<p>Yellow, to rephrase the question I asked, what’s the nature of your interest in “language and science”? Do you see these as two distinct sets of interests? Or do think you would be interested in how they intersect, in a field such as Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Human Language Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Speech Pathology, etc.? If it’s the latter (as I suspect, from your reference to PNP), WUSTL likely will offer more course offerings, and a better research environment.</p>
<p>It is very satisfying to learn to speak one or two languages well. However, if you do foresee a serious academic interest in some area of cognitive science, it probably would be more interesting (and useful) for you to become familiar with the basic structure of 4 or 6 or 10 diverse languages. WUSTL offers Swedish, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi, Swahili, Portuguese, and perhaps a few other “less commonly taught” languages that Middlebury may not offer.</p>
<p>Middlebury is a great college, though. Have you looked into their Neuroscience program? That seems to be Middlebury’s answer to WUSTL’s “PNP”.</p>