<p>I also missed the fact that you were interested in economics. </p>
<p>I would recommend trying to find schools that are both accepted to be top in politics and top in economics and seeing if you like any of those (as having a school where your respective majors are considered to be some of the best departments will be advantageous to gaining internships and later employment).</p>
<p>To my knowledge, the top economics programs are, in no particular order:
University of Chicago
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Standford University
University of California - Berkeley
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Northwestern University
New York University
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Cornell University
Duke University
California Institute of Technology
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Rochester</p>