<p>I have a list of colleges that were recommended to me as good International schools. I want to start researching them and slim my list from twenty to ten good schools for me.</p>
<p>How do I make good judgments about the vigor and the quality of a school's International Affairs education?</p>
<p>Thus far, I've found and searched and asked around, and came up with these schools as good schools to apply to for International Relations:
1. Georgetown University
2. American University
3. George Washington University
4. John Hopkins University
5. Tufts University
6. Boston University
7. Occidental College
8. College of William and Mary
9. University of Chicago
10. UC Berkeley
11. University of Michigan
12. Swarthmore College
13. UC San Diego
14. Williams College
15. Middlebury College
16. Macalester College
17. James Madison University
18. Syracuse University
19. Vassar College</p>
<p>With your current SAT scores I'd say that Georgetown, Hopkins, Tufts, W&M (OOS), Chicago, Michigan (OOS), Swarthmore, Williams, and Middlebury are well out of reach. In order to narrow your choices you really need to specify what type of college experience your looking for, i.e. city vs rural, big university vs small liberal arts college, geographic location... Your list definitely is very well put together for IR programs, though for a lot of schools a good IR program is really all they have in common. If you could be more specific on what ur looking for it would be easier to narrow down some choices, and also you should take the SAT's again and maybe try the ACT's. Best of Luck</p>
<p>Well I'm looking for a small liberal arts college. I'm definitely looking for something around D.C. or NYC, although anywhere in the Atlantic states is fine with me.</p>
<p>Being Californian-born, however, I'm also inclined to the UCs.</p>
<p>And those SAT scores were my first go in November of 2006. I've yet to take them again yet (stupid, stupid me...). </p>
<p>small northeast liberal arts with strong international studies programs and sat ranges around 1800......</p>
<p>i'd check out bowdoin (sat optional), gw (not lib arts, but strong in internat'l studies and not so selective), franklin & marshall, dickinson, and gettysburg.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins international studies is an excellent program. I'm a junior at Hopkins and though its not my major some of my research overlapped with that department and so I got to know a couple of the faculty there and it's really just excellent. If you have specific questions feel free to PM me and I'd be happy to try and answer them or I could introduce you to some IS majors who would be able to help even more if you'd like. Keep in mind that IS or IR programs have very different subspecialities. Though Hopkins, Stanford, Gtown etc come up all the time in the field, each has its nitch, so its something to think about. Most of all, pick somewhere you feel comfortable and can see yourself spending the next 4 years. if the environment supports your academic endeavors by making you comfortable, you'll be best off.</p>
<p>Vassar's also a reach with those scores & GPA - their average UW GPA is 3.8. American may be a good match; check out Catholic University in DC, too. Also, if you're looking at Virginia state schools, University of Mary Washington is highly regarded. You may want to look at George Mason and James Madison, too.</p>