Liberal Arts College for IR?

akskrjdf321
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:36:57 +0000

Hello, I am a current junior in high school starting college search. Like many others, I hope to go to prestigious school without any financial obstacle. To clear things up, I want to point out the fact that I am an international student and I am aware of the fact that it is really hard to rake in scholarships and financial aid. I’ve come to all senses and realized applying only for big, chunky universities is not a very good strategy for me especially because although I do get accepted, I won’t be able to attend if the tuition is more than $17,000 due to family financial circumstance. I’ve noticed Liberal Arts Colleges are less known than many big research-based universities, but I was surprised at the fact that many LACs cover most or even all of the tuition of any admitted students. LACs were also appealing in the sense of relatively low faculty and student ration due to its small class size. I felt LACs will offer more life engaging experiences than other universities and LACs financial aid looked really attractive to me especially because I really need it. My top choice of school is still Georgetown because I want to pursue in International Relations and its reputation and location seemed flawless. However, Georgetown offers a very limited number of scholarships (not financial aid) to small number of international students and of course it is not guaranteed that I will be one of them. Do you think even if I do get a scholarships, the tuition will go down as low as $17,000 or do you think it’s better off for me to give up on Georgetown and focus on LACs where I have more decent chance of getting financial aid? can you suggest any LACs that are reputed especially in the field of International Relations? I heard Middlebury has really decent IR program and even for its grad school but I wasn’t completely sure about that.