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Is anyone thinking of or definitely heading to Harvard? I might be going for Linguistics.

I might be heading to Yale for Linguistics.

I actually had the opposite experience, psycholinguist, but it was equally worthwhile. A school which was my 'second' choice essentially knocked itself off my list during the admitted students weekend. The reasons had nothing to do with anything that would have been apparent through the website, or even meeting with professors and seeing what they're working on. My interests align quite well with this department and the professors are really top-notch. The facilities (or lack thereof), funding (see previous parenthetical), social atmosphere (previous, again), and large size, however, proved to be dealbreakers. I definitely recommend visiting as many places as you can, because the visit can prove invaluable when it comes down to decision-making time.

I'm one of the other admits, GenevaLing. Yale has been one of my top choices since I started thinking about which grad schools to apply to. I have to go visit again, and hopefully sit in on a class or two and meet some of the students. In any event, though, it's a great program and I am very seriously considering it.