<p>Hi, I am a transfer student from a Community College in California. I am majoring in Political Science and I was accepted to
UCBerkeley
UCLA
UCSD
George Washington University
Columbia School of General Studies
NYU
Arcadia University
Boston University.
I truly value education and prestige and I want to attend Grad Shool.
Where should I go and why?
Thank you!</p>
<p>For Poly Sci? George Washington.</p>
<p>Choose:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, or Columbia. All three boast strong polisci programs.</p>
<p>definitely pick Columbia University!</p>
<p>Berkeley or Columbia. No doubt. Between the two, it comes down to which environment you like better.</p>
<p>Look in-state in order to save money for Grad school.</p>
<p>^^Good thinking right here. I’d probably choose Berkeley over LA.</p>
<p>actually I see UC-Berkeley and UCLA as a tie, you can’t go wrong with either choice</p>
<p>Any of these schools will be a good choice. What are you looking for? Do you want to be in a city (apparently, since the majority of these schools are in or near a big city). Do you want a school with a campus? NYU and George Washington both don’t have much of a campus to speak of, and I’ve heard similar about BU. Will you have to shell out a lot more money to go to some of these schools than others? What can you afford? What kind of environment are you looking for?</p>
<p>It’s hard to answer this question with just your major, since that’s actually one of the less important criteria in picking an undergraduate school. Most solid undergraduate schools have solid political science programs.</p>
<p>Columbia! hands down.</p>
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UCSD has a political science program as strong as Columbia and UCLA’s, if not stronger.</p>
<p>really? somehow I doubt that, I’ve never heard of UCSD being especially strong in anything other than the hard sciences: biological sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental sciences etc…</p>
<p>pierre- As a high school student, there are undoubtedly a good many things you don’t know. </p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Political Science - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-political-science-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-political-science-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Political Science](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area39.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area39.html)</p>
<p>haha fair enough IBclass06, but then again those rankings are for graduate school and I’ve heard from many UCSD students that if you aren’t in the sciences, you feel that there aren’t as many resources available to you such as grad school info sessions, extracurricular opportunities etc…it may be very true that UCSD has an excellent political science program but it appears to be drowned out by the science department.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley for now, then Columbia for postgrad. that would look like a very strong combination.</p>