Major: Economics or Public Policy. Please help me?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Things I'm looking for in a college: affordable tuition, urban setting, not in the South and has a strong social sciences department. I'm at a dead end here because I got cocky after receiving a decent SAT score and great APs, so my previous list of schools is filled with unrealistic reaches. I'm an incoming Senior so my time to search is rapidly running out.</p>

<p>College List:
UCLA
University of Chicago
Georgetown
GWU
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
McGill
UBC </p>

<p>My stats are:
State: Idaho
Race: Latino
GPA: 3.4 weighted, 3.9 weighted without freshman year. My class rank is in the top 25%, would be in the top 5% without my freshman year.
APs: US History (4), LangComp (4), and Gov (5). I self-studied World (5) and APES (5).
SATs: R - 740, M - 630, W - 680. 2060 overall.</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
-volunteer at Food Bank starting this summer
-did Speech/Debate freshman year
-did Cross Country and Track freshman year
-I'm very politically active, I volunteered for the Idaho Democratic Party in the 2010 midterms and OFA/the Idaho Democrats this year.</p>

<p>I'd be grateful for any help at this point, even if it's just a namedrop of colleges. I can go from there.</p>

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<p>Check out SPEA at Indiana University.</p>

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<p>Many thanks, I had no idea that IU was so prestigious in that field.</p>

<p>Oh there’s about a 90% chance I’ll major in Economics and a 10% of Public Policy.</p>

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<p>bump, like I said even a few name drops would be good.</p>

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<p>University of Denver has a very strong public policy program and they are quite generous with both merit money and financial aide.
Also, if you want to go farther away…any of the schools in the metro DC area.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help! </p>

<p>Are there any particular schools in that are in the DC area that I should be looking at?</p>

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<p>Best schools in DC area are Georgetown and Johns Hopkins (especially for IR)</p>