<p>Some schools of focus:</p>
<p>Princeton
Yale
Wellesley
Vassar
Boston College</p>
<p>Any other colleges worth seeing for someone interested in political/science or international relations? We want to stay roughly between Boston and Princeton.</p>
<p>check out Tufts and maybe BU while you are in Boston?</p>
<p>Yes, I second checking out Tufts... they are VERY WELL KNOWN for
international relations... They have the Fletcher School
for international relations and diplomacy.</p>
<p>Right! Tufts is already on the list, I don't know why I forgot to put it in my original post. whoops!</p>
<p>barnard in nyc!</p>
<p>ok - any others?</p>
<p>The top three per graduate producers of future Poli Sci PhDs are all located in Philadelphia suburbs:</p>
<h1>1 - Swarthmore</h1>
<h1>2 - Haverford</h1>
<h1>3 - Princeton</h1>
<p>Plus Bryn Mawr at #12</p>
<p>So anchoring your visit on one end at the Phila airport would allow you to visit all of the Phila area schools -- two or three per day. For example, Swarthmore and Penn are only about 10 miles apart by either car or train stations on both campuses. Both are also very close to the airport -- 10 miles or less.</p>
<p>Wesleyan is also strong in poli sci and is directly on the route from Vassar to New Haven and Boston. Williams is also quite strong in Poli Sci, although a little bit further out of the way.</p>
<p>Lollipop, there are several colleges on the east coast with good political science departments. For IR, Tufts and Georgetown are two of the best known, but many have programs that although not specifically called international relations, offer wide global perspectives. </p>
<p>What else are you looking for in a college? What is your personal profile? How much time do you have?</p>
<p>As Weenie mentioned these are all highly selective colleges so if you're interested in the area geographically it would be a good idea to add in a few less-selectives.</p>
<p>How about George Washington? It may be too far south for this trip, but it's supposed to be strong in politics and slightly less competitive than the others.</p>
<p>Yes, I've looked at George Washington and Georgetown but It is kind of out of the way so that will be saved for another trip.</p>
<p>definitely check out the CT trifecta: Wesleyan, Conn College and Trinity. All awesome for poli sci and IR, and could easily see 2 on the same day.</p>
<p>Penn, Columbia, NYU, Tufts, Haverford, Swarthmore...</p>
<p>Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Williams</p>
<p>Columbia--NYC has the UN, and Columbia has two or three weeks every year in which world leaders come to speak (during the time when they are in town for the UN). Last semester the President of Poland was here--he's the only one that I remember, but the list is quite impressive (a great number of presidents) and pretty lengthy.</p>
<p>Um, just a suggestion, but are you looking at safeties? You should. Because you have to apply to them and you might wind up going to one, so you better be sure you like it.</p>
<p>Bowdoin...if you want to make a detour to Maine.</p>
<p>Brown is between Yale and Boston. Might as well do Harvard while you're in Boston.</p>
<p>"Um, just a suggestion, but are you looking at safeties?"</p>
<p>Yes, but my safeties are all in-state or closer to home (im oregonian)</p>
<p>Haverford, University of Delaware,</p>
<p>how about you start in dc then travel up the east coast to boston...youll be able to see almost everything cept for cornell that way.</p>