Hello all,
I’m a rising sophomore a rising sophomore who fell in love with geography second semester of freshman year after taking my first course. I currently attend Georgetown SFS, which unfortunately does not offer geography as a major or minor, so I’m trying to find programs that do. So far I’ve identified UChicago and Dartmouth, but both look like long shots, and GWU. Does anyone know other well-regarded geography programs or resources to find them? In addition, does anyone have any suggestions for how I could improve my chances and show passion for geography in my application? I was fortunate enough to get an internship where I have the opportunity to do some geographic research this summer, but will that be sufficient to demonstrate interest?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Is it necessary that you attend a peer institution of Georgetown SFS? If that is the case, you may be better off staying there and taking all the geography-related courses you can find, and majoring in whatever is easiest to graduate in.
College Navigator finds more than 200 undergraduate programs in Geography. To help weed through them, start with the people you are interning with right now. Do they have any specific recommendations? http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=all&p=45.0701&l=93&ct=1+2&ic=1
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Thank you for that list! It’s been very useful. I would prefer to attend a peer institution of Georgetown, but I guess I’ll have to consider letting go of that to have a good chance at transferring.
Unfortunately the person I’m currently assisting is British and he doesn’t know much about US undergraduate geography programs. I get the sense that most got graduate degrees in geography and majored in something else as undergrads. Perhaps I’m better off staying at Georgetown and orienting myself towards applying to a geography graduate program.
Thank you for your reply!