slipper1234

Hi guys,

I was an anthro major at Dartmouth and it was fantastic. The program is small and tightknit, but with exceptional profs who will invite you to their homes for dinner. Dartmouth offers so much to anthro majors. Here was my experience. Sophomore year I did a presidential scholarship where I worked on a research project one-one with a professor (available to those with a 3.3+GPA). Junior fall I then took a reading course one-one with a professor to prepare for the Clare Garber Goodman Grant, which gives up to $10K for undergrad anthro research. I got the grant and performed my research in the pacific, fully funded including gifts for my host family. I then came back senior year and had TWO advisors all year for my thesis. Also, I had a "culminating seminar" course. In the end, I probably had 6 classes with three or less people including my thesis.

To add to this there is a specific Dartmouth led study abroad in New Zealand. This is very different from most schools where study abroad is just outsourced to a local school, Dartmouth study abroad is led by Dartmouth professors.

I could not imagine a better academic experience at the undergrad level.

In turn, because so there are so many opportunities for Dartmouth students, they are great grad school applicants and tend to place exceptionally well into grad programs. My fellow majors who went on to pursue anthro grad school went to places such as Harvard, Chicago, and Cal (In fact I think almost 100% of the students I know who went to anthro grad school went to a top 5). Students who pursued other fields (like myself) go onto top 5 business, med, and law schools etc.

liz6298

mm...that's really exciting. i think dartmouth's just a little out of my league though.

do you know of any other schools (LAC's?) that are good for undergrad cultural anthropology?

Classik

bump for being exactly the question i'm asking myself right now

Brandt1659

I attend drew and while the professors are wonderful the programs suffering because the schools financial and administrative problems. Its become such that huge droves of students are leaving the school yearly to go elsewhere. So beware of the Administration at Drew its terrible.


As for anthropology programs I'll be a transpiring soon hopefully and I'm looking for any undergrad schools which would take a sophomore (will be a junior) into their anthropology program. I'm hoping to focus on Religious Anthropology.

Anyone have any suggestions?

aidaatbrown

@ renix:

which anthro class did you take at brown? i'm a freshman but i am taking anth 0200 right now and i'm pretty much falling in love with anthropology in general. and i'm trying to seek out more good anth classes to take in the future. suggestions?
thanks!