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Programs: MPA, MPP Schools: Berkely, UCLA, USC, Cornell, CMU, Brown, UPenn, HKS? Undergraduate institution: UC school Undergraduate Major: Economics Undergraduate GPA: ~3.3 overall; ~3.76 last two years; ~3.85 in major GRE Have not yet taken. Am currently studying, but Power Prep has me at 161V 166 Q. ? AW and I am hoping to score a few points higher in total than that. Years Out of grad school (if applicable): 2.5 Years of Work Experience: 2.5 Describe Relevant Work Experience: 15 months in AmeriCorps VISTA with lots of responsibility and accomplishments doing program eval and data analysis in the education world. 12 months doing title 1 tutoring. 6 months T.A. in public school. Languages: Spanish: Conversational Quantitative: Stats: A; Majored in economics with all A's except for a few B+'s. A in Business Calc 1 and a C in Business Calc 2 SOP: About my experiences in AmeriCorps, working in public education and my desire to continue working in that space as an evaluator and policy analyst. LOR: Two letters from prominent officials that I worked with while in VISTA, one from an econ professor. Questions: Will it hurt that two of my letters of rec are from the same organization? I am going to ask them to focus on different things. I have a job offer from the organization I did VISTA with which I will likely take after I get back from my traveling/studying for gre hybrid sojourn, hopefully in time to be noted on my grad school applications. Will it look poorly if I took some time off to travel? Do I have a chance of being admitted to top programs (Berkeley, HKS)? Any input would be appreciated.

Howdy neighbor, They do have a stats class. Check it out.