots of merit, you are probably looking at schools that are less attractive than your in-state options.</p>
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<p>What I cited are averages only for students who take out education loans (not averages for all students who attend those schools). So they are not reduced by students who don’t borrow at all.</p>
<p>Hard to turn down W&M in state. Esp if op wants IR and Biochem, two top depts.</p>
<p>bump please</p>
<p>bump please</p>
<p>add davidson college to your tour when you visit duke in NC (if you do not mind frats)
muhlenebrg college a great all around school in PA , has a joint bachelors/md with drexel and another program available junior year to get into temple med school.
u of rocheter has a bs/md I think and is a great school and vanderbilt and rice ain’t to shabby either!</p>
<p>Foreign Policy magazine’s take on the top IR programs:</p>
<p>[The</a> Top Ten International Relations Undergraduate Programs | Foreign Policy](<a href=“http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/top_ten_international_relations_undergraduate_programs?page=0,0]The”>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/top_ten_international_relations_undergraduate_programs?page=0,0)
[Inside</a> the Ivory Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Ivory_Tower]Inside”>Inside the Ivory Tower - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>(Still, I agree w/ M’s Mom and swish14 about UVa and W&M.)</p>
<p>While I have this thread open, I just got my subject SAT scores back:</p>
<p>Math 2: 790
World History:770</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Bad, good? Should I retake Math 2?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>bump please</p>