Hm, for OP if I was looking for a peer-type school that does EA (given preferences of in the northeast, for a politics/IR/comms type major) I’d probably go with Fordham rather than Tulane. (Or maybe both, Tulane doesn’t have an application fee). George Mason does EA and is probably a proper safety admissions-wise for OP and possibly again a better fit for preferences than some of the others mentioned.