<p>Rising junior at a U.S. News top 20 LAC in the northeast, 3.67 GPA majoring in govt/poli sci, seriously considering grad school for a PhD in political science, with a focus in campaign practices and systems.</p>
<p>No GRE's yet (of course), but already have one research fellowship in public policy analysis and should be doing more specific research in my interest area up through the fall of my senior year.</p>
<p>Where do you experts expect I could go into a PhD program and have a teaching assistantship and be able to succeed with a minimum of debt?</p>
<p>I'm in a very similar situation...looking at grad school options for government/public policy/political science. I too am very interested in campaigns, but also in polling and lobbying.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for either a master's program or a combination master's/law program would be much appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, without a GRE score to go on, it's hard to say. However, your GPA shouldn't be too much of a limiting factor for most schools, so that's good. What's your subfield? How's your math ability? What are you interested in doing at the graduate level? Why do you want a PhD?</p>
<p>As far as the GREs are concerned, I'd start working on it if you aren't sure you can at least score 90th percentile and up in each category. My professors at UCLA said that anything below 90th percentile was a red flag at admissions time. Depending on the subfield, math and econ are increasingly more important these days.</p>