<p>I go to a highly competitive prep school in Connecticut, and have a 3.15 gpa, with straight A's for my senior year so far. On the SAT's I got a 1400 out of 1600. Also I can get some pretty killer teacher recs. </p>
<p>I play lacrosse, wrestle, and have volunteered weekly for almost two years at an inner city school. I've also just started volunteering at the local ymca. I've won several awards for my writing on political theory from the attourney general of connecticut, and have attended two political science summer camps at yale, and then this summer took a Political Philosophy course at Yale. </p>
<p>Also, over the summer I volunteered on Joe Liebermans Campaign, and had a lot of fun, and got to learn a lot. </p>
<p>I'm really interested in political science, and want to go to school down south, Texas, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, or California, and in a City.</p>
<p>The best political science schools out of the Northeast are Stanford, Duke, and Georgetown - however, the former two are very hard to get in...I'd take a good look at Georgetown since its not too much a reach and in one of your target geographic areas.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate ranking in Political Science:
Yale
Harvard
Berkeley
Michigan
Chicago
MIT
Stanford
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Cornell
Princeton
UCLA
Northwestern
UNC Chapel Hill
Columbia
Indiana Bloomington
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Tufts
Ohio State
U Penn
UVA
Georgetown
Texas Austin
U Washington
U Pittsburgh
U Rochester
Rutgers
Brandeis
Vanderbilt
Illinois UC
Oregon
Maryland CP
Iowa
UC Santa Barbara
SUNY Buffalo
U Mass Amherst
NYU
Michigan St
Syracuse
Washington U St Louis
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Dartmouth
Pomona
Emory
UC Davis
Boston U
Tulane</p>
<p>Davidson
Washington & Lee
University of Richmond
Occidental
Pitzer (since you can take classes at McKenna)
Claremont McKenna
Rhodes
Sewanee
Furman
Centre
Goucher</p>