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[quote=Anonymous]Posted above about the tiers. Those included Tufts and Midd but I disagree with some of the posters that so confidently state one of those two are best and dismiss the DC schools.

I worked in the international affairs division of a major executive branch agency for about a decade. Our interns were regularly GW, SAIS, Georgetown, American, and UMD students during the year, usually in that order. Mix of grad and undergrad. Summers we got Kennedy, SIPA, whatever they call the Princeton school now. Maybe a Tufts in there but can’t recall. Never had a Midd or any of the others. When I ran the intern program for our office, we would actively send out the posting to career services at the schools I named, but we didn’t send to Midd, Occidental, USC, or the like.

I asked my friend who manages one of the offices there now what their interns look like this term. Five GW undergrads, one Georgetown undergrad, two SAIS grads, one UMD grad.

Disagree with the idea that you shouldn’t aim for places based on internships. They aren’t that rare here if you have a shot at fall, spring, and summer. And it is your career—you can’t just disqualify yourself preemptively.

I was a PMF and many of the other PMFs in my grad school class wanted to land at State. Only two did, one who had extensive work experience, and one who had gone to GW for undergrad and had interned…at State.

Agree with the other poster who said pair IR with something else. I am now at a “UN type job” in “Poli sci/econ with an international context” to use OP’s words, and our interns and new hires are all econ PhD students.[/quote]

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