<p>I think I'd like to major in english and minor in psych/cognitive science. (Or maybe I'll major in journalism/communications - haven't quite made up my mind.)</p>
<p>I'd also like a smaller school, leaning towards 2-5 thousand, though I'm willing to consider anything at this point, knowing I might change my mind in the near future.</p>
<p>Any recommendations?</p>
<p>Kenyon college in ohio has one of the top english depts.</p>
<p>Elon University
Gettysburg College
Ithaca College
Marist College
Quinnipiac University
Susquehanna University
The College of New Jersey
University of Richmond</p>
<p>Allegheny
Amherst
Bard
Bowdoin
Brown
Bryn Mawr
Carleton
Centre
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Colorado College
Connecticut College
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dickinson
Duke
Emory
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg
Grinnell
Hamilton
Harvard
Haverford
Holy Cross
Illinois Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Knox
Lafayette
Lawrence
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Northwestern
Oberlin
Pomona
Princeton
Reed
Rhodes
Sarah Lawrence
Skidmore
Smith
Stanford
St. Olaf
Swarthmore
Trinity (TX)
U Chicago
U Dallas
U Richmond
U South
UVA
Vassar
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette
William & Mary
Williams
Yale</p>
<p>WOW that's a lot of schools.</p>
<p>I'll check them out and narrow them down.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>PS. I'd prefer to get a full-ride somewhere - do any of these schools offer merit aid? (Probably not getting much need-based aid, as my family is middle-class)</p>
<p>Yes, several of them (like Knox, Holy Cross, and Rhodes) are fairly generous with merit aid. I would also add Denison, which I forgot earlier. Princeton doesn't include loans in financial aid packages; some of the Ivies have a similar policy below a certain income (~$50-60k).</p>
<p>An incredible percentage of famous writers come out of Bennington, particularly given it's small size. This year 2 of the New York Times best 10 books of the year were written by a current professor and a Bennington alum. I don't know if that is helpful to you, in terms of a degree in English, but for what it is worth.......</p>
<p>I favor Oberlin and Amherst, both top shelf in English and Psych.
If a college says it only has need-based aid, and you're interested, look at the size of the endowment and not just the sticker price.
Use the FAFSA rough estimates (some kind of calculator) and ask folk to get some fin aid advice. Many "middle class" families still qualify for loans and on-campus work opportunities, if not some grant aid.
In the end, you might find a better financial situation from a wealthier college with a larger cost, than from a newer or less-well-endowed school with smaller initial pricetag.
Read CC's Fin Aid section and become an expert, or get your folks to, while you research colleges. Ask you Guidance Counselor, too.</p>
<p>Oberlin if you don't have super super good SATs. It's one of the bigger LACs. You can look at St. Olaf. It has about 3000 students. I dunno about their English department though.</p>
<p>hmm, alright thanks. :)</p>
<p>If I wanted to go into say, teaching, should that affect my college choice at all? Or should I choose based simply on major/fit.</p>
<p>jhu ranked #2 in writing seminars =D and i think they have a new program up due to the new donation which will involve a building of a new education school</p>
<p>If a PhD in English Literature is your goal, these schools provide the best foundation, as measured by the percentage of graduates later earning a PhD:</p>
<p>St. John's
Yale
Amherst
Bryn Mawr
Swarthmore
Bennington
Simon's Rock Bard
Oberlin
Reed
Williams</p>
<p>Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium</p>
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If I wanted to go into say, teaching, should that affect my college choice at all? Or should I choose based simply on major/fit.
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Yes, definitely. Not all colleges offer teaching certification, and there's no point in going into debt if you plan to teach.</p>
<p>But if I were planning to go to grad school, should I take that into account for undergrad? </p>
<p>Should I get my teacher's certification at the same school I go to undergrad for? Or does that become part of my masters. I'm kind of confused as how to become a teacher/professor.</p>
<p>In the U.S., you need teacher's certification to teach high school or younger. You can get this after you finish your four-year college in ANY academic/liberal arts major, but English is certainly a good one to have. You do not have to attend the same undergrad school as your teacher's college, not at all.
If you want to teach high school, figure one more year following the undergraduate 4 years, to get your "Master of Arts in Teaching" 36 credits where they teach you "how to teACH"</p>
<p>...(continued) and have you observed in practice teaching situations.
To teach college is entirely different. For that, you get advanced degrees (PhD, really, tho some might be able to do it with Masters + at a junior college if they were working towards their PhD). Which is why some students find their college teachers, although called "Dr..." do not always teach effectively, even though they are experts in their subjects.
If you want to know more, write more.</p>
<p>oops, i wrote incorrectly...for high school, you're expected to have a college major in the area you'd like to teach in high school.</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>How much does teaching for college differ from teaching high school?</p>
<p>That would depend on the college and the high school... Teaching English at Andover would likely be way more stimulating and challenging than teaching English at a so-so college, for example. Then again, many private High Schools hire people with Masters Degrees and Phds.</p>
<p>It's really more about what concentration do you want to go into. Some schools only offer a concentration in Creative Writing and Literature. Some offer professional writing concentrations. Some offer Language. It all depends on what area of English you plan on pursuing.</p>