bruingirl11

Hi everyone! If any of you could please give me some feedback, it would be much appreciated. I have only applied to one Fall 2012 program at a local state school and was provisionally admitted with the requirement that I take 1 stats class. The school is unranked, only offered me loans, is evening/online, and will take four quarters (3k tuition per quarter). It is the only program that I have applied to, so far, since I am too late for Fall 2012 and too early for Fall 2013 programs. I am now debating whether I ought to go ahead and take this opportunity, or wait until this fall and apply for more highly ranked schools for Fall 2013. What sort of programs would any of you suggest that I should be aiming for with this profile? Potential Program: MPA and IR
 Undergrad: dual B.A.'s in Music Performance and Philosophy 
 Undergrad GPA: 3.4 
 GRE: verbal low 500’s / quant 425, and 4.5 I will be studying to improve this. Quant: I don't have any prior econ, math, or quant. coursework behind me. This and the GRE are my weak points. Goals: Either to prepare for an enter a career in foreign services, in City Management (Emergency Services/Safety), or City HR. 
 LOR: I am thinking of asking the city manager and an HR analyst that I am working under for LOR's. The academic letter may be difficult to get because I have been out of school for 5 years. Languages: German (intermediate) and Japanese (definitely need to work on this one) 
I have worked in education since graduating from a top 25 public university in '07. For the past 2.5 years I had been teaching English in Japan, and since the start of summer of this year I have been volunteer-working for full work-week hours at my local City Hall HR department, doing multiple policy research projects to help them update their EIIPP-related Risk Management policies (concerning DOT, zoonautics, worker's comp issues, and the like). I have also been volunteer interning in my local City Manager's office, helping with city events planning among other tasks. Thank you all in advance! For those of you who will be applying this fall, too, I will try my best to give feedback to your own submissions. : )

I may add my comment again soon, sorry for the filler post!