What colleges have good East Asian Studies Programs that I have a good chance of getting into?
November 20, 2009 by
Filed under Asian Programming
I am going into my senior year at high school and I want to major in Chinese/ East Asian Studies and also do something in business or international studies. Since Chinese is my main focus for applying to schools, I need to find a couple of good schools to apply to that I have a fair chance of getting in to.
As for what is going on my application: My SAT scores were 660 Reading 680 Math and 750 Writing but I am planning to take it again and hope to move math and reading up to a 700 so a total score of 215. My grades have been consistent with an average of about 93 Freshman Sophomore and Junior year and I go to a competitive catholic scholarship high school and all of my classes are pretty much AP. I have plenty of community service at school and outside of school .I am very involved with piano and alto saxophone at school and at home in concerts, recitals, and I have been teaching music theory and piano classes as well as individual lessons. I am also trying out for varsity soccer this year and hope to be on the team for senior year.
The schools I am thinking about so far are Middlebury, Georgetown, and Wesleyan but I think those are going to be my reach schools. As for the schools I think I could get into, I only have American University. Other ideas?
NYU
Oberlin
Hunter College
Rutgers
Columbia
The best college by far, that offers the best East Asian program in the US would have to be University of Hawaii – Manoa.
At UHM, they offer many courses from Mardarin/Taiwanese/Catonese, Chinese Poetry, 20th Century Chinese Literature, to so much more.
Chinese courses:
http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/chn.htm
East Asian courses:
http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/eall.htm
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Degrees in Chinese:
http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/chn/index.htm
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There are undergraduate business programs are:
Accounting
Finance
Human Resource Management
Management
Management Information Systems
Marketing
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UHM also offers the PAMI program in which during the summer you go to many Asian countries and get a first hands experience in the Asian business world.
http://shidler.hawaii.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=916
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University of Hawaii – Manoa is relatively easy to get into. It’s only based on grades and SAT score. The minimum in 510/510/510. So you could automatically get into in. But you cannot compare UHM’s Asian studies to other colleges. I’ve looked at every college in the US that offers Asian studies or East Asian studies and Manoa is the best program wise.
Best of luck and if you have any questions feel free to ask! I’ve done a lot of research on UHM as I want to doan East Asian degree concentrated on Korean (a Korean major) with a Chinese minor. ^_^