<p>While these don’t meet all of your preferences, I believe Stanford, NYU, and Johns Hopkins have strong programs. You might check them out, if you haven’t already.</p>
<p>Fairly well off in AK isn’t fairly well of in NYC. Have you run the net price calculators and gotten a firm number form your parents about what they will contribute? If not, do so.</p>
<p>You are aware that there are departments within the federal government that are always looking for students who are good with languages. Among our needs are fluent speakers to teach our personnel going overseas. These agencies, State and DoD come readily to mind, of course, are often interested in supporting their education.</p>
<p>If you could bump up that SAT and if you interview well, Georgetown probably would like to have you.</p>
<p>Consider University of Hong Kong, which has Chinese studies, is located abroad in a somewhat Chinese environment, and costs significantly less for international students than the schools you list if you are well off enough to receive little or no financial aid.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the best Chinese abroad program be one where you lived and studied in a Chinese university for a semester or year? I know the government in China has poured money into improving the study abroad experience so as to get more non Chinese fluent in Mandarin. </p>
<p>U Rhode Island and Indiana U both host Chinese flagships. </p>
<p>The best language study abroad program for Chinese is this one-- <a href=“IUP - CHINESE CENTER at TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY”>IUP - CHINESE CENTER at TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY; which is administered out of UC Berkeley but open to anyone. You don’t need to find a school that runs its own program in China–(though NYU , Princeton, Yale Hopkins and Stanford do).</p>
<p>Most state flagships have good Chinese Studies programs–In addition to those mentioned above, look at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Indiana University all have good Chinese studies… Look at the FALCON program at Cornell. For an LAC, look at Oberlin.and the Oberlin shansi program. </p>
<p>Well, if you keep going east from the Mississippi (with appropriate latitude adjustments), you can get anywhere in the world, including Hong Kong.</p>
<p>To learn Chinese well, you must live, breath and schooling in a Chinese speaking environment. So, you should be in China or Taiwan to get the best out of it.</p>
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