Pls help with a college list! Decent ACT [33], low GPA [3.3] [MA resident, international relations]

An international-level athlete could probably get admitted to the Ivy League, Stanford, Duke etc with those statistics. Too bad no sports, since you asked for the best that money can buy, and the student could have gone to one of “the best”.

What about American University? DC would seem to be a prime location for this student’s interests.