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Oh, please. I laughed long and hard at the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index when UCSD didn’t make the top 2 for oceanography (instead a ludicrous #9). I laughed even harder when it had Cincinnati and CUNY above Berkeley and Michigan for Classics. As a measure of department quality, those rankings are useless.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s pretty much irrelevant. In the most recent version of the FSPI (2007), Hopkins didn’t make the top 10 for art history.</p>
<p>(Don’t get me wrong – Hopkins is a great school, and the art history program is certainly strong. I just took issue with the claim that it deserved to be ranked #1. Hopkins would definitely be a much better fit for the OP than Georgetown! :eek:)</p>
<p>I made most of these suggestions to my friend – she especially liked Williams and Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Any more suggestions?</p>
<p>Hey, whoa, no need to throw my Alma Mater under the bus hehe. But I agree, for Art History, maybe Johns Hopkins is best. But consider Georgetown!</p>
<p>So she already has 3 reach schools (Brown/RISD, Hopkins/MICA, Williams).
Presumably she wants some matches and safeties too?</p>
<p>Can you tell us more about her interest in art? What media?</p>
<p>Any particular career goals?</p>
<p>Williams and Johns Hopkins, while both academically excellent schools, are on opposite poles in personality and environment. If she’s considering small LACs then I’d suggest Wesleyan, Skidmore, Hamilton.</p>
<p>It’s not so easy for Brown students to schedule RISD studio classes, especially for someone who’s already taking a lot of science labs. Brown, itself, has a very good studio art program, though, so it may not be an issue.</p>
<p>Tufts also has a joint program with the Boston Museum of Fine Art School. Again, the logistics can be complicated.</p>
<p>If she is interested in marine biology, going to a coastal school with a top notch program would probably be the best choice. However, for most biological professions (marine biology especially), you have to have a graduate degree in order to find a job doing research and studies. If she’s interested maybe more on the education side, she could probably get away with having only a bachelor’s.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this would be too far away, but if she is really set on marine biology, she should look at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida or Coastal Carolina University near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Both have rigorous, nationally recognized marine science programs while the general student body may not be the highest academically.</p>
<p>This is a five year old thread.</p>