<p>What college (undergrad)...and what can we do with this in regard to careers?? Any info would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>The best for these sorts of fields (I call them “tweed jacket with shoulder patches and bowtie” fields) is Yale.</p>
<p>Most majors in these fields don’t enter careers relevant to their majors…unless they become archaeologists or professors. These fields are liberal arts majors…the sorts of majors you take purely to develop your knowledge and enjoy learning. Then you go to business or law school.</p>
<p>These threads are always so annoyingly vague. There are 4000 colleges in the US, and quite a few of them offer what you want.</p>
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<li>Which part of the country (Midwest, Southeast, etc.)?</li>
<li>Public or private?</li>
<li>Coed or single-sex?</li>
<li>Rural, suburban, or urban?</li>
<li>Small (< 2000), medium (2000-10000), or large (10000+)?</li>
<li>Is cost an issue?</li>
<li>Do you want certain extracurricular activities, like a fencing team?</li>
<li>Popular Greek life or no Greek life?</li>
<li>Do you have special needs (LD, physically disabled, etc.)?</li>
<li>How selective do you want?</li>
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<p>completely agree with IBClass.</p>
<p>I mean, AT LEAST give us something to narrow down the endless list of colleges???</p>
<p>here goes…:
coed
medium size
public or private
suburban or urban
college volleyball for female
eastern US
93/100 average
no special needs
maybe jesuit
would like to spend money on grad school vs undergrad because History majors always need to move on…</p>
<p>Georgetown</p>
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<p>I was going to ask what you like to call these fields, but I didn’t know who you were.</p>
<p>“Because it harbors beauty.”</p>
<p>[Why</a> Study History? - American Historical Association](<a href=“http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm]Why”>http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm)</p>
<p>Because you (wisely) wish to save money for graduate school, look closely at your local flagship university. It will likely have decent history/anthropology/archeology departments. It should be easy to discern which professors are among the better known. Try to develop relations with them so that you can get great recommendations from people whose names top graduate schools recognize.</p>
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Not at all. GWU is much stronger in these areas.</p>
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It depends on what you mean by graduate school. PhD programs usually fully fund their students; medical and law schools do not.</p>
<p>Boston U is perhaps the school that first comes to mind for you. It’s quite strong in all three fields and is reasonably generous with merit aid. Tufts is a bit smaller and more of a reach, but it also meets most of your criteria.</p>
<p>GWU isn’t Jesuit. Georgetown is. And yes, definitely take the state school if you are in a state with great publics (CA, MI, WI…)</p>
<p>And for a 3.6/2130 student who is interested in archeology? He doesn’t want a large school, prefers not to be in the deep south or the northwest, won’t need financial aid and isn’t anti-Greek…any recommendations?</p>
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Beloit College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
College of Wooster
Dickinson College
Franklin & Marshall College
George Washington University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Haverford College (reach)
New York University (reach)
Oberlin College
Tufts University (reach)
University of Chicago (reach)</p>
<p>He should look at Lycoming as a safety, which is great for undergraduate archaeology (it has William Dever on staff!).</p>
<p>Archeologist,
Thank you for the list. Some of the recommended schools we have seen already and others are on the upcoming itinerary. </p>
<p>I am not certain I agree with NYU being a reach, based on their Class of 2012 profile (GPA 3.63, SAT middle 50%: 1300-1440). My son’s 3.6 is unweighted, he will be a NMSF and he attends a very well-respected private school that historically places 10-15% of its graduates in Ivys/Stanford/MIT. </p>
<p>I will certainly look into Lycoming which is completely unfamiliar to me. And comments on Washington and Lee’s archeology program?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University announced last month that it will offer an archaeology major separate from its current anthropology program, according to The Johns Hopkins News-Letter.</p>
<p>A separate archaeology program is rare in American universities. Of the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and Virginia Tech, only U.Va. offers an interdisciplinary major in archaeology as well as anthropology.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins also is ranked top ten for history. The new archaeology major was inspired in part by the University’s new plans to renovate its Archaeological Collection as part of the Gilman Hall renovation and will be available in fall of 2009. </p>
<p>Hopkins regularly sends teams of students to go to digs in archeological sites in Egypt and is one of the few US schools that offer Egyptology and Assyriology as majors…</p>
<p><a href=“http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2008/11/20/NewsFeatures/Archaeology.Major.To.Be.Offered.In.Fall.2009-3555385.shtml[/url]”>http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2008/11/20/NewsFeatures/Archaeology.Major.To.Be.Offered.In.Fall.2009-3555385.shtml</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://flathatnews.com/content/69631/archaeology-stay-part-anthropology-department[/url]”>http://flathatnews.com/content/69631/archaeology-stay-part-anthropology-department</a></p>
<p>Phead,
The decison by JHU to upgrade their archeology studies to a major is very exciting. Thank you for posting the information…will definitely look into visiting there soon.</p>
<p>Great news Phead, thanks so much. We appreciate your insight.</p>
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Er, “teams” is a slight exaggeration. I’m quite familiar with Betsy Bryan’s work in Egypt, and while she does indeed bring a few students with her, they’re nearly all graduate students. I’ve never known more than one or two undergraduates to go at a time. </p>
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I know very little about it since it mostly focuses on North American archaeology (I study Old World), but I’ve heard it’s a solid program.</p>
<p>(Sorry if I’m sort of hijacking the thread, but I’m also interested in an anthro/archae major…)</p>
<p>Does anybody know more about the anthropology/archaeology program at UChicago? I know it’s excellent (especially the Near Eastern/Egyptology department), but aside from that, I’m relatively unacquainted with it.</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with it directly, but perhaps poking around the website and e-mailing a few people would be helpful:</p>
<p>[University</a> of Chicago: Department of Anthropology](<a href=“http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/]University”>http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/)</p>
<p>This course catalog is updated all the time, but we do have archaeology course offerings:
<a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/ANTH.pdf[/url]”>http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf_09/ANTH.pdf</a></p>
<p>The other thing I’d point out is that Chicago has the Field Museum, which takes interns and is maybe 20 minutes from campus.</p>