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[quote=Anonymous]The people saying that a Women's Studies degree sets you up for a job as a barista or life on the streets are spouting nonsense. A high-preforming student in ANY major can get many types of job.  A C or B student will have a harder time.

I would 100% say Smith, from that list.  My general advise to students is to go to the best school they get in to (so, Brown), but Smith has excellent political science opportunities, good internship programs, a strong commitment to undergraduate education, and is generally a good place to go if you're interested in interdisciplinary studies. And, as a political science PhD, I promise you that the best departments for a discipline do not translate into the best undergraduate education because their primo faculty are lured to the school in part because they don't have to teach as much.  DH is a professor at a highly competitive Uni and his priorities are tenure (publishing), collaboration with other faculty, PhD students, MA students, service to the Uni, and undergrads, in that order.

Don't send your kid to a DC-area school for &quot;the internship opportunities.&quot;  I hire interns and the DC-based applicants are almost always the weakest.  Yeah, you can have MORE internships than if you went elsewhere, but more internships &lt;&gt; a good thing, to future employers. At a Smith or a Brown, you can probably spend a year off campus -- either abroad or in the US -- as well as summers.

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