<p>Me In A Nutshell- I wanna kind of keep it nice and simple for you guys just so i can look for a general direction. My intended major would be international relations and maybe a minor in economics. Does anyone know of some good schools where I can get into that have a strong department in these subjects? By the way, I'm no prestige w****, so yea I'm not looking to get into harvard or anything.</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
- Kinda "bad" GPA- 3.6 UW but my weighted is a 4.57 and I'm in the top 8 to 12 % in my class of 900 kids (we don't know exactly where yet)
- SAT- 2280</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
- By far my best part I'd say. I don't mean to have an attitude about this but I'd say im extremely good; i've got several important leadership positions, play a varsity sport, started a foundation, volunteering, worked abroad to promote causes of my foundation (Kenya and South Africa) and I have a very very unique background. I'm also half hispanic. I'm an international student though living in the US (I am not a permanent resident)</p>
<p>THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!</p>
<p>Schools with good IR programs</p>
<p>I dont know what geographic region you're looking into but here are some to give you somewhere to start:</p>
<p>Boston University - IR is one of their biggest majors, has a large and diverse population (lots of international students - over 121 countries represented), and great internship abroad programs</p>
<p>George Washington University - awesome DC location, definitly a city campus, large population, has its own undergraduate international relations school.</p>
<p>Georgetown - top notch school, DC location, pretty campus, oldest school of foreign service and IR in the country...</p>
<p>American - nice campus, located in DC right at the end of embassy row and next to the vice president's mansion, again has its own undergraduate international service school, IR is probably its biggest major</p>
<p>Seton Hall - a DEFINITE safety for you, in NJ, has a pretty good diplomacy and IR program and partnership with the UN</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins - its undergrad IR program is very very good, its graduate school of advanced international studies is the very best</p>
<p>I say you definitely look into Georgetown.... in the past week, Barack Obama, Madeline Albright, Justice Ruth Bater Ginsburg spoke and Iran's past president Khatami came and Hamid Karzai is coming on monday pretty cool I love it here</p>
<p>thanks so much! would i be able to get into georgetown and jhu's separate schools given my gpa?</p>
<p>for smaller schools: tufts, connecticut college, colgate, colby, wesleyan</p>
<p>Georgetown and Tufts are good matches. If you are willing to major in Political Science instead of IR, also check out Chicago and Michigan-Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>Boston College and Lafayette College.</p>
<p>Smartsnail113 is wrong. Tufts has America's oldest school of international relations: The Fletcher School. Tufts and Gtown are consistently vying for the number-one spot in terms of undergraduate (& graduate) IR programs. They're both reaches, but you can always try!</p>
<p>NYU is quite good in IR. It's an honors major.</p>
<p>According to the 2007 Gourman Report, the best undergraduate programs in International Relations are, in order:</p>
<p>Tufts
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
U Penn
Harvard
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
MIT
Stanford
UVA
Notre Dame
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Claremont McKenna</p>
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<p>(FYI: The Gourman Report states that its ratings are based on "extensive reseach" into the following criteria:</p>
<ol>
<li>auspices, control, and organization of the institution</li>
<li>numbers of educational programs offered and degrees conferred (with additional attention to "sub-fields" available to students within a particular discipline</li>
<li>age (experience level) of the institution and the individual discipline or program and division</li>
<li>faculty, including qualifications, experience, intellectual interests, attainments, and professional productivity (including research)</li>
<li>students, including quality of scholastic work and records of graduates both in graduate study and in practice</li>
<li>basis of and requirements for admission of students (overall and by individual discipline)</li>
<li>number of students enrolled (overall and for each discipline)</li>
<li>curriculum and curricular content of the program or discipline and division</li>
<li>standards and quality of instruction (including teaching loads)</li>
<li>quality of administration, including attitudes and policy towards teaching, research and scholarly production in each discipline, and administration research</li>
<li>quality and availability of non-departmental areas such as counseling and career placement services</li>
<li>quality of physical plant devoted to undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels</li>
<li>finances, including budgets, investments, expenditures and sources of income for both public and private institutions</li>
<li>library, including number of volumes, appropriateness of materials to individual disciplines and accessibility of materials</li>
<li>computer facility sufficient to support current research activities for both faculty and students</li>
<li>sufficient funding for research equipment and infrastructure</li>
<li>number of teaching and research assistantships</li>
<li>academic-athletic balance</li>
</ol>
<p>The weight given to each criterion above varies by discipline. )
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<p>crap, lolabelle, do you know what my chances are at tufts?</p>
<p>thanx so much guys! this is great!</p>
<p>whaleback -- PM me or post in the Tufts forum and I'll get back to you! The Tufts forum will give you several opinions as several current students & alums are regulars.... Ttys!</p>