<p>hey guys. I'm a junior right now and I'm looking for a couple safety schools to add to my list.</p>
<p>my number one choice right now is Cornell by far (I've visited twice and love it) and my #2 choice is UPenn (haven't visited, but will probably do so).</p>
<p>i'm interested in anthropology/archeology/possibly forensic anthropology.
i'm looking for selective schools, not too small, but not absolutely huge either.
need-blind admissions are a must (does anyone actually not do those?)</p>
<p>also, needs to be vegetarian-friendly, no religious affiliation, nice campus (not too urban but not in the middle of absolutely nowhere either), good ultimate frisbee teams <<but those last criteria are ones i can check on myself.</p>
<p>thanks for your help!!
if you need more criteria, just let me know.</p>
<p>p.s. i tried those search things on collegeboard and such and found them very unhelpful. perhaps i'm just too picky :-P</p>
<p>oh yeah, and i'm looking for a school in the northeast.</p>
<p>lol well pretty much every liberal arts school offers anthropology. i wish there was a way to find some of the better programs, but so far google is just not cooperating...</p>
<p>thanks for your help though :)</p>
<p>Have you thought about Dartmouth??</p>
<p>i looked at it, but it just didn't seem right for me...a little too small, a little too middle-of-nowhere, from what i've heard. not to mention i type it wrong every time i try.</p>
<p>Michigan, Arizona, Cal San Diego, Florida, Texas, NYU<br>
Illinois, Cal Davis are all top 20 in anthropology and good match/safeties.</p>
<p>plus, i'm mostly looking for safety schools in case i get shot down by cornell (hopefully not with my stats, but you never know..:-/)</p>
<p>alright, well then i'll look at mich and nyu as they're the only ones out of those in the NE.<br>
when you say top 20 in anthro...where are you getting your top 20?</p>
<p>When you look at anthropology departments, make sure they have a biological anthropology (sometimes called physical anthropology) program, which fits your forensic interests. Many programs focus only on cultural anthropology, which would be too narrow for your varied interests. I'd suggest Duke, Emory, Michigan, and Wesleyan as good matches. Beloit, GWU, and Drew might be good safeties. All of these are strong in archaeology and bio anth.</p>
<p>warblers, right, i've been making sure of that. </p>
<p>but, no way i want to go to duke, i have some weird thing against it. emory's in atlanta, so that's a little too south for me...I really don't want to go any further south than PA/DC/Del climate and distance-wise. </p>
<p>looks like people are mentioning mich. <em>checks it out</em></p>
<p>A study done by a Texas A&M professor like 10 years ago. Its a great indicator for program strength.</p>
<p>1 Michigan<br>
2 Chicago<br>
3 Cal Berkeley<br>
4 Harvard<br>
5 Arizona<br>
6 Penn<br>
7 Stanford<br>
8 Yale<br>
9 UCLA<br>
10 Cal San Diego<br>
11 Florida<br>
12 Texas<br>
13 NYU<br>
14 Illinois<br>
15 Cal Davis<br>
16 Columbia<br>
17 Washington (St. Louis)<br>
18 Wisconsin<br>
19 Duke<br>
20 Cal Santa Barbara</p>
<p>alrighty thanks</p>
<p>but i suppose a lot can change in ten years, no?</p>
<p>and would you say that going to cornell would be a bad idea for anthro because it's not in the top 20 of that list?</p>
<p>cornell will get name recognition no matter what field you want to go into.
if you like cornell the best, go to cornell if you get in.</p>
<p>yay, muchas gracias! thanks for your help.</p>
<p>anyone else have any input?</p>
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A study done by a Texas A&M professor like 10 years ago.
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Just wanted to correct this. These are graduate program rankings done by the National Research Council (NRC), part of the National Science Foundation. They are located on the TAMU website (also at <a href="http://www.phds.org%5B/url%5D">www.phds.org</a>) because a stats professor analyzed the rankings. I don't think the rankings have changed that much, but new (and much improved) NRC rankings are slated to be published in 2007. In any case, they are not entirely relevant to undergrad studies, although they are useful.</p>