<p>I want to major in linguistics. It’s sort of my passion. At my school I finished French V my junior year as opposed to senior as like everyone else and now this year I’m taking Spanish and Italian which are the other two languages offered. I know the subject is much more than just foreign languages though, at one of my jobs I have at a library I would take out books on the morphology, syntax and history of languages all the time.</p>
<p>Now I know Pitt isn’t known for it’s linguistics department, but I’m finding that no school in the northeast aside from some ivies and Middlebury (neither of which I’m getting into) actually is. Most don’t even have the major at all.</p>
<p>So as of now I’ve been looking for schools in the northeast (preferrably in a city) with a linguistics major that I have a chance of getting into. Lot of restrictions for a poor kid I know, but I figured why be miserable somewhere I don’t want to be doing something I don’t want to do. So as of now on my list are BU, Temple, CUNY Brooklyn, Pitt, UChicago, and Columbia (this one is more because my mom insisted I should “give it a shot” rather than my own confidence in being accepted).</p>
<p>Of all these, Pitt’s by far my favorite. It just clicked with me. The campus is beautiful, Pittsburgh is perfect sized and fun, and the cathedral of learning is unbelievable. I was really excited and telling all my friends little factoids about it like a little kid. I could see myself attending there and being absolutely ecstatic.</p>
<p>That’s the reason for Pitt. But I guess expecting them to give a full ride to someone OoT with only decent grades is kind of silly. Sorry for the giant wall of text, I guess I got carried away.</p>