Are you leaning toward linguistics, then, or literatures? And which languages/literatures? If you have Latin and French, it'll be harder to get into a program on Old Norse (though if you want to come to Aberystwyth you can start from scratch with Welsh *g*), though presumably not impossible. I did undergrad at Oregon and have some a good friend who went to Purdue, so might be able to help a bit with those, and look at Toronto if you haven't yet.
FWIW it might be worth it to wait a bit and beef up your resume a little bit. Maybe take a year or two to work and save money if you can, and then in the mean time, try to do something to push your writing towards your area of interest--if you can, try to get out an article or a book review or something to prove your academic writing chops. Publications can really help stand out against test scores and such like. Good luck!!!
Have you checked out Toronto? If you have decent Latin, it's a good place, and probably still relatively good value.
Also, if you want to go into this field and you're not independently wealty, please be prepared to be really poor for a long time. Be prepared to put off having a family and a permanent home until your 40s. That's easy to contemplate when your in your mid-20s, but it gets to be a bit of a grind.
tl;dr: only do this if you are absolutely convinced that it's the only thing you can do.
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Also, if you want to go into this field and you're not independently wealty, please be prepared to be really poor for a long time. Be prepared to put off having a family and a permanent home until your 40s. That's easy to contemplate when your in your mid-20s, but it gets to be a bit of a grind.
tl;dr: only do this if you are absolutely convinced that it's the only thing you can do.
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