<p>I realize that none of these are exactly poli sci oriented schools, but if I had to choose one based on its program in that major, which would it be?</p>
<p>-New York University
-Emory University
-Northwestern University</p>
<p>NYU i guess</p>
<p>Oh, and please explain your choice.</p>
<p>Northwestern is the best overall school of the bunch. I’d go with that</p>
<p>I’d go with Northwestern. NYU wouldn’t be a bad alternative, however. I can’t comment about Emory. It’s not really in my radar.</p>
<p>A tiny tidbit of information: I don’t know what area of poli sci you are interested in but I attened a week-long conference sponsored by Emory’s Middle Eastern Studies program and it was excellent.</p>
<p>NYU because you are closer to the action. (DC is within reach), and United Nations, interning at CNN, NBC, etc, and NYC itself is rife with politics.</p>
<p>They all have excellent Political Science departments. I like NU best, but they are sufficiently different and sufficiently excellent to warrant separate college visits before making a final decision.</p>
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<p>Ahem. Actually CNN is headquartered in Atlanta, along with Emory…</p>
<p>ilovebagels, haha, I forgot about that, but still, you get the gist of it 
NYC is just such a lively city, where even in the economic turmoil, all eyes, political are nto, are still geared towards it, watching the wall street crisis, etc.</p>
<p>and as a a sidenote, I just read an article saying the ocean will eventually rise to engulf NYC, so enjoy this metropolis while you can! lol</p>
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<p>On a more pressing note (sorry, Al Gore), I think a bigger concern for NYC is that it will be unable to maintain the high standards of governance and public services (particularly that of its police force) now that its tax base (financial firms and the sales taxes from their employees’ lavish lifestyles) has taken a severe hit.</p>
<p>There was an article on this in Columbia’s student paper fairly recently.</p>
<p>Let’s just say that NYPD is getting budget cuts, and NYC crime rates are going to start looking more like those of Philadelphia (aka Killadelphia)</p>