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Thanks for replying! MIT I was looking at Fravel and UPenn Goldstein. I do agree that at UChicago and Harvard there is no one purely China Security focused on my area, but Harvard has so many scholars focused on IR in other areas and top China comparative scholars and UChicago does have Mearsheimer... Are there obvious programs I'm missing? I've really just begun my search.

Hi all, I am planning to apply in the next admissions cycle to a number of programs focused on security studies and modern China. I'm mainly just interested whether or not I'm competitive at these top programs that I'm applying for. I don't plan to attend if I am not accept to what would be considered a top-10 program in my field. If there is anything I should do over the next 10 months to make myself more competitive that would also be much appreciated. Admissions data BA: Political Science (w/honors) at a top-5 US university. Major GPA 3.8, General GPA 3.4. General and Departmental Honors. Also, not sure if this matters but one of the programs I'm applying for I also did my undergraduate work at. MA: Georgetown SFS, GPA 3.9, full fellowship GRE: 165V/159Q/5.5 Recs: Assume all stellar. One will be a the Professor who I worked as a research assistant for one of the top practitioners in the field. Another will be my undergraduate thesis advisor. Third unsure, likely a MA professor Language: Mandarin professionally fluent Softs: Spent the last 3 years living and working in China. Boren Scholar. Writing Sample: Debating between updating my undergrad (honors) thesis or writing something interesting over the next 10 months. This will likely depend on whether or not I'm actually a competitive candidate. Targeted programs (in order to some extent): MIT - PoliSci (probably security studies focus) Columbia - PoliSci Harvard - Gov UPenn - Princeton - WWS Security Studies Cornell - Georgetown - UCSD - UChicago - NYU - Thanks!!