Definitely applying to:

1) Stanford PhD Minor in Applied Linguistics- Great school, great location, lots of choice in the program- deadline January 4th.

2) U Penn's Educational Linguistics program- this is the second closest thing to my interests, and it's in the northeast which I like- deadline December 15th

3) University of Arizona's Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program- it's in Arizona, but is unquestionably the coolest program. And I suppose it's close to Mexico- deadline February 1st.

This is why it's so hard to research schools- they all call my program a different thing. It also tends to be an interdisciplinary program between the Linguistics and Education departments, which means neither of them really has complete information.

By the way, the top secret plan (don't tell my parents) is to defer for a year and bum around Europe with Peter. I may or may not get around to telling them over Thanksgiving.