<p>Im a current senior at a private high school. I love ancient history and I know that I definetly want to major in classics or classical archaeology. My high school only offers latin, but when I graduate, I will have taken the highest classes offered: 3 honors Latin courses and Latin 4AP Virgil. I also will graduate with four years of Spanish: 3 Honors and Spanish 4AP. I would take Greek if our school offered it, but it doesnt. Will this affect me in college?</p>
<p>Also, my GPA is 3.8
I will be taking all Honors and AP classes offered, with the exception of Science.
I have rowed for our schools crew team for all 4 years and Ive been on Student Council for 2
Also, this summer I will either travel to do community service project in new mexico or our school's trip to italy.</p>
<p>I live in the northeast, and would like to go to college here, but no one seems to be able to help me on finding great classics programs, any help?</p>
<p>College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. They have an absolutely amazing classics program. And they offer some scholarships, full rides i think, to potential classics majors.</p>
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Holy Cross has the largest classics dept in the country.
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Holy Cross has neither the largest nor best classics department in the Northeast, let alone the country. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Universities
Boston University
Brown University
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Fordham University
George Washington University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Tufts University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
Yale University</p>
<p>Liberal Arts Colleges
Amherst College
Barnard College (if female)
Bowdoin College
Bryn Mawr College (if female)
Colgate University
Dickinson College
Franklin & Marshall College
Gettysburg College
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Swarthmore College
Trinity College
Vassar College
Wesleyan College
Williams College</p>
Personal familiarity. I study archaeology (Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Aegean). At some point or other, I closely examined every school on that list for either undergrad or grad. I don't study Greek or Latin, so it's not a comprehensive list for classics in general. </p>
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Since that's my area of interest within classics, most of the schools I listed are at least moderately strong in classical archaeology. Boston U, Tufts, Bryn Mawr/Haverford, Brown, JHU, F & M, Penn, Wesleyan, Cornell, and NYU are arguably the best in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic for your stats, although it's difficult to predict without test scores.</p>
<p>Hi, I'm entering college this fall at Holy Cross for Classics... I am actually one of the Bean Scholars for the Class of 2012... I just went through this whole process and did a ton of research and while IB's list is pretty comprehensive there are a few things you should consider.... I looked at a bunch of the schools on the list and quite a few had very limited departments simply based on the size of the department... for example some of the liberal arts schools have limited faculty (read 5 or 6) and only offer one advanced latin seminar a semester (often taught by the same exact professor repeatedly)... although they are good programs if you want a large active department these might not be the ones to consider. It all depends on what you are looking for. The schools with graduate programs usually have more extensive course offerings. I personally chose Holy Cross over Brown, Dartmouth, and Penn a) because of the money (free ride v. about 200,000... hello) and because b) it has a very strong, active undergraduate department. The department has 10 full-time faculty (all very nice and helpful) and usually two visiting professors and about 60-70 majors. They also have an active Latin honor society which hosts an annual Classics day, etc. So, IB, i think you should add Holy Cross to your list. </p>
<p>oh and also... BU has Latin scholarships also... you have to take a test though.</p>
<p>well since you live in the northeast you should absolutely visit campus and meet with a professor in the classics dept. the dept secretary can help you with that... professor joseph is very involved on the bean committee and professor nagy is very prominent in the dept... for the meeting it is also good to have a resume... i had a specific classics resume with my test scores, latin leadership, latin extra-currics, and latin summer programs on it etc... they are looking for active passionate latin students so make sure that comes through</p>
<p>A friend of mine claims that Berkeley has one of the best in the country, i believe they have a fantastic research/library tied into the program that is very useful. He seems pretty happy there so far so you might give it a try.</p>
<p>hc does not have a specific archaeology dept but they do have a couple professors who specialize in archaeology... if you look at a full course booklet you will see that under the classics courses there is a whole sequence of archaeology courses offered in alternating years.</p>
<p>oh and note.... i believe the nrc ranking list deals with graduate programs... you can also find grad program rankings at Find</a> the Graduate School That's Right for You — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide. when i did my research i could really only find online rankings for classics graduate programs. graduate rankings still give you a good idea for the quality of the undergraduate programs at those schools but they leave out all the great LAC programs.</p>