possible Linguistics major?

ClassicRockerDad
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:20:53 +0000

I looked at your other post and your GPA is roughly 3.58. That’s quite respectable. Stop beating yourself up.

I’ve looked into linguistics programs since that was one of the majors my D considered. It’s really hard to find linguistics majors at LACs where your classes are taught by real scholars of linguistics. When my D looked pretty much Swarthmore was the only LAC to have more than 2 tenure-track linguistics, and only Pomona had even 2.

In addition to the schools mentioned by tk21769, less selective schools with decent linguistics include:
Brandeis, Rochester, and UC Santa Cruz, UPitt, McGill and UToronto.

Of these Rochester and Brandeis have more of a liberal arts college feel, whereas the others are really big public universities.