College List?

All my stats are below and I am not quite sure what schools to apply to, I am thinking about GW or BU. What other college whether it be safeties, targets or reaches do you think I should apply to.

White female

Intended major: Political Science
W GPA: 3.74
ACT: 32 (retaking it in September)
SAT II: Took in June, haven’t gotten scores (took US history, World history, and Bio E)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Took APUS History (5), APES (4) , AP Psych, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics,
Classes Taken
Freshman Year

  • English 9 Enriched
  • World Hist/Cult Enriched
  • Algebra I
  • Biology Enriched
  • Mandarin I
  • Business Law
  • International Business
    Sophomore Year
  • English 10 Enriched
  • U.S. History I Honors
  • Sociology
  • Geometry
  • Chemistry Enriched
  • Mandarin Chinese III (teacher thought I showed enough talent to skip a level)
  • Accounting I Honors
    Junior Year
  • English 11 Honors
  • AP Psychology
  • AP U.S. History
  • AP Economics
  • Algebra II Enriched
  • AP Environmental Science
  • Mandarin Chinese IV Honors
    Senior Year (this is what I will be taking next year)
  • Pre-Calculus
  • AP American Government & Politics
  • AP Human Geography
  • Computer Science
  • English 12 Honors
  • Mandarin Chinese V Honors
  • AP European History

Extracurriculars In school (Been a member of all clubs since freshman year):

  • Speech and Debate Team. My events were Congressional Debate, World School Debate and Extemp. I was the
    Congressional Debate captain (2016-2017), and Vice President (2017-2018). I am ranked number one in the state for
    Congressional Debate. I have qualified and attended the Tournament of Champions and the National Tournament in
    Birmingham. I have major breaks at national tournaments like the Yale Invitational and the Princeton Classic.
  • International Concerns Club (it is linked to Amnesty International). I am fundraising director and treasurer of the club
    (2016-2018). I host bake sales every month and typically earn over $100. I also host round table discussions. Hosting a walk a mile in there shoes event to simulate a refugee camp.
  • Girl Up. Girl Up raises money for the United Nations for Girls all over the world. I am the Public Relations officer, but also
    act as fundraising director. I have held multiple fundraisers like a self defense fundraiser, international culture night on the
    nations Girl Up effects, and a drive at our school that collects pads, tampons, and other stuff for women at a local
    battered woman shelter.

Extracurriculars out of school:

  • Intern for local Democrats office and helping to campaign for the governors election in the fall.
  • Play piano ( 5 years)
  • Volunteer at a local elderly home and play piano there.
  • Volunteered at a orphanage
  • Volunteer annually at a 5k in memory of a friend of mine that was killed
  • Baby Sitter
  • Camp Counselor at a debate camp

Summer Activities

  • NSLI-Y (State Dept Scholarship that allowed me to go to China to study Mandarin last summer), also had a blog to
    document the program
  • AMP Global Youth (program in D.C. where you have policy seminar some days and have meetings with different NGOs and Institutes.)
  • JHU CTY

Dickinson offers a term-length D.C. program, would be a match for you, and might warrant research:

https://www2.dickinson.edu/departments/twc/

Trinity (CT) would be a match and offers strong political science and history programs.

Hamilton, likely a reach, provides an established semester-length D.C. option for its students, and would be excellent for pre-law, should that be a possible career interest for you:

https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/offcampusstudy/washington-program

Macalester would also be strong for your interests.

American should be considered alongside GW.