<p>Gpa: 3.7
Sat: 2000 (predicted)
EC's: boy scouts, karate, business and finance club, model u.n., volunteer at local hospital
I'm a male from new york if tht makes a difference.
I hope to study history and then pursue a phd in history.</p>
<p>You’ll get helpful responses if you also make clear your preferences for size of student body, region, urban/suburban/rural, campus culture, and your financial aid need.</p>
<p>SUNY Geneseo, University of Minnesota - Morris, and Truman State are obvious schools to look at if low list price is desired.</p>
<p>Tufts. Go to tufts.</p>
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I don’t often place a lot of importance on what people plan to study, but I’ll make an exception in this instance. MANY colleges have great history programs and can give you the history courses you’ll need for graduate school, but most LACs are considerably weaker when it comes to offering languages. There are some decidedly mediocre universities that offer a lot more languages than even Middlebury, arguably the best LAC for languages. </p>
<p>PhD programs in history often use languages as a first cut when it comes to looking at applications, so it would be helpful to know if you’re particularly interested in a specific subfield of history. If you’re interested in something that requires no or few languages (e.g. American history) or a field that requires only one or two easily found languages (e.g. Jewish or Russian history), you have lots of options. If you’re interested in something that requires more specialized languages (e.g. Turkish/Ottoman history or South Asian history), your options will be much more limited, and you might even be better off at a university.</p>
<p>@warblersrule I’m interested in medieval and renaissance studies, and most phd programs for that require french, german, and sometimes italian. I already speak italian fluently and i’m proficient in latin (even though that won’t help much lol).
@snarlatron I’m looking to study in a traditional college campus in new england. I won’t NEED financial aid, but it would definitly help.</p>
<p>@diabete do i have any shot at tufts? I thought it was relatively hard to get into (>25% acceptance rate) but i’m not quite sure.</p>
<p>Acceptance at Tufts last year was ~21%.</p>
<p>Connecticut College (CT)
Wheaton College (MA) </p>
<p>In your home state of New York: </p>
<p>Hobart & William Smith
St. Lawrence University
Skidmore College </p>
<p>Best of luck in your college search!</p>
<p>Tufts is a university and it does not have a strong liberal arts program. Boston College has a strong liberal arts program but is also a university.</p>
<p>You should take a look at the LAC rankings, find ones in the 15-45 range that are in the part of the country you’d like to live (best are typically in the northeast), and start narrowing the list down based on preference. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Tufts is a small university and DOES have a strong liberal arts program.</p>
<p>Being male is very helpful at many small LACs. i second Connecticut College- also has a medieval studies program which bodes well with your interests. Also Skidmore and Vassar.</p>
<p>Something else to note about history is that it is a very broad subject; it is possible at some schools for two history majors to graduate having had only one history course in common (e.g. Berkeley, where the common history course is a research methods seminar, while the students otherwise take completely disjoint sets of other history courses).</p>
<p>So make sure, from faculty rosters and course listings, that each college’s history department has sufficient depth in the areas of history that you are most interested in.</p>
<p>Evergreen State College in Washinton. It’s fairly big, but still a liberal arts school.</p>
<p>Hamilton, Vassar, Lafayette, Frankin and Marshall, Trinity, Union, Skidmore, Conn College, SUNY Geneseo,</p>