<p>2coolegewego- univ of Washington does not participate in the western exchange. Oregon does not exchange with Ca residents.</p>
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<p>As mom60 pointed out, not every state school in Wa., Or., Colo, and Az participate in the Western Tuition Exchange. I’ve just been through this with another student I’m helping. We had to go through the schools one at a time to look for her programs. She kept wanting to apply to Univ. of Washington but I told her parents it’s a no go for California residents who aren’t the tippy top scholarship winner-types.</p>
<p>I can go back to College Board big future to see which schools are in the tuition exchange program; I just thought maybe you had a list. I did see your post, btw. Thank-you!</p>
<p>We still have five days before UCs and Cal State apps are in. My young friend may be satisfied with her list or she may be willing to take some of the suggestions I’ve shared based on recommendations from poster in this thread.</p>
<p>I’m just really curious as to how different each linguistics program is and if the schools on her list are less computational than say, an MIT or Stanford might be.</p>
<p>At any rate, thanks again for everyone’s help. I really appreciate it!</p>
<p><a href=“http://wue.wiche.edu/search_results.jsp?searchType=all[/url]”>http://wue.wiche.edu/search_results.jsp?searchType=all</a></p>
<p>Based on the lists, U of Hawaii Manoa and U of Arizona both participate in the exchange and have highly rated linguistics programs. </p>
<p>U Minnesota is about $19K tuition + $8K room and board for out-of-state residents:
[Costs</a> and Aid](<a href=“http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/tuition.html]Costs”>Cost of Attendance | Office of Admissions)</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook are only a bit more:
[UB</a> Undergraduate Admissions: Costs, Scholarships and Aid](<a href=“http://admissions.buffalo.edu/costs/index.php]UB”>Costs & Aid | Undergraduate Admissions | University at Buffalo)
[Stony</a> Brook University Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/financial/costs.shtml]Stony”>Cost & Financial Aid)</p>
<p>South Carolina is a few thousand more but their scholarships tend to allow out-of-state students to pay in-state resident rates. I wouldn’t be surprised if she is awarded scholarship money there:
[Costs</a> & Aid | Apply | Undergraduate Admissions | University of South Carolina (USC)](<a href=“Apply Now - Office of Undergraduate Admissions | University of South Carolina”>Apply Now - Office of Undergraduate Admissions | University of South Carolina)
[Non-Resident</a> | University of South Carolina](<a href=“Apply Now - Office of Undergraduate Admissions | University of South Carolina”>Apply Now - Office of Undergraduate Admissions | University of South Carolina)</p>
<p>Op, you might want to check the websites of USC and UC Davis to see the average data of their incoming classes. Her stats may line up with both places. To answer your question, from my impression (sorry didn’t look up data set, but know kids at both places), USC is easier to get into than Pomona.</p>
<p>Edit: based on the common data sets on SAT scores, USC IS easier to get into than Pomona</p>
<p>[USC</a> Institutional Assessment and Compliance](<a href=“Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics - Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics | University of South Carolina”>Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics - Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics | University of South Carolina)</p>
<p>[Common</a> Data Set 2010-2011 - Pomona College](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/common-data-set/2010-2011.aspx]Common”>http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/common-data-set/2010-2011.aspx) </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20102011.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20102011.pdf</a></p>
<p>No undergraduate program will have a computational focus, even at MIT or Stanford. Most schools will require an introductory survey course, a course in phonology and a course in syntax. Then there will be electives, which might include courses such as morphology, semantics, historical linguistics, language and society, etc. Some will require a foreign language, preferably a non-Indo European language, but you don’t need to be fluent or even conversational in a foreign language to do linguistic work on it.</p>
<p>Linguistics is formal and scientific, but straight theoretical work on language structure need not not involve any numbers. It’s about trying to find patterns in the language itself. The work is more like the GRE logical reasoning section than it is like an SAT math section or even statistics.</p>
<p>Just reminding you of Pitzer as an alternate to Pomona. The Five College Consortium means she can take most/all of her classes at any of the five schools which would probably give her everything at Pomona in addition to a very large selection of other possibilities.</p>
<p>The link for WUE is great. You can click on each school and it tells you what majors are WUE eligible. University of Arizona is only WUE eligible in one major. Te school might still be an option as the OOS tuition in not sky high.</p>
<p>Depending on the college and how it structures this particular major, linguistics can be very tough, demanding. There was a time when ling exhausted kids at ucla. </p>
<p>You have to research the actual courses available at the schools. You have to have an understanding of what a given student is capable of versus whether he/she is better suited to a softer version. Some of this is hunchy. Some really boils down to reading the course descrptions and maybe looking up the syllabus, expectations and readings. Are the profs directly involved in ling research and at what level? Many schools have dept blogs and may discuss the level of research kids are into. </p>
<p>Of course, she may change her major, so you look at those possible 2ndary interests, as well. It’s something we did before this point in sr year, for D1’s interest in another major.</p>
<p>Usc and ucla might be a reach. I think you can get into ucd.
