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Re: advice re university

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Friday, September 8, 2000, 20:55
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). >
<snip> 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