Schools: Georgetown SSP, Hopkins Security Studies, AU (Spring 15) Possibly Princeton WWS, Korbel, Chicago CIR, LBJ, GW
Career goals: Ideally foreign service or something with nat'l security
Institution: public state university in Florida
Major: Political Science
Minor: Double in history and international studies GPA: 3.65, overall from school. Overall (including study abroad, two econ courses) 3.71. Major GPA 3.85 GRE score:
Taking next month, but generally a strong test taker. Work experience:
Policy intern at a scientific research institute, researched federal and state policy for scientific research (including some bio security issues)
Economic development intern at City West Palm Beach
Economic affairs intern State Department, U.S Embassy Moscow Language skills:
Moderate Russian, Belarusian (Was born/lived in Belarus) Quantitative work: Statistics, macro, micro. A in both econ courses, B in stats
Publications:
Op-Ed about national security and Bahrain
Overseas experience (work, study and teaching):
Studied abroad in Saint Petersburg, Russia Statement of Purpose:
Feel pretty confident about my SOP.
Letters of Recommendation:
I have a really, really strong LOR from my supervisor at the research centre and another strong LOR from a former Ambassador and Georgetown alum who was my professor. Moderate LOR from another professor.
I'd really, really love to get into Hopkins or Georgetown. I know the SAIS and MFS programs are really difficult to get into, and I'm not even sure how the security studies programs are as far as competitiveness. But, I just graduated from my undergrad this week, so I figured I might as well see how I stack up. Thanks guys!