<p>So how inter-disciplinary do you want this to be? I really like the inter-disciplinary part of this - especially if I'd go to graduate school in the social science (which is of course the opposite of interdisciplinary!).</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but I don't exactly know what they mean by "inter-disciplinary". Does that mean that you would study economics, history, language, etc.?</p>
<p>You're studying more than one subject in a field.</p>
<p>So pretty much just what I said?</p>
<p>Yeah - you'd basically use whatever approaches you want to understand an area. So one person might do independent work using anthropological methodology, and another might use economic arguments.</p>
<p>So what schools are you considering? I'm applying to Duke, Columbia, and UNC. After that, I hope to get into SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs) at Columbia or maybe Georgetown's SFS, or a few others.</p>
<p>Berkeley is ranked number one in Asian Studies. Harvard, UCLA, and Stanfurd follow next. </p>
<p>I personally found the East Asian courses to be top notch at Berkeley. Berkeley actually has a faculty that discovers things about Asia that historians in Asia did not know. which you cannot say for other schools...</p>
<p>Well I'm Princeton '08. Those are good schools - I'd suggest Columbia if it comes down to an admissions choice, just because it is in New York.</p>
<p>My dream plan right now is to go to an academic PhD program - either after one year of work or straight after college.</p>
<p>I don't know which one - grad school admissions is even more of a crapshoot than undergrad admissions.</p>
<p>^ For Grad school admissions, Professor recommendations are very very important. </p>
<p>Princeton is good in Asian Studies, but a recommendation from a Asian studies professor at Princeton is not going to carry the same weight as one from Berkeley, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanfurd.</p>
<p>I know one girl who went to UCSD for her PhD in Chinese studies, and she chose UCSD over Yale PhD.</p>
<p>I would also suggest Columbia</p>
<p>I don't really want to major in this, I just think it's a really fascinating plan. What area would you concentrate in? I personally find Japan to be where my interest lies.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I'm doing East Asian, but most likely an Asian. Either Near/Middle/Far East or possibly even central asian studies. I'll take 4 years of 2 languages, and another 2 years or so of a third language. I'll probably continue in the two years of grad school. Between then, I hope that I can teach english in those countries, to get a better grasp of the languages, then go to grad school. I'll probably do economics, languages (obviously), and maybe history too.<br>
Japan and China interest me too, but I'd prefer languages with an alphabet. Memorizing 2,000 characters just doesn't seem too easy.</p>
<p>Im an hs student applying to East asian studies major to columbia, cornell, and nyu. IDK i like studying chinese, in fact i study multiple dialects of it + japanese. Its great for business, + i like languages and history!</p>
<p>what grade are you in? I'm a senior. I've been trying to get a head start, and learn some Korean and Russian, but I just don't have much time with work and AP classes. How about you?</p>
<p>Im a senior at hs, ive taken 4 years of mandarin, outside of school I learn japanese and cantonese, and from my jobs and from traveling in china i can speak pretty good shanghainese, taiwanese, sichuanese, fujian, and yunnanese</p>
<p>You're really lucky to not only travel outside the country, but also have languages other than spanish and french at your school. That's pretty amazing that you speak so many dialects.</p>
<p>Mekrob what made you so interested in EAS I know you also applied to COlumbia U. for EAS and they have a great program, they're also really picky about the EAS applicants so Im wondering what made you interested in EAS</p>
<p>I just kinda got into politics and IR after 9/11 (was just coming into HS at the time). Asian studies just seems so appliable to economics and IR/poli sci jobs with the growing influence of India, China, etc. The languages have also been interesting to me, primarily Korean, Arabic, Japanese, and a few others a little less. I'm not fixed on EAS, but most likely an asian studies program. My other schools make great alternatives to Columbia, especially since I'm instate for UNC, so it's much cheaper and almost a guarantee.</p>
<p>what colleges have the best undergrad EAS program?</p>
<p>Harvard and Columbia have the largest libraries for them, I believe. I'd imagine that Chicago and Georgetown are pretty good. Maybe Yale, Princeton, etc. Not so sure, just good humanities schools in general.</p>