Double majoring with Math and Something else, also accompanied by some college search

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<p>First of all, I'd like to thank everyone visiting this for their consideration in my future.</p>

<p>I hope to enter the Department of the State as a foreign service specialist. Not entirely sure what this entails, I'm having difficulty deciphering their website, but international work to help my country (USA) in diplomacy or something similar is important to me. From an inside source, the most valued skills are strengths in math, fluency in languages of related regions, with greatest influence on Arabic, followed by other Middle Eastern languages, South Asian Languages, and Chinese dialects. </p>

<p>I plan on double majoring with a mathematics major, ideally Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences/Mathematics in the Social Sciences, but anything Math/Statistics or Quantitative/Mathematical Economics should be fine as well. </p>

<p>What I'm more concerned about is my 2nd major. I would like to do either an Area Studies or International Relations, with the other as a minor. Which one should I put in which spot, and which Area Studies should I do?</p>

<p>I am most interested in South Asia and Southeast Asia, so schools offering majors/minors in these areas will be preferable. After that would be Middle Eastern Studies, then Eastern European Studies. Would like to learn Hindi, Arabic, Javanese, other major Indian languages, then Russian, in that order. Which schools would be best in these programs, with some detail into which programs? </p>

<p>FYI, current considered schools include:
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Northwestern
Stanford
Yale
Columbia
Brown
Tufts
University of Washington
University of Texas (Native Texan top 10%, extreme backup school)</p>

<p>Although I am open to any other recommendations, except UPenn. Honestly, everyone I've met that went there, including their college representatives in tours, have upset me and I will not consider it if the best they have to offer are people insulting to me.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>If you’re most interested in South and Southeast Asia, while some of the schools you are currently considering are strong in those areas, some others are not.
For South Asian studies, consider Chicago, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For Southeast Asian studies, consider Cornell, Wisconsin, and Michigan.</p>

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<p>Like the above poster said, I would second Wisconsin if you’re interested in South Asia. I’m not sure, but I also believe that Wisconsin offers strong options in Urdu as well as Hindi. In most schools, if you’re interested in Urdu they’ll teach you the script on the side or cover it lightly, but Wisconsin takes things a bit more seriously. (Urdu and Hindi are colloquially the same language, but with different scripts.) Additionally, I was able to find old Urdu short stories through Wisconsin’s website that I was unable to find anywhere else. If was quite amazing. </p>