<p>Suggest you should check whether all these schools actually have much in the way of linguistics, if that's really what you're interested in studying.</p>
<p>I'm not 100% sure I'll major in linguistics, because it's impossible to commit to something having never taken a course in the field...unfortunately, you don't have the opportunity to figure these things out in high school.
I do know I'm particurally interested in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
I've done research about most of the schools...and most offer either a linguistics major, or the possibility to create your own major. If they don't have a linguistics major, they have a Cognitive Science major which includes a sampling of courses in language study.</p>
<p>I'll probably apply as Classics/Lit, though...</p>