Where to study international relations

tk21769
Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:10:09 +0000

everything happens for a reason



Maybe the reason in your case is that you ignored warblers’ advice (post #4) and loaded up on extremely selective schools. Yours is not the first such outcome I’ve seen in the past couple days.

Does “everywhere” include UNC? That was your safety, right? But you don’t have in-state status and UNC is notoriously hard for OOS applicants.

I would have recommended a few schools like Macalester College or American University that have good IR programs, are less selective than the likes of Yale and Stanford, and offer merit scholarships. Maybe you could take a gap year and build a new strategy that includes a few of these schools. Or, enroll in a rolling admissions school, then transfer. Or …(long shot) … send your scores, grades, etc. to someone high up in the chain (Dean of Admissions) at one of these “match” schools. Ask if they’d at least be willing to put you on their waiting list for Fall 2011. I think you’d need to be able to show sincere enthusiasm if you try this.