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with the recession how much harder will it be to get accepted to a top 10 IR/pp/mpa school? I heard with the flood of applicants there is a huge increase in the application pool. most of these people have work experience already so is going straight out of under grad going to be ridiculously tough for me this upcoming application process? or will it be the opposite and the application pool will decrease because the people with jobs want to keep it and not risk quiting their job to go to grad school.

cumulative gpa: 3.7 major gpa: 3.7 (not an IR major or poli sci major) gre:700 q 570 v 6 months as an campaign activist 7 months as a TA for a japanese school -fluent in japanese summer internship with a police agency - human trafficking division Im working on my SOP but should be well written. edited by several profs. LOR should be good i have a 1 semester of research experience + my senior thesis president of a honor society lots of community service hours for habitat for humanity traveled over seas numerous times im looking to get into a security studies program. sipa, gw, tufts, gtown ssp, america, sais. im also interested in the academic aspects of yale and Mit's programs do i have a chance any these schools?