Good, prestigious east coast schools?

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<p>What are some good, prestigious east coast schools? Especially for political science/foreign affairs. Obviously there are the Ivies, NYU, BC, Northeastern, American U, MIT, and BU. These are all my top schools. And I don’t really want to go to Georgetown for undergrad. Any others I should be aware of? </p>

<p>Also what does it take to get into these schools? I understand that they would rather prefer for you to be very involved in one thing for years rather than many little things and not hold a leadership position. I’m a junior and do not have many ECs because I had to take care of my little brother everyday for 7 hours after school my first two years during high school so I was not involved at all since my parents worked odd shifts (but I jumped at all the chances for in-school opportunities such as being an office aide and first chair of my section in orchestra). This year now that I can drive, I am more involved and hold leadership positions in what I am involved in as well as volunteer and will hopefully be accepted to a student ambassador program to Europe for the summer, but I’m afraid that I will look like I’m just trying to beef up for college. Is there anything I can do about it? Would they still want me? I have a 4.8 gpa, 4.0 unweighted, all ap/honors classes, fluent in a second language, and would be a first generation college student (parents were immigrants).</p>

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<p>Taking care of your brother is a valid EC. You should have your counselor explain this in the school report.</p>

<p>There are different level schools on your list. Ivies and MIT are much harder to get into than BU, Northeastern ad American. BC is in between. Go to the College Board website and look at average stats for each school.</p>

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<p>uh for foreign affairs why would you not apply to georgetown school of foreign service? look into gwu school of international affairs if you’re considering american.</p>

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<p>yeah what’s wrong with georgetown for undergrad? it’s very Ivy-esque</p>

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<p>Haha, I just don’t want to go there for undergrad for some odd reason! I’m definitely going to try for grad school, but I just don’t really want to go to D.C. for undergrad. I’d much rather prefer New York/New England. And even though American U is in D.C. it’s at the bottom of the list of the other schools and I don’t have enough SAT subject tests for Georgetown and I wouldn’t know what to take for the third one in so it may hurt me. Plus all that extra time and money for one subject test for one school that I probably wouldn’t get into anyways. So it’s a combination of that, and location.</p>

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<p>Being first generation should help your cause. Take a look at Tufts and Gettysburg.</p>

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<p>Bowdoin. Great prelaw.</p>

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<p>William & Mary and Davidson would fit what you are looking for.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins is a fairly prestigious east coast school located in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s graduate program [Johns</a> Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) | Home](<a href=“http://www.SAIS-jhu.edu%5DJohns”>http://www.SAIS-jhu.edu) in Washington D.C. is among the leading international relations and foreign affairs schools in the nation. Many students here that I know of are very academically driven and a huge proportion of them plan on going to graduate school. The figure is very high, I believe it is around 60-70% end up receiving masters-doc terminal degrees or something like that I am not sure.</p>

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<p>Tufts and Holy Cross.</p>

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<p>you could check out some LACs…they don’t have the name recognition as the Ivies do…but they are just as good in terms of educational quality</p>

<p>Bowdoin, Middlebury, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore are all good choices for government types of programs</p>

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<p>Think about Columbia, but if you don’t feel that you can get into G-Town then forget about it. I also agree that you should look into Tufts. In addition, check out Occidental’s (although it’s in LA) Diplomacy and World Affairs major, they have an internship at the U.N.</p>

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<p>Harvard, Brandeis, Boston College, Holy Cross, Tufts, Georgetown, Columbia, NYU, American, GWU</p>

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<p>In addition to all of the above, Fordham University (either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill-Bronx main campus). Awesome school, really tight student body, Div IA athletics, amazing internships, outstanding alumnae contacts and references, lots of FAMOUS celebrity alumnae, amazing feeder school for graduate study at all the schools you mention above, really a white hot school (24,000 applications this year!) , it doesnt have that “attitude” problem you see at many schools…really bright kids, but really nice. And amazing faculty (70% of whom have Ivy credentials). </p>

<p>Rose Hill is stunning. Gorgeous. 90 Acres of green lush lawns and beautiful trees with gothic architecture, next to the New York Botanical Gardens and the Bronx Zoo. The Metro North Train stops literally at its gates and takes 10 minutes to Grand Central Station for 4.00. Plus the RamVan runs almost 24.7 back and forth to Lincoln Center and to JFK and LaGuardia.</p>

<p>They film movies at Rose Hill (one in production now with Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon). Many famous movies filmed at Fordham including Love Story, Exorcist and A Beautiful Mind.</p>

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<p>Adding yet another vote for Tufts.</p>

<p>I’m am MIT alum, and the poli sci people I know there liked it a lot, and it’s a great program for international politics, but keep in mind that you have to be able to make it through the math/science/engineering core. Nobody gets exempted from that, no matter what their major is.</p>

<p>I sympathize with spending long hours taking care of a little brother. :slight_smile: You’ve spent even more time doing so than I did.</p>

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<p>How about GW???</p>

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<p>No Ivy has a BAD PSCI/IR program.
Although technically some schools don’t have Int’l Relations or Int’l Studies majors…</p>