<p>OP, my DS had a very high SAT, but the grades didn’t match (they were somewhat lower - I concur that yours don’t rule out any school). He’s also intending to major in linguistics, so the list I’ll suggest is given with that in mind (all these schools offer decent programs in that major), as well as merit/meets-need aid considerations:</p>
<p>Pitt (they’re not real generous with merit $ for in-state, though)
CMU (only if you’re interested in computational linguistics)
Ohio State (arguably the best linguistics program in the country)
U Penn (also very strong, but very Chomsky-ian, I believe)
Swarthmore (ditto)
U Rochester
U Chicago (the core makes it hard to focus on both linguistics and econ, though)
Grinnell
Pitzer
Tulane
Stanford
Miami U (Ohio)
Michigan State*
Baylor*
U Arizona*
U Oklahoma *
U Alabama Tuscaloosa (BUT you will have to do a self-designed linguistics major)*
Northeastern *</p>
<p>Schools with * have guaranteed big merit $ for high stats/NMF. For the record, my son chose U Oklahoma. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>