Re: advice re university

Roger Mills wrote:
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> >In terms of difficulty getting accepted, Linguistics is probably the
> >easiest. The U of T website says that the minimum average required for a
> >linguistics major is always above 70%. Not too hard. >
>
> Interesting.  U of T(exas?)  No doubt Tom Wier will weigh in there.  My
> impression is, it's one of the better depts., though that probably can be
> said of every major univ. these days.  Hawaii, FYI, is very strong on SE
> Asian and Pacific languages/linguistics, with more emphasis, I suspect, on
> the languages than on cutting-edge linguistics.
> Michigan, sad to say, no longer has a full-fledged dept., just a "Program",
> to be combined with some other major (actually, not a bad idea perhaps).
>
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I responded to the mail privatly, but I should clarify that by U of T I
meant University of Toronto. I let my Toronto-centric view get in the
way of things again. Silly me.

--
Robert