Which schools of International Studies can I qualify For?

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I have just started my junior year in a Californian high school. My current grade is very competitive, and the program I am in itself is very rigorous/competitive. Although I finished by freshman year with about a 3.85 (4.0 weighted)unweighted GPA, I completely dropped that in sophomore year with an average unweighted 3.01 GPA (3.7 weighted). I had two C’s in English and AP physics C sophomore year and it was very tough (I was also somewhat lazy).

Freshman year APs: World History (3)
Sophomore year APS: Ap physics c e&M (2) AP physics c mechanics (3) AP calc ab (4) ap environmental science (4)
EC’s : CyberPatriot (computer competition) 3 years, Model United Nations (2 years), Elementary school science volunteer (3 years). Volunteer piano at church since 7th grade now; not planning on stopping until senior year. (church was small, poor, in need of a pianist)

Although many of my activities are science/math based, I want to major in International Studies. Over the summer, I attended NSLC (not the best i could do it was pay-based program and overall just very overpriced) at American University for the National security and intelligence program. It’s my junior year, and I know I have to perform better to show the upward trend in my gpa. I have just started school, but im planning to take sat in october and sat 2 korean and sat 2 math this semester as well. I am also conflicted about more ecs. I am contemplating over basketball (jv), an la police department volunteer/internship, and I would like some advice on which ones i should take or any other ones that would help me in my application. Im also enrolled in 5 ap classes now (ap us hist, ap calc bc, ap chemistry, ap english lang, and ap comp sci). So assuming that i get an average 3.85 gpa this semester, get 3s , 4 s, and 5s on my aps, and a 1500 + on my sat, and perfects on my sat 2s, which international studies colleges am i qualified for? I’m slightly interested in american and georgetown university, but I am open to other options that can get me working in government agencies (nsa, cia, nia, fbi)

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UC San Diego is very good for international relations. Somebody at your high school should be able to tell you what you need to do to be competitive for them.

University of Denver and Seton Hall are two places with undergraduate international relations schools that are not that extremely competitive for admissions and might be good.

George Washington and American are also very good for IR, of course, though they are pretty selective (and it seems American is becoming more so). And Georgetown is hard enough to get into even with a stellar record all through HS.

I’d say you’ll need to actually see your junior year results before knowing what levels of schools are worth pursuing.

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What should I do about extracurriculars? Should I join basketball? or like a science olympiad? or maybe an la police department volunteer thing?