Cross-majoring at Swarthmore

eliana
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:42:36 +0000

interesteddad - thanks so much for all the help! I didn’t know Swat was such a great place for linguistics. I’ve actually seen The Linguists (I’m really passionate about the field! :)).I’m definitely applying there. I think I have a good shot at getting in, but since it’s so selective there’s a good chance I won’t, as well, and that’s why I began considering Bryn and Haverford in the first place. I’m going to try my best to fit in a visit before school begins this fall so that I can see if I love it enough to apply early and improve my chances of being accepted! Do you know anything about the linguistics departments at other liberal arts colleges? Some others I’m interested in are Macalester, Carleton, Pomona, and Reed.

luckie - Right now linguistics is the field that I’m most passionate about and that I can see myself working in, and it has been since I was a freshman, but I can’t say that I’m absolutely certain it will be my major because I know that young people’s interests change all the time and that most college students end up changing their majors. So I guess the short answer is that right now, yes, I’m certain, but there’s no way to predict what my future self will be like. But whether or not my interests change while I’m in college, I think that I definitely need to go somewhere that has a linguistics department, because how else will I know if it is or isn’t the field for me? I hope that made sense!