“None of the top DC schools has a top rated political science department” (#9)
Rated by whom?
“[These schools] are considered [to have] the best political science departments in the country.” (#9)
Again, by whom? And on what level?
If undergraduate programs are not rated, then they are simply . . . not rated. And Georgetown and GW would be excellent for government/political science, as would a couple of other larger schools not mentioned at all above such as Notre Dame or Villanova. Purely undergraduate focused colleges such as Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Davidson, Hamilton, Swarthmore and Vassar would also be conspicuously disregarded in terms of their strength in government/political science by a method of evaluation that presumably relies on an analysis of graduate departments only.