I mentioned this in another thread, but you will likely have more research opportunities at Hopkins versus Georgetown which will help immensely with grad schools. You’ll get opportunities for internal funding for individual projects as well:
https://research.jhu.edu/hour/internal/pura/
Research is also key to winning external fellowships down the line in addition to grad school admissions:
https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/04/19/melissa-mai-hertz-nsf-graduate-research-fellow/
@stevensPR I truly want to thank you and everyone else who has continued to come back here and help me out. I just got a response from the professor:
“If your main interest in linguistics lies with language documentation and sociolinguistics then I cannot recommend our program. Noone does research in those areas and I do not anticipate any hires in those specialities.”
I guess that’s it for Hopkins. Even if I don’t end up in these areas, I don’t feel comfortable eliminating the opportunity entirely, and even if I hoped to conduct my own research I wouldn’t be able to find a faculty mentor.
I’m going to think a lot more about visualizing myself at Georgetown as well as triple-check with myself that I don’t want to stay at Stanford. Thanks so much again for all of your insight.
@lingcurious That’s good to know . Enjoy georgetown…=).
OP: I keep thinking of something you said earlier this week…" I’d like to be somewhere that actively pushes me to question privilege rather than succumb to it." I’d ask you to take one last look at JH…my oldest is going to grad school next year and JH was one of her finalists and I’ve spent a great deal of timing looking into how that (grand old) school has been evolving. The biggest impact was Mike Bloomberg’s donation to JH last year…the largest donation ever given to a college by an individual ($1.8B)…this fall will be the first class that is impacted by this astonishing gift…to quote from the release "In announcing his gift in a New York Times op-ed, Bloomberg—a 1964 Johns Hopkins graduate—identified access to college for low- and middle-income students as a significant national challenge.
“As a result, they often lose out—and so do colleges that would benefit from their talents and diverse perspectives,” Bloomberg said. “Our country loses out, too.”
Going forward, this gift is going to transform that college…you could be at the beginning of that tide .
@SouthernHope I agree 100%. I’m really excited for Hopkins and the future of the school and all the admitted students I had the opportunity to meet this month! Ironically, I just declined my offer of admission this evening. I loved the diversity of the student body, and I know everyone in the admitted class is bound to do great things. However, since the linguistics program doesn’t have or plan to expand toward the areas that interest me, I’ve decided it just isn’t the right direction for me. Hopefully the fact that I’m aware of the danger of accepting privilege as the default at Georgetown will prompt me to push back against it. It sounds like there’s still a good amount of student activism there, including the GU272 referendum this year!
Anyway, even if I won’t be profiting personally from the impact of Bloomberg’s donation, I’m so happy for the opportunities it’s creating. Definitely makes me more hopeful for what this next generation will bring.