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I received an email for an interview, IR. 

I received an email for an interview, IR. 

I received an email for an interview, IR. 

I received an email for an interview, IR. 

Ah it’s okay, I’m sure many more are on their way. I only need to get into 1 after all haha. I was also shocked that it came so early. 

I have been a long time reader of the site and was wondering if anyone could give me a rough idea of where I should likely try to target my applications and what I can do over the rest of my junior year to increase my chances of getting into a better program. I posted once before but I figure since more people are on now it may be worthwhile to get s0ome more opinions from people who just went through the process
Type of undergrad institution: Public T40 in Political Science 
Major/Minor: Political Science / Economics and Statistics 
Overall GPA: 3.76 Major: 4.0 Statistics 3.75 Economics 3.4 (ouch I know)
Special Courses: One graduate level game theory course, one graduate level IPE course, analysis of economic data, econometrics, research methods in poli sci, multiple 4000 level stats courses 
GRE: I have been prepping for around 6 months and think a combined 325-330 is likely with mostly the same quant and verbal 
LOR: Two from professors, one Tenured I have done research with for one semester, 1 full in the school of business who I am co-authoring with and had a yearlong RAship turn into a DIS, the other is an economist by PhD but in the Poli Sci dept. and then a professor who knows me very well from the Community College I went to while I was dual enrolled in HS, also TT. 
Research: Full academic year of research on business sustainability, two DIS, another semester working with the political economy and game theory 
Teaching: None
Subfield/Interests: Mostly interested in IPE and Development 
Other: One poster presentation about the sustainability project, one co-authored paper with professor from business school and a presentation forthcoming in the fall and then a standard B.S. senior thesis. 
 
I really appreciate anyone who took the time to read this! I have been stressing like crazy over what to do where I can likely get in so anyone giving me a general range of colleges would be appreciated. 

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on a couple of acceptances I would kill for, especially given the current state of admissions. I also wanted to say that I appreciate your response. I’m scared my economics class GPA may mar my chances a little bit, I noticed you were in political economy so I wonder if you could speak at all to that. Second thing I would like to ask is as follows: given your recent cycle success, do you have a rough recommendation for the range of schools I should apply for? I was thinking it looked like the 15-25 range but I’d appreciate anything! 

I have been a long time reader of the site and was wondering if anyone could give me a rough idea of where I should likely try to target my applications and what I can do over the rest of my junior year to increase my chances of getting into a better program. I posted once before but I figure since more people are on now it may be worthwhile to get s0ome more opinions from people who just went through the process
Type of undergrad institution: Public T40 in Political Science 
Major/Minor: Political Science / Economics and Statistics 
Overall GPA: 3.76 Major: 4.0 Statistics 3.75 Economics 3.4 (ouch I know)
Special Courses: One graduate level game theory course, one graduate level IPE course, analysis of economic data, econometrics, research methods in poli sci, multiple 4000 level stats courses 
GRE: I have been prepping for around 6 months and think a combined 325-330 is likely with mostly the same quant and verbal 
LOR: Two from professors, one Tenured I have done research with for one semester, 1 full in the school of business who I am co-authoring with and had a yearlong RAship turn into a DIS, the other is an economist by PhD but in the Poli Sci dept. and then a professor who knows me very well from the Community College I went to while I was dual enrolled in HS, also TT. 
Research: Full academic year of research on business sustainability, two DIS, another semester working with the political economy and game theory 
Teaching: None
Subfield/Interests: Mostly interested in IPE and Development 
Other: One poster presentation about the sustainability project, one co-authored paper with professor from business school and a presentation forthcoming in the fall and then a standard B.S. senior thesis. 
 
I really appreciate anyone who took the time to read this! I have been stressing like crazy over what to do where I can likely get in so anyone giving me a general range of colleges would be appreciated.