<p>Are you serious? The stat is absolutely perfect to me. With this stat, if you cannot get accepting from any school, I do not want to study anymore.</p>
<p>Your a spectacular canidate. I’m positive you’ll get into at least 3 ivy league schools. But UChicago really favors strong essays, so you’ll have to nail those. I hope you have at least one safety, just in case. Good Luck :)</p>
<p>Thanks man. I have Boston University as a safety but I didn’t mention it. Thanks again.</p>
<p>bump 10char.</p>
<p>I don’t know if MIT has your major: [FL&L</a> @ MIT](<a href=“Home | MIT Global Languages”>Home | MIT Global Languages) It says that it doesn’t offer advanced instruction in Portuguese…but it is a new program so maybe it’s on the way there? And just hasn’t started offering advanced instruction yet? If you’ve already researched possible majors at MIT carefully, good for you; if you haven’t, I would.</p>
<p>They also have no classics department, by the way, if you intended to continue taking courses in Latin.</p>
<p>Yeah, but the OP could probably take some classes at Harvard/Wellesley (wait, the OP is male; only Harvard then).</p>
<p>Anyway. You’re as strong a candidate as any. Write good essays and stop panicking because it looks silly with your stats.</p>
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<li>I wouldn’t want to wait until I was a sophomore to take Latin again. Freshman cannot cross-register. Not that big a deal though.</li>
<li>I /really/ would not want to depend on Harvard for my major. (Which might not be true, if MIT is planning an expansion to its Portuguese program.)</li>
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<p>It’s definitely not an unconquerable obstacle, but I still think it’s a valid concern + thing that needs to be researched.</p>
<p>Haha guys calm down. I would be thrilled to get into either program but from what I hear, MIT doesn’t really care about accepting students who aren’t interested in engineering first and then another concentration (such as languages or economics) secon, and since I don’t have any original scientific research… 
So I don’t think it is worth submitting an application to MIT (for me). Do you guys think Brown would be a viable option (considering they have a Portuguese and Brazilian Studies major)?</p>
<p>Oh honey I’m pretty sure they don’t just take students who have done engineering, science, or math already. If you have the aptitude for it and would like to do it and Portuguese as a secondary, they might even be like “yesss we will strengthen this department by taking this student!” I’m /pretty/ sure, although not entirely, that one of the girls from my school who got into MIT had a strong science courseload and test scores, but had no science ECs, rather having all her ECs in painting/maybe some music as well. If you could find a way to ask your regional representative (at a college fair or something) or on your visit, they might reassure you. Or not, and I’m wrong and you shouldn’t go to MIT. I’m sorry for my tone last post, but I’ve always been urging research vs. writing-colleges-off-or-on-based-on-little-information.
I’m pretty sure a lot of strong colleges do have Portuguese programs. The Brazilian studies may mean it’s more serious than most. I wouldn’t necessarily add Brown to my application list /just/ for that reason? If you otherwise like it, sure, of course.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help Lirazel. It really is much appreciated 
I am very good at science but I’m just not sure whether or not I would like to go to a school that is so engineering focused. And your tone was fine, I completely agree about researching colleges. I saw that they have good non-engineering programs but when I spoke with a college consultant who knows a lot about MIT (her sons both went there), she said that my chances are a lot lower having not done any independent science research. And concerning Brown, the Portuguese is only one factor in adding it to my list. I’m just trying to get into colleges as of now and after accepted (to hopefully a few ), I will decide which I like best. I’m not positive that I want to major in Portuguese but for now it seems that way. I may end up doing economics so I’m looking for schools that have a good languages department but also a good economics program. Btw, have you enrolled at Harvard for the next year?</p>
<p>Hello fellow prospective linguistics major I think you have a great shot at getting into any of those colleges, but then again I may be biased because my stats are quite similar to yours (we even have the same SAT score and the same Common App essay topic – only I did immersion in French). 
At this point the best thing is to just work on your essays and hope for the best – and make sure you research schools that fit your interests! Though I want to double major in linguistics and computer science, I’m also on the lookout for colleges that have great language departments. </p>
<p>BTW, I don’t think you should be discouraged from applying to MIT. The fact that you are interested in linguistics alone is unique; plus, even if you get rejected, you have absolutely nothing to lose. You seem like a cool guy If we end up going to the same school, we should probably hang out sometime!</p>
<p>Haha dude. You interested in computational linguistics? That stuff is awesome as proven by NACLO. If it’s worth anything, I know that there is an awesome professor at UPenn named Mitch Marcus who does this kind of stuff and he is awesome. So if you are interested in that kind of stuf, definitely check this prof out. Good luck at where you are applying and hopefully we’ll meet again in the future! :)</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I’ve checked out the NACLO page. Too bad I didn’t hear about it until junior year was almost over. I missed the Open Round by about a month lol. </p>
<p>Thanks; good luck to you too! Oh, and I’m a girl, just so you know :D</p>
<p>Yeah I realized that. I sorta assume everyone is a guy. so edit: dudette. What schools are you looking into?</p>
<p>My list as of right now contains only 6 schools (Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UBC), and if I get into Stanford SCEA I won’t bother applying to UBC. lol. I really don’t understand the point in applying to 15+ schools when I know I’m not going to be a good fit at all of them; plus, I want a less stressful senior year in terms of academics because I’ll have other family responsibilities </p>
<p>Out of curiosity, how did you end up learning all the languages you know?</p>
<p>Yeah I am probably only going to apply to 8 or so but they’re all on the east coast lol. And concerning languages, my father speaks 7-9 languages because he studied abroad and was a merchant marine, which led to a lot of travel. And my mother is foreign-born, so… I have been in contact with many different languages since I was young so its sort of been second nature to me to learn a lot How about you? How did you get to know so many cool languages lol?</p>
<p>I really wish I was as fortunate as you language wise None of my family members speak anything besides English and Chinese, and although I was raised bilingual, I had to make my own opportunities for the others. When I was in 3rd grade, I studied abroad for a year at a public elementary school in Montreal, where everything was taught in French, and also spent 2 weeks in France in an immersion program during my freshman year. Spanish I did mainly through taking courses in middle school and high school, self teaching, and coming frequently into contact with native speakers. (I’ll also be living in SoCal this upcoming year, so perhaps that might count as another immersion experience…? ;)) Then for German, I only just returned from 3 weeks in an intensive language program in Germany that I enrolled myself in for this summer. Although I don’t think I can call myself fluent yet, my German has vastly improved and I can carry on conversations. But besides English and Chinese, my family can’t do anything to help me. I have to maintain all my languages on my own, which can sometimes prove to be a very difficult task. But at least they’re interesting and fun I’m now trying to pick up Japanese as language #6, since it is very relevant to the field of computer science. Right now, though, all I know are the vowels (in hiragana) – あいうえお – so hopefully during senior year I’ll be able to make more progress :D</p>
<p>BTW, a million apologies for hijacking this thread!! I just always get really excited whenever I meet other people who are just as interested in languages as I am, lol. :p</p>
<p>Haha. No worries about hijacking my thread, I don’t care But that is quite impressive that you have essentially learned all of these languages on your own. I tip my hat to you :)</p>
<p>MIT does offer courses in Latin, by the way. It starts with Wheelock’s for two semesters. Then I think there are a few advanced lit courses, which you may have already done. They do have ancient history classes though.</p>