The first few months of my college experience were not particularly pleasant, as I was bedridden with a serious case of the flu for two weeks and took the brilliant step of not contacting professors, due to a mixture of nervousness and inability to take responsbility. The end was five Fs (I did pass a pass/fail seminar) This did, however, have the effect of beating some sense into me and in the two and half years since I I've retaken all the classes I failed and, save for one B+, gotten an A in them and all the otther classes I've taken, which gives me an official GPA of "3.81". Since the middle of my sophomore year, I've been interested in getting an MA in IR and my interest has intensified recently, which prompts me to ask the question: how bad of an effect will it have? Obviously the rosy number above won't be how I'm seen, as if one counts the Fs my GPA is around a 3.3, but just how bad an effect will it have? To add a small amount of context I'm an economics/political science/history major and a chinese/asian studies minor and I'll be spending next year studying the language in China. Haven't taken the GREs, but from the significant amount of practice I've done I'd estimate around Mid 90s Verbal/Mid 80s Quant. I have a couple of not very impressive internships (though I'm trying to get a better one for this summer) and not much of work experience.
This is a bit rambling and unfocused, so I guess my basic question is what "tier" of schools should I realistically be looking at if I forego getting work experience. The top is certainly out of reach barring something odd, but below that I'm quite unsure of how I would look.