<p>10 days until May 1... and I'm still stuck on my decision. I am considering Georgetown and Penn, and I'm leaning towards Georgetown, but I keep having doubts that Georgetown academics aren't as great as Penn. I ask teachers for help and, well, they don't really help. Anyway, I plan to major in linguistics, maybe neurolinguistics, so any suggestions would be most appreciated.</p>
<p>i think academically u will recieve that same quality education. I got waitlisted at penn and just opted to just choose gtown because they are both great. it's all up to how you feel tho</p>
<p>Eugh, I live in a suburb of Philadelphia, my dad teaches at Penn, and Penn is the holy grail of everyone around here, and the place is <em>weird</em>. It's got this huge population of incredibly bizarre, boring people. I think the fast that is rose to popularity so quickly *<strong><em>ed it up in some ways...I took some classes there, and Jesus, they were so *</em></strong>ing easy. Maybe all intro classes are insanely easy, but the kids just seemed...not quite there. Really big into studying, really not so big into actually LEARNING and what-have-you.</p>
<p>Wow. I've never heard that one before ^</p>
<p>Penn is much better than Georgetown in linguistics.</p>
<p>I know Penn has a very good graduate-level linguistics department, but that's because they pour lots of money into research at the undergrad level, it's the teaching that's important, so basically the better teachers you have and the more motivated your peers, the better. On that level, it's really hard to gauge if you haven't actually BEEN THROUGH both programs (which presumably nobody actually has).</p>
<p>Obviously linguistics and languages are two very distinct things, but Georgetown does have a very good Faculty of Languages, whereas Penn's language offerings don't have a separate undergrad track to them.</p>
<p>Georgetown has one of the best linguistics departments. I believe two of our faculty collaborate extensively with Noam Chomsky: Deborah Tannen and David Lightfoot. The former is also famous for revolutionary advancements in gender-based studies of language.</p>
<p>Has anyone actually been in FLL and can describe the academia?</p>
<p>I swear... One day I lean towards Georgetown, the next towards Penn. I never knew choosing a college could be this difficult x)</p>
<p>I totally know what you mean tofu... I'm in the same situation stuck between Dartmouth and Georgtetown. 6 more days!</p>
<p>i have the same decision as you, tofu, and im deciding on penn. my sister is a sophmore there right now, and while its true that a lot of the people are very preprofessional and more interested in grades than actually learning, you'll get some of that wherever you go. i dont think its true that all the kids are boring, though, as it has over 9,000 undergrads...im sure you could find evey type of person there. i decided on penn because they give you more flexibility, and they offer some languages i have an interest in that georgetown does not offer (like hindi). georgetown has great academics, just as good if not better than penn's. what it comes down to is what your gut is telling you to do...</p>