<p>I already know middlebury</p>
<p>What about (do they have good language programs)
NYU
Boston U
U of Chicago
Colgate</p>
<p>Any school you know of with good language programs, im open for any and every suggestion.</p>
<p>Princeton, Harvard, and Yale all stand out in my mind. Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford are all very good options on the West Coast. I'd also suggest Columbia and Michigan.</p>
<p>Oddly enough though, the best trained Japanese speakers I've met have mostly come from UC Davis. :p</p>
<p>i just want to get out of california</p>
<p>Well, you did initially say
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<p>Sheesh.... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Anyway, all of the big names are good options, as well as the LACs. I tend to find, at least in personal experience, that LACs have excellent language programs.</p>
<p>sorry
lemme rephrase that
Im open to any suggestions outside of california.</p>
<p>Im tired of it here and want to live somewhere with true seasons (snow in the winter)</p>
<p>i think emory's language programs are decent...
georgetown's faculty of language and linguistics looks quite impressive as well (i've applied EA to it)</p>
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Im tired of it here and want to live somewhere with true seasons (snow in the winter)
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<p>Sheesh.... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>:p (just the opinion of someone who's experienced the so-called "seasons.")</p>
<p>i'd look at some of the bigger school. Maybe UCB, UCLA, Cornell, Penn, etc. These schools typically offer more languages and more sheer language courses</p>
<p>i do have experience in winters ive spent in other parts of the US.</p>
<p>Yeah yeah yeah. Just wait until you have a final that day and you have to get up and walk through snow and sleet. Ugh.</p>
<p>Or better yet, fire alarms at 3 AM in winter. :(</p>
<p>Don't Dartmouth and Middlebury have the top language programs? And doesn't Colgate supposedly have great study abroad options (which helps for language majors)?</p>
<p>hey man
i have my preferences.</p>
<p>anyway
yeah i think colgate is supposed to have amazing study abroad programs</p>
<p>and I think middlebury is the best language programs
not sure about dartmouth though</p>
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hey man
i have my preferences.
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<p>Sure. That doesn't mean I can't tease you and poke you incessantly for them. :D</p>
<p>Check out Brown and Dartmouth for sure. Remember, it's not all that important that a language program have breadth (e.g. tons of languages.) It's more important that it have depth. It's great for a program to offer 500 languages, but if you can't take past the second year, it's not really worth it to you.</p>
<p>i dont find any possibility of me getting accepted into dartmouth or brown.
for me and my stats they might be too big of a reach.</p>
<p>My stats are closer to that of Colgate acceptees, and NYU acceptees.
My gpa is a 3.5 uw (slightly low for acceptance)
but my act is 33(above both of their 75th percentile)
I slacked off a ton freshmen and sophomore year.</p>
<p>The only amazing reach schools of mine i remotely stand a chance for at all are maybe Northwestern, and University of chicago (i just got to have the best essays theyve ever seen)</p>
<p>But i will apply to (as reaches go)
Northwestern
Middlebury
University of chicago
vassar (more of a slight reach for me)</p>
<p>and thats about it
maybe a few more</p>
<p>BIGTWIX,</p>
<p>Those are good schools.</p>
<p>My experience with language education (and believe me, I've been involved with it for a long time now) is that immersion always beats instruction. If you're really intent on learning a language fluently (like really really fluently), then look at schools with good study abroad programs and consider a year in a country where your language is used.</p>
<p>But some schools, namely some LACs, will only be able to offer a handful of languages total. Don't ignore breadth unless you know almost for certain which language(s) you want.</p>
<p>This is true. But looking at the language programs at even small, out-of-the-way, LACs, I find that the core languages are usually offered.</p>
<p>I just tend to find that having !Kung offered doesn't do 99% of students much good. Not only that, it's likely to only have a few classes offered anyway.</p>
<p>yeah i know immersion is the best</p>
<p>I want to take a year abroad in japan.
And then maybe travel in summer to places like spain and italy</p>
<p>I plan on taking japanese, spanish, italian. and at least one more language in college
probably mandarin, but maybe not.</p>
<p>and yeah breadth is important in some cases, cause i do realized that many LAC'sdont always offer every level of class in a certain language, but since there are more professors at larger schools, the chances of ur class being avaiable is way better.</p>
<p>I will be applyin ED to NYU next year</p>
<p>BIGTWIX,</p>
<p>I can off a lot of insight into learning Japanese and Chinese (I've done both.) </p>
<p>Feel free to PM or IM me.</p>