<p>And am forced to go to my local state university, where the average SAT score is 1560, and don’t even offer linguistics as a major. </p>
<p>I am actually trying to reassure myself, in a “see, even if you utterly fail all your applications, it can’t be <em>that</em> bad” sort of way. How would I get back on track to a good grad school?</p>
<p>1.) What are the odds that you’re actually going to get rejected by every single one? From what I’ve seen you post, I’d be very surprised. 
For any future applicants, it’s always good to find a safety school you can actually see yourself attending (otherwise, why apply?), and trust me, out of thousands of schools, there ought to be one.</p>
<p>2.) Even if you do end up going to your State U, you might actually end up liking it. I know a few people who ended up at their safeties for one reason or another and ended up loving the school they thought they wouldn’t. You might discover a different passion.</p>
<p>3.) If all else fails, do really, really well at the state school and apply to transfer. Someone a teacher of mine once taught ended up at a community college and transfered the next year into Berkeley.</p>