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You may want to check out University Apartments. I have a friend there now in a 1 BR who really likes it. $850/month including utilities. Not sure about the pet policy, and my sample size is one on that, but he likes it and finds it worth the money. I would avoid Royal Park and Carolina Apartments but Chambers Ridge, directly across from them, is pretty nice. It's not a GSC complex. No break-ins, no crime. I've left my car unlocked a few times and returned to my stereo still there. Most, if not all of the floor plans, are 2 BR but the 2 BR layout is pretty private. Takes about 10-15 minutes to get to and from campus on one of the bus lines, about 15 minutes by bike. University Apartments will be far more walkable, but my rent and utilities usually come to about $500 a month. I get around primarily by bus and bike and find it very easy. My morning commute from Carrboro to Franklin Street is always 15-20 minutes. The buses are great, definitely, but the service drops quite a bit on the weekends. Keep that in mind if you don't have a car or bike as a secondary mode of transportation.

Thanks for all the responses. Bdeniso, I was mainly referring to Rochester's methods-intensive approach that reduces the amount of IR classes you come into contact with, which concerned me. It's a little too narrowly focused for me. McMuffin, I'm still narrowing down my research interests but they primarily relate to foreign internal defense and assistance relationships that stop short of military intervention. I think peacekeeping and full military interventions have been studied more thoroughly than the softer deployment of advisers. I'd like to understand what drives those decisions, and I think that question can be approached from multiple angles. I'd like to do quantitative research or do qualitative research on civil-military relations, hence the kind of split nature of my current list. Does that answer what you were asking? Are there any that I should drop due to a lack of fit or a near-zero shot at acceptance?

Hey folks, I'm rounding out my list and polishing off applications, and I wanted some non-professorial feedback on where I'm applying. I've focused on fit so far, and I'm being pretty aggressive as far as where I'm looking. I'm looking to go into conflict processes, especially researching irregular warfare, but am also interested in security studies, so my list has a couple security studies programs. 3.75/3.75 overall/major. I completed a joint bachelor's with a top 25 global university and a top 5 public research university in the States, majoring in political science with honors from both schools. I have a couple of highly competitive/unusual internships on my resume, collected data for and wrote a quanty honor's thesis (not related to IR), and worked almost full-time during most of my four years. I graduated in May and am working full-time. GRE: 169V, 160Q, 5.5 AW. LORs: should be very solid, if not spectacular. Two are from rising stars in CP and the third is from my thesis director, a well-regarded quant researcher on American politics. The list right now is: Columbia Emory Iowa Michigan MIT Princeton UCSD Vanderbilt Yale Any recommendations or opinions on how aggressive/conservative that list is? Any other programs I should be considering? I've heard PSU, OSU, Maryland, Rochester (probably too quanty), and FSU. It's not PhD or bust for me but any other good fit schools would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.