USC or UCSD---> Linguistics

Yama01
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:10:45 +0000

Hello everyone, I got into USC (East Asian Languages and Cultures) and UCSD (Linguistics). Both campuses seem great so I have difficulty choosing one…Although the campus at USC appears to be more active, lively, I feel like as an international student with Japanese and Taiwanese backgrounds, it is less meaningful to study East Asian languages and cultures under Western influence/education (?). If I do end up at USC, I feel like I will need to apply to double major with linguistics to make it more beneficial to find jobs once I finished undergrad (I want to teach linguistics with emphasis in Chinese in the future either as a high school teacher or ultimately a university professor [planning to continue until receiving doctor degree in linguistics]) Although the campus at USC is attractive, my research indicates that UCSD has a decent linguistics major with complication with neurobiology which adds diversity to the degree. However, the title of “University of California-Socially Dead” to a certain degree discourages me to accept the admission and the college I’m assigned to (Revelle college) also has a reputation of being terribly hard to graduate with high GPA. If possible, I’d like to transfer to UCLA, which has the world’s 2nd best applied linguistics major, in the beginning of my sophomore year but perhaps the low GPA (assuming Revelle is indeed too hard especially with required GE with physics, calculus, and chemistry…) will set me at a disadvantage to be admitted as transfer to UCLA? Thank you for your time and I’m really grateful with any help I can receive!