<p>Hi, I am a junior and have a list of schools that I am looking at for a cultural anthropology degree. I am also looking to go to grad school and hopefully get my PhD. </p>
<p>From pretty good public school in CT.</p>
<p>Stats:
UW GPA: 3.6ish. (I had a terrible freshman year)
W GPA: 4.2 (my GPA will raise after this year)
SAT: Aiming for a 2000.
Rank: Don't really know.. top 20%?
APs: Can't start taking APs until Junior year. I am currently taking AP Lang and APUSH.
Senior year schedule: AP Pysch, AP Government, AP Econ, AP Stats, AP Lit, AP environmental, Honors world literature, honors oceanography, and honors theoretical humanities.
ECS: I have an internship at a museum where I curate exhibits, photograph their archaeological pieces for their website, photograph their gift shop and exhibits, complete research, along with a lot of other random things. I am going to be able to get a fantastic rec from my boss.
I have also gone on 4 archaeological digs in my state where I worked with multiple PhDs. I also had another internship in a city half way across the country from me at a museum that I hope to work at one day. I worked there with collections management.
Additionally, I tutor advanced writers at the local elementary school.
Clubs: Global Voice (10,11,12)
Peer Leadership (9,10)
Event coordinator for a freshman-immersion program (11,12)</p>
<p>I also really love landscape photography and plan on entering professional shows this year. I plan on sending a supplement for it. I also have a personal website for my photography and museum work. (I can PM you the link if you want to see it). </p>
<p>Here is my list:
Bowdoin (top choice, probably EDI)
Colgate (second choice)
Colby (tied for second choice)
Bates
Skidmore
Gettsyburg
Dickinson
Lafayette<br>
Lycoming
U of Mary Washington </p>
<p>What other schools could I look at that would be good for me? (I know my list is top-heavy). I really want to stay in the northeast, no more south than Virgina.</p>
<p>Are finances important to you? If you are going to have to take out loans to go to an LAC, I would suggest putting some financial safeties on the list. Anthro majors don’t make a lot of money typically, and grad schools will need to be paid for.</p>
<p>You sound a lot like me…I’m also a photographer interested in anthropology applying to Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, and Skidmore (although I’m applying to the Maine schools because I like their environmental science programs, which is also what I want to major in). I’d be interested in seeing your website, can you PM it to me?</p>
<p>University of Michigan and University of Chicago both have really great anthropology programs, if you want to look into those two.</p>
<p>@Taft10: Wow, that’s crazy. I will PM my site to you. I was thinking about U Chicago, but I don’t think I really have the slightest chance there.</p>
<p>Beloit always seems to be mentioned for anthropology. There are tons of threads on the college search forum for anthropology. You might want to add in a few bigger places with bigger programs just for comparison if you are deciding in April. Check if you can do ED I at Bowdoin as well as early action at Michigan.</p>
<p>Don’t know about the anthropology programs, but some other great LACS you can check out are Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Bucknell, and Middlebury, just off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Okay great thanks guys! I’m fairly apprehensive when looking at Michigan because it is so far away from home, but thanks for all the suggestions </p>
<p>I have very comparable scores and experience to you and I will be applying early decision to University of Richmond (for international studies and cultural anthropology). I know you said it may be too far away, but its a nice school and its anthropological programs are respected and moving up. I looked at a lot of the schools you are thinking of btw. A lot are very rural campuses which do not offer a lot of opportunity outside of the campus, but thats just my opinion.</p>
<p>Hatshepsut -I have been to her temple at Deir el Bahari- amazing. It is clear that you have strong financial resources so you may want to consider UCLA or Berkeley- they are letting gobs of out of staters in who can pay $45,000/year and out-of-staters don’t need the scores that in-state kids need, just the money ! Both UCLA and Berkeley have strong Middle Eastern Studies programs. I studied Arabic at UCLA, and it was a great class.</p>
I have no idea of the pay for PhDs in Anthropology (other than to suspect that with the PhD glut its hard to find a job) but at many of the higher-ranked programs PhD students get support thru a combination of grants, teaching and research assistantships, etc. For example go to [Anthropology</a> Rankings — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide](<a href=“http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/anthropology]Anthropology”>http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/anthropology) and look at the info under the “support” tab for some of the schools. Spend some time looking at the sites of some of these programs