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Thanks for your advice, I'm going for a masters program, you don't think that SHU's proximity to nyc would be an advantage over Claremont's? I've asked them directly and they admitted they don't have much in the way of Internship opportunities.

Hello all, I've been accepted into CGU's International Studies program and Seton Hall's IR program. CGU is in Claremont, California, and Seton Hall is in South Orange, NJ (close to NYC) Off the cuff I would think that Seton Hall should be my choice, but I wanted to get some more informed feedback, as I might not be right. My intended concentration is International Security, focused on Asia and South Asia. Does anyone have any useful advice? Thank you!

Thanks everyone for your great advice. I'm gonna talk to the admissions advisors at GW on monday and see what they say. Most likely, if I can't reasonably improve my application within a year, I'd go to SHU. In the meantime, does anyone know any good websites to look for IR internship opportunities?

I was really hoping to get into a D.C. school - I'd get a ton more opportunities there than I would get at Seton Hall. SHU is close to NYC and has strong ties to the UN, which is great, but ideally I'd want to be in DC to take advantage of State Department/DoD internships or even White House internship opportunities.

I applied to IR Programs in mostly international security or US foreign policy

Hello all, I'm new to the site, and wanted to get people's opinions on a question. I was admitted to SHU's Whitehead School but was rejected from Elliot, SIS, and presumably will not get into SFS. I am thinking about deferment for a year so that I could improve my application but first I wanted to get opinions on why I didn't get admitted to the school in the first place. The easy answer would be my low undergraduate GPA, but when I brought that issue up with the advisors, they said that since I was a science major, they would look primarily at my non-science courses/courses that would be more relevant to the graduate program. I'm hoping that other people here will be able to shed some light on the matter, and hopefully give me some good ideas for how to improve my application package. stats: GRE: 690V, 720Q, 5.5 AW GPA: 2.81 (Neuroscience) but non-science courses were all A's. Also took 2 Econ (micro/macro) and 1 IR class at local JC's, w/ all A's. 1 year of medical school, but withdrew (didn't like it) Work experience - undergraduate science research for 2 years at UCLA. Spent a year studying in the Caribbeans. 2 months in Shanghai interning at a law firm and taking intensive mandarin classes. Basic mandarin skills, hoping to improve them to conversational in grad school. Currently tutoring SAT's/GRE's/general school subjects Thank you!