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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I’d choose Middlebury from this list. Beautiful campus (an actual campus, as opposed to GW which is a cluster of unremarkable buildings), with a very strong emphasis on international studies, econ, and languages. Midd students do just fine when it comes to internships. Of course you’ll find more GW and American students in internships in DC—a function of proximity and school size. GW has 26,000 students—Middlebury has 2,700. Tufts would be my second choice. Didn’t love the campus, but it’s close to Boston and has a strong IR program. [/quote]

academically, midd is great but "fit" is very dependent on the student. there's not much to do at midd outside of outdoorsy pursuits. middlebury is in rural vermont. yes it's a 4.5 hour amtrak to nyc but that's hardly doable for a day trip. montreal, canada is the closest large city (and you have to pass a border patrol) and it's a 2.5-3 hour drive.

I like tufts, followed by middlebury, for academic reasons. either would work well for this student and the student should decide if they want to easy access to a major city (tufts wins) or if they want to be in a buccolic campus in a rural town far away from it all (midd wins). BUT if they would get bored in a remote location, do not go to midd. also, while tufts has easy access to boston on the T, it also has walking distance access to davis square and red line access to cambridge. so much more to do outside of campus if that matters to this student. both are strong in IR, tufts is a bit stronger but midd is close as well.

gw is great if the student knows they want to do IR, and nothing else but.

good luck OP![/quote]

I would agree with this -- after having done a lot of research on schools because my kid has the same interests. I think on academics/prestige/strength in these areas, the choice is between Tufts and Midd. After that, the student needs to pick based on fit, location, etc. [/quote]

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