<p>I have narrowed down my list to schools in the Northeast. My list consists of 10 schools, which are, in no particular order, Lafayette, Trinity, Bucknell, Skidmore, Brandeis, Bowdoin, Tufts, John Hopkins, Cornell, and Duke.
I am pretty unsure of what to major in, but I am leaning toward a possible anthropology major or literary major. I do not need you to tell me what are reaches or targets, just on your knowledge of the quality of their history, english, literary, and anthropology departments as well as the professors that teach.</p>
<p>The English Departments are excellent at Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Brandeis. They may be good at the other schools as well; I don’t have personal knowledge of them.</p>
<p>I’ll offer just a little bit of help. I’m sure that the profs at Duke in all the areas you mention will know it’s not in the Northeast. You can research the rest.</p>
<p>Might look at Holy Cross and Colgate. HC has very good English department.</p>
<p>Hopkins has a number of famous authors in their creative writing department and the department is supposed to be excellent. I would encourage you to apply to Middlebury for English/creative writing. Anthropology is also a good department there and they just added a global health minor that is based in the anthro/soc department.</p>
<p>Hamilton has strong creative writing program. Concur with Holy Cross recommendation. Obama’s Chief Speechwriter was class of 2003 at Holy Cross.</p>