<p>Which of these schools have the best English program?
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown
UC Berkeley
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Middlebury
UNC
Northwestern
University of Notre Dame
Princeton
USC
Stanford
Vanderbilt
UVA
Wesleyan
William and Mary
Williams
Yale</p>
<p>You cannot go wrong at any one of them. However, the kind of guidance you need as a major might be more readily available at some of these. How much time will you get with the faculty at Yale or Stanford compared to the faculty at Amherst and Bowdoin? You might have some really good grad student instructors at the former, but you won’t have any poor grad student instructors at the latter. A faculty member at the latter might teach 3+2 or 2+2, whereas the faculty at the former, if they’re teaching 2+2, is teaching at least one graduate course each semester and is spending a lot of energy on their graduate student responsibilities and publications. If you can attend any one of these, I would think seriously about an LAC for undergraduate education in English. I have no significant affiliation with any of these schools, but I am an English professor.</p>
<p>You missed Kenyon College.</p>