<p>Hey...I am just trying to find someone doing linguistics at Cornell...shoot me a PM (if you don't mind) if you are currently at Cornell (grad or undergrad) and you are doing linguistics. I'll give you my AIM or Yahoo or MSN...whichever you want. </p>
<p>For those who are not curently enrolled but are applying as a linguistics major, what makes Cornell your top choice over others and where else did you apply?</p>
<p>(Yes I posted the same thing in the Penn forum but that's because I am interest in both schools)</p>
<p>I too am looking at linguistics at Cornell. I talked to a current undergrad doing linguistics/computer science. I dont feel comfortable copying and pasting what he told me without his permission, so i'll summarize what he told me about the linguistics program.</p>
<p>He said it was "small," only about 30 undergrads at any given time. He said that classes too were small, 15-20 being a very typical number. He was very happy with the teaching, mentioning that the staff, though not comprised of "world class linguists," was very dedicated to teaching and helping students.</p>
<p>He didn't have much more information, because his primary major and interest is computer science, not linguistics.</p>
<p>My thoughts: 30 undergrads is not a small number for a field like linguistics, but I find that number impossible to reconcile with Cornell's exceptionally large and active linguistics department. Look at their faculty page to see for yourself, its stunning. Not to mention all their labs and publications. Maybe the reason the department is so big but with few undergrads is that the graduate program is disproportionately large. Another reason might be that linguistics professors tend to teach a lot of non-linguistics classes (i.e. languages, logic, analytic philosophy, whatever). I also have to agree that despite its size, Cornell linguistics is not of the same caliber as MIT, Stanford, and some others. Where exactly it falls I don't know.</p>
<p>My top choice is not Cornell, but its pretty far up there because I know that with all their offerings, you can learn more about linguistics in four years than some graduate students in less linguistcs-focused universities will know before their second year of study.</p>
<p>where else are you considering and in which areas of linguistics are interested?</p>
<p>Considering lots of places.</p>
<p>All my interests are in formal theoretical linguistics: formal semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, syntax</p>
<p>oh....ok. In additon to Cornell, I am considering Penn, Chicago, McGill, Toronto, Washington(Seattle), Indiana-Bloomington, and Oregon. Penn, Cornell, and Chicago are tied for first place right now, but I think they are all very high reaches for me. I am considering other schools besides the ones listed, but these are the places in which I am most interested. </p>
<p>Anyone else here going for linguistics and would like to share their experiences here or get in conact with me?</p>
<p>I'd like to get in contact with you. Whats your sn?</p>
<p>I'll send ya PM! :)</p>