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  1. Thank you so much for your reply! Yes, I will definitely cut my list down later...I will be a RA for a IR professor this summer and will have a change to rethink about my interest of career and find out which school is really for me. However, i didn't really get your point about the multiple programs at the same university. Is it impossibe for me to apply to a professonal school and another PhD program at same university at meantime?
  2. I am a fall 2010. My target school for IR is Fletcher, Georgetown, SAIS, IGA(HKS), SIPA, Elliot, LSE and Oxford. However, I will also apply for the East Asian Studies program in UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, U Michigan, Harvard, Yale and Columbia. I know my list is extremely ambitious, but I will try my best...otherwise, I may just stay in Hong Kong for a few more years to take a JD here. About myself, I am an oversea student from mainland China, and currently taking my undergrad in Hong Kong with major in History and minor in Econ. My school is not as famous as those top US college, but still ranked within top five in Asia. My GPA is around 3.45/3.72 (cumulative/Major) and 4.0 (UC Berkeley summer school). Although my score is paltry, I am listed among the top three students in my apartment, and very likely can graduate with first honor. Besides my scholarship/awards records( full scholarship, dean's list, class scholarship...), I've also had various internship/working experience in past three years, including a three-month internship in Cairo, six-month in a small education services company as a assistant project director, and a two-month RA experience for a IR professor. I have a rich international travel experience with over 15 countries, including Syria, Lebanon, Israel, India and many countries in southern part of Africa. My native language is Chinese and have some basic knowledge in Arabic and Japanese. I am planning to take a further study in Arabic next semester since I am deeply interested in that region and would like to choice Sino-Middle East relations as my concentration in grad school. So the Arabic is a must for me:( However, one of my weak parts is the GRE score. I did not get a good score in my first GRE test, especially the verbal part (I got 800 in Q, but only 600 in V and 4.5 in AW). I will take my second test in Oct, and I am working on it now! Do you have some suggestions for me? or do you know any disadvantages when the grad schools are looking at those oversea students?
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