I have a good amount already, but wanted to see if I’'m missing out on any
STATS:
94.48 UW/96.44 W
1490 SAT (800 M, 690 CRW)
11 AP/17 that school offers (that I could’ve taken)
5/8 Honors classes (other 3 conflicted w/ AP class)
Middlebury, Hamilton and Claremont McKenna are among the schools that appear below and would (by stats) be within your range:
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/small-colleges/political-science-international-relations/
Denison and Dickinson would offer you some moderately selective options.
Amherst
American U
Bates
Bard
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
BYU
Carleton
Claremont Mckenna
Clark U
Holy Cross
Columbia
Connecticut College
Davidson
Dickinson
Drew
Franklin and Marshall
George Mason
Georgetown
George Washington
Gettysburg
Gonzaga
Grinnell
Harvard
Kenyon
Macalester
McGill
Princeton
Scripps
Stanford
Swarthmore
Syracuse
UC Berkeley
UCLA
U Washington
Vassar
Wake Forest
Yale
Source: Princeton Review
Wesleyan: http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/
@CrewDad, regarding Post #2, unless I am missing a portion of the 2018 guide, there is no such ranking by Princeton Review. As noted by Princeton Review, “Our 62 annual college rankings lists are entirely based on what students attending the schools in our Best Colleges book tell us about their colleges and their experiences at them via our student survey for this project. Each ranking list reports the top 20 colleges (of the 382 in the book) in a specific category.”.
The categories that are solely based on student feedback include;
Academics/Administration
Best Classroom Experience
Students Study the Most
Students Study the Least
Professors Get High Marks
Professors Get Low Marks
Most Accessible Professors
Least Accessible Professors
Best Science Lab Facilities
Most Popular Study Abroad Program
Best Health Services
Best Career Services
Best College Library
This Is a Library?
Great Financial Aid
Financial Aid Not So Great
Best-Run Colleges
Administrators Get Low Marks
Their Students Love These Colleges
Quality of Life
Happiest Students
Least Happy Students
Most Beautiful Campus
Least Beautiful Campus
Best Campus Food
Is It Food?
Best College Dorms
Is That a Dorm?
Best Quality of Life
Politics
Most Conservative Students
Most Liberal Students
Most Politically Active Students
Election? What Election?
Demographics
Lots of Race/Class Interaction
Little Race/Class Interaction
LGBTQ-Friendly
LGBTQ-Unfriendly
Most Religious Students
Least Religious Students
Town Life
College City Gets High Marks
College City Gets Low Marks
Town-Gown Relations Are Great
Town-Gown Relations Are Strained
Extracurriculars
Best Athletic Facilities
Students Pack the Stadiums
There’s a Game?
Everyone Plays Intramural Sports
Nobody Plays Intramural Sports
Best College Radio Station
Best College Newspaper
Best College Theater
Students Most Engaged in Community Service
Most Active Student Government
Social Scene
Lots of Greek Life
Lots of Beer
Got Milk?
Lots of Hard Liquor
Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch
Reefer Madness
Don’t Inhale
Schools by Type
Party Schools
Stone-Cold Sober Schools
Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution
Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians
Michigan, of course!
While not a ranking of best political science schools, here’s Princeton Review’s Top 50 - Colleges That Pay You Back - it may be a useful place to start…
From the best financial aid to the best internships, these schools pay you back in a big way. Find out which schools offer the best career placement and how to ensure your dream career post-graduation. Alumni salary and career information provided by PayScale.
These fifty schools received our highest ROI rating, ranked in order;
1 Princeton University
2 Stanford University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Harvey Mudd College
5 California Institute of Technology
6 Harvard College
7 Yale University
8 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
9 University of California--Berkeley
10 Amherst College
11 Duke University
12 University of Virginia
13 Rice University
14 Brown University
15 Dartmouth College
16 Vanderbilt University
17 Colgate University
18 Brigham Young University (UT)
19 Cornell University
20 University of Chicago
21 Hamilton College
22 University of California--Los Angeles
23 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
24 Columbia University
25 Williams College
26 Haverford College
27 Washington University in St. Louis
28 Carleton College
29 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
30 University of Pennsylvania
31 Tufts University
32 Claremont McKenna College
33 Bowdoin College
34 Swarthmore College
35 Carnegie Mellon University
36 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
37 Pomona College
38 Wabash College
39 Johns Hopkins University
40 Grinnell College
41 Reed College
42 Emory University
43 Lafayette College
44 Case Western Reserve University
45 University of California--Santa Barbara
46 Babson College
47 University of California--San Diego
48 University of Richmond
49 New College of Florida
50 Union College (NY)
It’s also good to disclose/consider more information such as state residency, which can affect alot of things. 
Agree, as there are many great public universities on the list I provided in Post #7 and am sure a bunch of them have great Government / Poli Sci programs including #23 Michigan as @rjkofnovi called out!
I live in NY, don’t plan on applying to SUNY
@getmeoutofherexd, based on handle it appears you want out of NY -any target regions of the country?
@Chembiodad Better yet, you can order the book. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Colleges-College-Admissions-Guides/dp/0451487737
I have a post over on What are my chances with my full list
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Emory University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Washington University-St Louis
Yale University
@CrewDad, don’t hit the Order Button on your Amazon Cart as there’s no such list in the book…
Here’s College Start Class’ rankings of best Poli Sci / Government programs - seems like a good list;
1 Harvard
2 Princeton
3 Yale University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Columbia University in the City of New York
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Duke University
8 University of Chicago
9 University of Pennsylvania
10 Dartmouth College
11 Amherst College
12 Williams College
13 Brown University
14 Vanderbilt University
15 Pomona College
16 Washington and Lee University
17 University of Notre Dame
18 Rice University
19 Georgetown University
20 Cornell University
21 Northwestern University
22 Haverford College
23 Washington University in St Louis
24 Claremont McKenna College
25 Swarthmore College
26 Tufts University
28 University of California-Berkeley
29 Johns Hopkins University
30 Middlebury College
32 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
33 Davidson College
34 Vassar
35 University of Virginia
36 Boston College
37 University of California-Los Angeles
38 Colby College
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
40 Emory University
41 College of William and Mary
42 Wellesley College
43 Carleton
44 Colgate University
45 University of Richmond
46 Bowdoin College
47 University of Southern California
48 Lafayette College
Note that StartClass (reply #15) doesn’t rank political science programs, but rather ranks the colleges themselves in accordance with their own methodology. The listed schools simply have political science programs.
Princeton Review
The Best 382 Colleges
2018 edition
“Great Schools for Political Science/Government Majors”
Page 19
@crewdad, similar to the StartClass list, just a sample of schools -not a ranking as ALL of the top LAC’s have strong Poli Sci / Government programs…