<p>I am currently a high school junior going to a MA public schoolHere are my stats if this helps
GPA W: 4.3
SATs: Math 680 Writing 710 CR: 710
Class rank 12/260</p>
<p>EC:
-Secretary General of Model United Nations
-President of Key Club
-Captain of Cross Country and Track
-Treasurer of the class of 2009
-Lead in Spring musicals and Fall Comedies
-Honor Roll every semester
-NHS
-8 outstanding delegate awards at model United Nations
-2 leadership awards from principal
-2 distinguished service awards
-Gold and silver awards (top 10 and top 20 in class).</p>
<p>I am looking for a school, big or small, for a potentiall International Studies, Government, HIstory, or political science major. I want a school where I may be able to get internships that will help pretty easily but am not afraid of a small school. I'm really open to the size.
Please help me find the right schools to apply to. Distance is not an issue</p>
<p>American U. School of International Service. Terrific on internships, all year round. </p>
<p>I’ve never met or heard of a Middlebury or Princeton student who had an internship during the school year. Maybe there are some, but awfully few.</p>
<p>All the DC schools are great for IR and DC is filled with internships. I am going to samefully plug Georgetown SFS. It is a really well-constructed program with incredible faculty with a long history of sucess in the field. GW and American also have fantastic programs that are slightly less selective. I would also look at John Hopkins and Tufts with NYU thrown in because it so close to the UN</p>
<p>“Well, he didn’t specify WHEN he wanted those internships.
Midd has exceptionally strong IS programs, and so does Woody Woo, of course.”</p>
<p>Still doesn’t matter. The number of SUMMER internships in IR held by Princeton or Middlebury undergraduates is a small fraction of those held by American students.</p>
<p>For where they ended up (based on their DC experience), just compare the number of Presidential Management Fellows:</p>
<p>For a LAC with heavy emphasis on research and internship opportunities, Claremont McKenna College is a good bet–they have 10 research institutes whose focuses range from state/local government to political economy to international & strategic studies; I personally know several freshmen who got paid research assistant jobs both fall and spring semester this year.</p>
<p>The school also funds internships over the summer, as most internships in IR or government tend to be unpaid. For example, the Kravis Leadership Institute funds 70 people for $3500 over the summer to intern at anywhere from UNESCO in Geneva to think tanks in DC. Similarly, the Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights offers 5 $3500 fellowships for research or internships in human rights/public service. They also sponsored a Human Rights in China symposium this year that featured famous activists who participated in the Tiananmen Square Demonstrations.</p>
<p>And if you want to intern during the school year, the Washington Semester Program, which allows you to spend a semester in DC, provides an excellent opportunity. Your tuition, room and board costs don’t change, and you get to intern in DC during the Fall/Spring semesters, which gives you a much better chance of landing internships in places like the State Department, as you’ll be able to avoid the flood of students who apply during the summer.</p>
<p>I think your best bet would be to try to apply to schools that are fairly strong in every category. You may change your mind about what you want to major in. A better way to narrow down schools is to think about what you want in the social scene.</p>
<p>“^^That’s a list of those who came from graduate programs, which is rather irrelevant when you are comparing Middlebury and American undergrad.”</p>
<p>Nope. The majority came from undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>Among undergrads, they also had more Truman Fellows than Harvard.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m missing something, but the Presidential Fellows site says the following:</p>
<p>“Graduate students from all academic disciplines who expect to complete an advanced degree from a qualifying college or university by August 31 of the academic year in which the competition is held, are eligible to become Fellows.”</p>
<p>I just don’t see how that’s relevant.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to knock American, I just don’t like the idea of the best aspect of the school not having anything to do with the school itself (in reference to the internships).</p>
<p>The University of Pennsylvania has a phenomenal IR undergrad program that places its students very well into government, academia, law, and business.</p>
<p>Penn also has the Huntsman program in International Studies & Business.</p>
<p>Both of these programs are worth taking a look and in your range of high selectivity.</p>