<p>This is for all of the Anthro majors--it's about time we have our own thread. </p>
<p>Things to discuss: </p>
<p>-Desired school (or school you plan to attend)
-Focus within the major (cultural, biological, archeology, etc)
-What you plan to do with your major (grad school, career)
-Favorite thing about Anthropology</p>
<p>I'll go first.</p>
<p>School: UC Santa Cruz
Focus: Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Gender Studies
Career: It's my dream to go to Berkeley for grad school...as a career I'd love to go into academia as a professor--but who knows? Law school is a potential option
Why I love Anthropology: I've always been fascinated by people and cultures, I just didn't know you could major in it! I also loved taking Sociology/Psychology classes, but I was hesitant to major in them because I love the science aspect of my biology classes....Anthropology seemed like a great combination. I also love how broad of a major Anthropology is...we have a lot of options.</p>
<p>Let's hear from the rest of you!</p>
<p>School: UCB, UCSC as a backup.
Focus: Probably archaeology mixed with classics.
Plans: Grad school, PhD, etc. I want to be a tenured professor, eventually. I’d also love classical civilization, so I’d love to do classical archaeology in the Mediterranean.
Why I love anthro: I’ve always been something of a cultural anthropologist, just by default (feeling like an outsider looking in on silly things like religion and local ritual). History and the humanities/social sciences have always captivated me, and anthro provides a wider perspective than traditional history, and because of the nature of anthro, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. As you said, we can take our degrees almost anywhere.</p>
<p>Hadrian how’s your GPA for Berkeley? I would have loved to have gone there this fall but my GPA was in no way competitive enough with their program.</p>
<p>3.95, so I think I’ve got 50/50 chances or so. My application was as a history major, actually (I put history/anthro or anthro/history on all the schools that allowed alts). I’m not really expecting to get it, and UCSC seems like it’ll be great, anyway.</p>
<p>A 3.95 is very competitive–it seems like you have a great shot. I wouldn’t be too concerned.</p>
<p>What colleges at UCSC are you going to apply to? If I don’t get into Berkeley, I’ll probably go c19-Kresge-Stevenson.</p>
<p>My top 3 are: Porter, Kresge, and Cowell.</p>
<p>Apparently transfer students can’t be in Porter, so I’ll probably be in Kresge.</p>
<p>Anthro homies woot woot.</p>
<p>School: University of California at Los Angeles or University of California Berkeley…don’t know.
Focus: Anthropology with concentration in Archaeology.
Career: I too would adore to go into academia. I am already studying for the GRE. lol
Why I love Anthropology:
I love people, I wish to understand them better and to communicate them. I want every person I come into contact with to feel that they are the most fascinating thing to me because they are. I want to learn how to be a better Global citizen and Anthropology gives me the tools to learn how to interact with everyone despite being from totally different worlds.</p>
<p>Yes! An anthropology thread!</p>
<p>-Desired school: UCLA.
-Focus within the major: Cultural, Applied
-What you plan to do with your major: I’d like to work for AmeriCorps for a year or two after I graduate, and continue on to graduate school.
-Favorite thing about Anthropology: It looks at every aspect of what it means to be human- Past, present, and future. Is there anything more fascinating than mankind?</p>
<p>@jane–What’s the GRE???</p>
<p>@evan–What are the AmeriCorps??</p>
<p>I’m so curious</p>
<p>Ha ha ha. “The AmeriCorps.” Makes it sound like a team of super heroes. Although, I guess that is sort of what we were!</p>
<p>After high school, I served a year with the AmeriCorps nonprofit organization City Year in Los Angeles. AmeriCorps is a government program that supports various nonprofits.</p>
<p>ooooo Evan baby AmeriCorps? aww i have been thinking about doing that! 
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<p>GRE is the Graduate Record Examination, it is a standardized test that Graduate schools look at when determining your admittance into their programs.</p>
<p>That’s fascinating, another benefit of Anthropology. </p>
<p>I’ve also been interested in social work–who knows where I’ll take my degree. I’m excited to take the classes for Anthro!</p>
<p>I just shed a single tear, Never thought I’d see a thread just for my major :')</p>
<p>I want to go to UC Davis, UC Berkeley, or UCLA
Cultural Anthropology with a Medical Concentration
Med School, or Phd Researcher, can’t quite decide yet :D. I may also try to double major with either Psychology or Biology, not sure there either 
Ability to look at a topic from more than one perspective. Especially a topic like medicine - there is way too much at stake in that field to blindly allow one or two country’s ideas of how the sick should be treated to dominate. Plus I love travelling, I DEFINITELY plan to do my fair share of time as a barefoot anthropologist, if you know what I mean :)</p>
<p>AmeriCorps is great! I have an education award of nearly $5,000 because of my service! It’s great!</p>
<p>really! is should stop thinking about and just do it. i am free this summer so i am def gonna check that out.</p>
<p>Oh, it was a 10 month program. ha ha.</p>
<p>@evan so did you quit school for that year? Or is it very little hours per week?</p>
<p>Ha ha ha. I did it after high school. Full time. After 10 months, I had over 2,000 hours of community service. Looks great for college apps!</p>
<p>Wow…that’s awesome. I don’t even have over 100 community service hours. So you basically took that year off?? Smart man! Was it pretty fun? did it involve traveling?</p>