I agree entirely with the above posts, so I also will focus a little more on your specific schools. The answers to these questions don’t matter at all for us here on CC, but you may need to think these through a little more thoroughly:
- Do you know why I grouped these unis together?
- UChicago, Columbia
- NYU, BU, Columbia, UChicago, +/- NU
- Yale, Stanford, Brown
- Brown
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Are you more PoliSci or IR?
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Why aren’t JHU, Tufts or Georgetown on your list (if it’s b/c you think you can do “better” go ahead and own it)
ETA: in May 2021 you were on a WL for UCLA- what’s the deal?