Where do kids like mine go? Smart but no hooks [ME resident, 4.0 GPA, 1570 SAT, <$50k]

Yes, I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility of applying to the U.K., for a student with such strong stats (but it’s a very different application and due very early). My spouse did a PhD in historical linguistics (at Cambridge), her advisor left to become a professor at Edinburgh. Both great options (and relatively cheap compared to top US universities, $50K might be slightly optimistic at current exchange rates but Cambridge is only 3 years), especially now Cambridge has an undergrad linguistics degree with both computational and historical papers:

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