&& I’m not familiar with the other schools.</p>
<p>Good luck!(:</p>
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<p>Upthread someone asked about linguistics at the University of Rochester. I went and looked it up, and they happen to have a very well laid out description of different concentrations within linguistics and precisely which courses are required for each:</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Linguistics at the University of Rochester - Undergraduate Programs](<a href=“http://www.ling.rochester.edu/undergrad_programs.html]Department”>http://www.ling.rochester.edu/undergrad_programs.html)</p>
<p>Thank you Consolation. URochester is ranked well, has a good reputation and I’ve always heard it gives merit scholarships. It seems like a good option (other than BU) if she wants to add a private.</p>
<p>The common data set for USC listed above is for South Carolina. Given that this is a CA student, the USC in question may be Southern CA. If so, here is the freshman profile info for the current class.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>If USC is one of her top choices they seem to be very transfer friendly. I know many strong students who have done 1 or 2 yrs at the CC first. It saved them a lot of money.</p>
<p>Also regarding UC Davis. My D got into Davis with a lower Math SAT score.Davis admits by school. If she is already applying to UC Davis and UCLA it would be easy to add Santa Cruz. No additional app work just another payment.</p>
<p>Regarding Pitzer and Scripps. If she loves Pomona she should definitely apply to these. From the students I know who have gone to the Claremont Colleges it is easy to cross register. At Pitzer I think you can design your own major.</p>
<p>The University of Arizona has a great linguistics department and there are a lot of California students there.</p>
<p>I did recommend the following schools for merit aid:</p>
<p>U of A
U of Hawaii
Portland State Univ.
Michigan State Univ. (I think)</p>
<p>I also recommended adding at least one of the following schools that claims to meet 100% of need:</p>
<p>Pitzer
Scripps
Malcalester
Carleton</p>
<p>I didn’t recommend Rochester because it seems the more mathy kids go there and that they are looking for higher math SAT scores.</p>
<p>Here’s some new info that I’m working with.</p>
<p>Family EFC is about 22K but will probably go down next year.</p>
<p>Unweighted gpa is 3.44.</p>
<p>What I’m trying to do now is confirm schools that will most likely give merit aid for that gpa plus the SAT of either 2160 or the combined 1370 (CR and M) in addition to all the ECs and awards she has, and add at least one of those. I think schools in the Western Exchange would be good, but I don’t want to miss a gem that’s out of the area.</p>
<p>The list needs to have a limit, though. College app fees really add up.</p>
<p>Carleton is too much of a reach, IMHO, to be the only school added from that list–and they are need-aware.</p>
<p>What about Santa Cruz? Is there some objection to it?</p>
<p>Not sure, Consolation. I’ve suggested UCSC. </p>
<p>I didn’t check to see which schools are need aware.</p>