<p>I need to find a safety-ish type school that offers International Relations as a major and is located in the northeast. Bare-bones stats are ~3.6 UW GPA, 2200 SAT, taken APs honors and all the hard stuff. I'm looking for a medium to large type school that is pretty decent in the IR field. Can anyone give me any suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>George Mason</p>
<p>Connecticut College; Penn State has an International Politics major</p>
<p>if you consider tufts a large enough school that might be a good match, as might be dickison college.</p>
<p>If you like the size of, say, Johns Hopkins, also check out URochester.</p>
<p>Look into American University, GWU.</p>
<p>BC, BU, Colgate, Tufts, URochester, Hamilton, Bucknell, Union, Hobart.</p>
<p>Tufts is not a safety; are you serious. Its IR program is top in the country and it accepted 25% of its applicants last year.</p>
<p>Tufts is not a safety? Since when has it not been a safety school? Maybe I am missing something here...I concede that it does have a IR program that is recognized. I don't know about it being the tops, however. These days, an acceptance of 25% is not too difficult to overcome.</p>
<p>This is pretty decent safety school for you Bucknell, Colgate, GWU, U Rochester.</p>
<p>Northeastern...</p>
<p>Porsche -
Tufts is only a safety if you consider Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Georgetown safeties as well. They all have nearly identical stats for accepted students and their acceptance rates are similar (higher at Johns Hopkins and Northwestern; lower at Georgetown).</p>
<p>Colgate is not a safety, either- it's a match, or maybe even a low reach. BU, BC Urochester, Bucknell, Union, America, and SUNY Binghamton (whether youre in NY or not) are all schools you should consider applying to, read about them and choose one as a safety</p>
<p>One of my D's friends who had the same stats as the OP did not get in to any of the schools she applied to except our state school. This is the type of situation a "safety" school is for. A safety school should be one that you have a > 90% chance of being accepted to, so that if all your other schools don't work out you at least know you're going to an acceptable college next year. With that definition, only about 3 of the schools mentioned so far are true safeties.</p>
<p>Porsche- how can you call an acceptance rate of 25% a safety? I guess you think UChicago is a safety, too.</p>
<p>How can you say "These days, an acceptance rate of 25% is not too difficult to overcome."? If anything, these days a 25% acceptance rate is harder to overcome because more high quality applicants are applying. I was thinking that maybe what you meant was these days a 25% acceptance doesn't stand out as being highly selective because, unlike 15 years ago when only ~ 10 schools had an acceptance below 25%, now probably about ~ 25 schools have an acceptance rate below 25%, with many of the top schools in the single digit to low double digit range; when previously even these schools were in the high teen to low 20% range.</p>
<p>While you are busy arguing about what makes a safety, go back and read the OP's stats. A 3.6 UW GPA does not make a safety candidate for Tufts or Georgetown. A safety school differs from student to student. One kid's safety is another's dream school.</p>
<p>It depends what and if that GPA translates into a rank. At my hs, that would have been ~ 5/300, which should just about get into Tufts every time, especially with what appears to be a M+V SAT of ~ 1430. However, the way grade inflation has gone that probably isn't necessarily the case anymore.</p>
<p>I graduated from Harvard in the mid 90s and my comment was based on perceived safeties back then. People applying to the likes of Harvard generally have strong applications and would be accepted to most, if not all, lesser schools. In the Boston area, Tufts, along with BU, was the most popular safety. At least this was the case when I was applying to schools. Of course one kid's safety is another's reach school but I was basing this on the OP's stats.</p>
<p>It definitely is not the case anymore....my son with better stats was waitlisted at BU last year. In the 90s there were fewer applicants in the pool. Based on the OPs stats, I would definitely not consider Boston and Tufts safeties.</p>