<p>what about Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School? (or as my sister calls it, WoodyWo lol)</p>
<p>I noticed that calidan lol</p>
<p>Yeah... I'm kinda embarassed since I'm usually a stickler for those things. :p</p>
<p>And starreyeyedgirl- I didn't include Princeton because they don't have a specific school for international relations- WoodyWoo is only a department. </p>
<p>I'm also not sure if they call it "IR," I think they have a different name for it.</p>
<p>yeah it's like (stops to google) "The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs" lol</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the quality of Yale's IR major, calidan?</p>
<p>I really don't, sorry. But I'm sure anything at Yale is wonderful. :)</p>
<p>Seconding neuroscience. Incredible work going on.</p>
<p>I loved the English dept and Brown is strong in Creative Writing as well. </p>
<p>Once the school is big enough, there can be depth in lots of depts. I am not aware of any that are considered relatively weak, though it's been awhile. I know President Simmons is really beefing up the # of faculty and this will help many depts.</p>
<p>To the OP:</p>
<p>Don't major in philosophy. Don't even consider it unless you want to be poor and out of work.</p>
<p>Um, there's a poster on this board who can give you an opposite view, but I forget who it is... I'll try to look it up...</p>
<p>If you manage to learn how to think, learn & write, your future life success should be "major-proof." A rigorous philosophy program would prepare you very well in that regard.</p>
<p>Philosophy is great for law school, though lol</p>
<p>Philosophy is great for learning different ways of thinking in hopes of finally thinking for yourself.</p>
<p>That can be done without doing a 4 year concentration of the thing, though.</p>
<p>I might double major (or concentrate, I guess) in Philosophy and French. How Bohemian is that?! j/k</p>
<p>But seriously... philosophy for law school (which I'm still not sure if I want to do or not) and French because I really like it. :)</p>
<p>I am considering law, too.</p>
<p>Cool... I know it's early, but do you have any law school in mind yet?</p>
<p>amor, absolutely. </p>
<p>I just wanted to point out that you shouldn't be afraid of concentrating in any academic discipline that you genuinely love because those core abilities can be learned studying a wide variety of topics.</p>
<p>No, not really, calidan. And you?</p>
<p>Right, but a degree in philosophy isn't going to help you out unless you plan to go to law or possibly business school; you have to be incredibly gifted if you want to go into academia with a philosophy degree.</p>
<p>Well, assuming all goes well in college, then I would like to go to Stanford, Columbia or Harvard law. It's reaching, I know, but (1) after spending 4 years on the east coast, I may want to return to the west, and (2) if I do like the east coast enough, I kind of want to try a big city like NYC or Boston... maybe Georgetown, too, because I do really like DC.</p>
<p>Harvard is probably the Holy Grail of law schools for me (as it is for everyone).</p>