<p>How is the program at Penn? How competitive is it to be accepted to it?</p>
<p>The program is a marvelous and rigorous undergraduate program, certainly one of the most rigorous non-quantitative majors in SAS. Its alumni go on to the best grad schools and jobs in the private sector and government around the world. Because of Penn’s breadth in schools, it extends the IR education to areas that other schools either don’t offer to undergrads or don’t even have (such as international business and international law–both of which are integrated to the point where they have courses that automatically count towards the IR major curriculum. You can do lots of searches on Penn IR.</p>
<p>Getting accepted is certainly not as hard as, say, Woody Woo at Princeton, but they are deliberately trying to take less students, which has meant making it more stringent to scare off the wussies (who will do Poli Sci with an IR concentration 
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<p>[International</a> Relations at the University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080518230859SrenoD0.9261896.html]International”>http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080518230859SrenoD0.9261896.html)</p>
<p>In 2005, a 2.8 was required. What kind of requirements are there now?</p>
<p>Kind of off-topic, but as an alternative (I assume you’re not applying to one school) you could try Georgetown SFS.</p>
<p>I never really understood what kind of career IR is geared towards…in other words what specific knowledge do you gain from IR that would give you competitive advantage in certain fields?</p>
<p>To my knowledge you now need a 3.0 in all courses and a 3.1 in the prereq classes.</p>
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<p>could someone please answer this for me?
THANKS!</p>
<p>IR is broad and flexible and can be used for anything. IR majors go into business, law school/other grad school, NGOs, government… Its appeal is in its flexibility.</p>
<p>ilovebagels, i realize you love UPenn IR but I was wondering what other schools you looked at for IR because it seems like we have similar interests; i’m definitely more interested in interdisciplinary IR than say, political science. :)</p>