<p>Wow that’s great, and your D sounds incredibly smart. So she must have placed in some pretty tough classes. I think I want to do strategic communications and economics as a double major. Do you know how much work she has out side of class? I don’t mean to keep asking questions, but this is what this site is for. I’m a hard worker, but I also want to have fun in college. I want to have a GPA around 3.5 and up. Do you know how much your D works to get a good GPA?</p>
<p>uniman: none of us can possibly tell you how hard you will have to work to get a 3.5 because we don’t know anything about your ability or your study habits.</p>
<p>But one thing you should know about J-School classes, especially reporting and editing classes. In those classes, you write and edit for the J-School’s media outlets–a citywide daily paper, an NBC affiliate TV station, an NPR radio station and the website. Strat Comm. majors run an ad agency. It’s like having a job in the media except you don’t get paid. You get academic credit. The most successful students spend many hours outside of class time on their media assignments.</p>
<p>I know you can’t answer that, I’m sorry. I was just curious about how much her D puts into her work and what grades she gets. That’s what I should have asked.</p>
<p>I asked my D to answer to your questions, but since she leaves for college tomorrow morning and still has internship until 4pm today + a lot of other activities with her friends, I’m not sure when she will do it 
I only can say, that:
- Her grades were all in B+/A range during sophomore year
- She and her friends almost always had 1/2 Friday + Saturday for fun
- For all other days they worked pretty hard, especially for Midterm/Tests/Finals / Project dues
I’ll post later whatever she will send to me </p>
<p>Also try to get >=33 on ACT and you will be invited to join Walter Williams scholars. It gives you some advantages as well as you will get friends with the same interests and abilities.</p>
<p>Thank you again for the information. I will not be getting a 33 on the ACT’s, I can’t get that. Also I think I may place in less difficult classes than your D, but she sounds smarter than me. I’m hoping to have a B+/A- average in college. Tell your daughter thank you.</p>
<p>My daughter said this: I know several people that are double majoring in journalism and something else, so it’s definitely do-able. If you’re passionate about both of those subjects, you should go for it. But it’s most likely going to be a lot of work. Teachers expect you to do a lot outside of the class and they assign an unreasonable amount of reading. If you’re able to get all of that done quickly, then more power to you. There are people who can balance double majors and still have fun. But there are also people who only have one major and end up having to stay up past midnight every day just to keep up with it. Just give it a try, and you can always change your mind further down the road if you realize you can’t handle it.</p>
<p>Wow thank you so much for all of the information, and thank your D for me as well. So Mizzou does sound like a challenging university and I am very much looking forward to attending. I think I will do strategic communications, but I don’t know about about doing a double major. I am still unsure about one more thing. Say I wanted to do strategic communications, as well as convergence journalism, do you know if I could do that? Like go into two different concentrations and not do a minor?</p>
<p>From D:
"I’m not entirely sure, but I don’t think you can a double major within journalism. It has to be English, or something outside of journalism. I only know of one girl who sort of combined them, but she’s a really special case, so that’s not very common. "</p>
<p>thank you so much. Is your D in the honors college? Does she take certain classes if she is in the honors school?</p>
<p>Yes, she is in the Honor college and she takes some GE Honor classes, but it’s not a lot of them especially J-classes, so probably she will not get enough credits ( 20, I believe) to graduate with Honor :-)</p>
<p>Acceptance rate doesn’t mean everything.
Pretty much everyone from my HS goes to Mizzou, and based on their experiences I can tell you that Mizzou is exactly what it says it is. It is the best in-state school for MO residents and offers a wide-range of programs for the average MO college student. It is not designed to be WashU or Berkeley (that’s what the honors college is for, and even then the HC isn’t that tough).
Most OOS Students are in the J-school, otherwise the rest of the programs are pretty much just in-state. And the best in-state usually leave the state (as is the case in every state). One of Mizzou’s problems is how little merit aid it gives (I’ve got 3 friends who were vals, had 32+ ACTs and they’ve only got 50% rides at Mizzou, especially with Bright Flight being cut down to 1500/year).</p>
<p>Mizzou is an AMAZING school, but it is designed to educate Missourians not churn out the next Samuel Clemens (with the obvious exception of the J-school, which is meant to produce the next William Randolph Hearst).</p>
<p>Enjoy Mizzou, it is my favorite MO school. Don’t worry about how easy it is to get into or what its rankings are because that will only dishearten you needlessly. Mizzou rocks
If I had had to stay in-state Mizzou would have been far and away my #1 choice.
My friends love Mizzou and I hope you do too! I spent a summer there two years ago and it was one of the best times of my life.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible to double major- my son is a junior Strat Comm and Spanish major. He did have AP credits coming into Mizzou so that helped. You can’t double major within the J-school, but you can choose elective courses within the J school to add a different concentration, such as some convergence classes. </p>
<p>As far as admission standards go, like any state university some programs are more competitive than others- at Mizzou, the J school and the Ag school (and probably some others I’m not aware of) are both demanding and tougher to get into. If you are a direct admit as a freshman into the J school (have a 29 ACT, etc) you can start classes in the J school sooner, but acceptance into your chosen sequence (Strat Comm, Convergence…) is based on your GPA at the end of your sophomore year.
My son LOVES Mizzou, Columbia, and his majors! He just started classes in Strat Comm this fall and couldn’t be more excited about them. He is plenty challenged but still has time to get involved in a number of activities on campus. He takes some classes through the Honors college, because it gives him smaller classes and direct contact with his professors- the work for those classes isn’t necessarily “more” but is more challenging, and he likes that. He’s been able to maintain above a 3.6 and added the Spanish double major last semester (he was a Spanish minor). We looked at lots of other J-schools, many ranked right up there with Mizzou, but he knew Mizzou was his place the first time he visited campus, and he has been extremely happy with his choice. And so have I- he is getting a great education and lots of wonderful opportunities to grow & develop…good luck!</p>
<p>Wow thanks for the insight. So strategic communications is harder to get into within the journalism school? So people could get into the school but get rejected by the concentrations? I thought you can choose it once you get into the school.</p>
<p>If you are directly admitted to J-schools + your GPA >=3 you will get automatically into any concentration.</p>
<p>I would like to thank everyone with all of the great advice. I will be applying to Mizzou and believe I will get in. It is my number one. I think I’m going to do strategic comm and economics as majors. I am thinking of joining a fraternity, do any of you know about greeklife at Mizzou?</p>
<p>So if you get a 24 on the ACT is it an Automatic Admission?</p>
<p>How is the pre med courses and advising at Mizzou?n does anyone know what the acceptance rate is into med school?</p>
<p>I believe that they let nearly anyone in. A friend’s daughter was drugged and raped at a 25,000 student southern university. The young man was expelled from the university. Mizzou accepted him knowing that he had been expelled and for what reason. Friend’s attorney called Mizzou Legal and Mizzou Administration and they wouldn’t discuss the situation. He’s in his second semester there now and pledging a fraternity - great socials with alcohol and girls. I have no respect for their Admissions/Legal/Administrators when it comes to the moral conduct of their admissions.</p>