<p>I think your stats are fine (even the 690). Personally, if your passion is international relations, yet you’ve still managed to get a decent score in the sciences, you should be fine, even considered well-rounded in fact. </p>
<p>I went through an almost identical dilemma that you’re going through a year ago. I knew for sure I wanted to do Political Science, concentrating on an international or comparative approach to it (I want to be a diplomat). I applied to a bunch of schools I really liked, and figured once I get my acceptances I’d figure out which one had the best Poli Sci/IR program and I’d go from there. I ultimately had to make a choice between Princeton, Georgetown, and Yale. I chose Yale because despite the fact that SFS is awesome at Georgetown, I didn’t like the campus, and I felt the majors were too constrictive. There wasn’t much room to change interests within SFS. Princeton was a tougher decision, it had originally been my first choice school, but I decided against it because they didn’t offer me the opportunity to double major that Yale did. (Plus orange and black really look awful together). And the “princeton bubble” really wasn’t my thing. </p>
<p>In the end, Nanquanmikey described it perfectly. Plus the distributional requirements that you need to fulfill for Yale can pretty much all be found within the department you’re interested in.</p>
<p>For example I’m thinking of considering majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and the Quantitative Reasoning credit I have to get I can get by taking intro statistics class for political science majors. Bottom line: I’ll get a QR credit by taking a class aimed at poli sci, not math people, and it’s a class I have to take for my major anyways. And that’s just one example. </p>
<p>The science class you mention that you want to avoid, while yes, you do need two science credits at math, won’t necessarily mean you have to take a “real” science class. You could get that credit by taking an astronomy class, or an intro class, that might not necessarily be filled with science-y people, rather people who’s strengths might be in other areas, but still like stargazing every once in a while.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you!</p>