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<p>Even if Harvard’s or Yale’s programs aren’t ranked very high, that definitely wouldn’t be a consideration if admitted, simply because they have awesome resources: excellent library collections, great professors, great facilities, etc. I believe Yale is partnered with a phonetics/phonology lab, too.</p>
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<p>Hmm, I’m undecided on Michigan. The NRC ranking places it quite low; Gourman places it very high, though that might be because Gourman’s a bit biased toward Michigan. I would think it might have a strong program given its peers, though other schools haven’t shown such a trend, so I don’t think that’d be valid logic.</p>
<p>I was curious about this before, so I posted in the Michigan community. I didn’t get many helpful responses, so I’m led to believe that Michigan’s ling department doesn’t stick out too much.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/355450-linguistics-weak-michigan.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/355450-linguistics-weak-michigan.html</a></p>
<p>Alexandre might be able to shed some light on the issue.</p>