<p>Our daughter has been accepted to four great schools and the decision just became more difficult! She is entering "undeclared" but will be pursuing Broadcast Journalism with a possible minor in Voice. Any comments, suggestions or advice???</p>
<p>Seems like four very distinct choices.<br>
How much will each cost you?
Does she prefer Texas or the northeast? How big does she want to go? How have her interactions with faculty and students been at each place?</p>
<p>My advice is visit all of the schools if you haven’t. The larger schools will certainly have bigger classes; Boston will certainly afford different types of opportunities than Fort Worth, but she will really need to look closely at the department in each and consider things like size of classes, internship opportunities, scholarship, whether sororities/frats are important or distasteful to her (big Greek scene at the two Texas schools), whether she wants to be at a smaller school in Texas (TCU & SMU) or a larger school in the northeast.
Where are you from? Will she be comfortable with the type of student body that attends that school? For her minor, all four have excellent music programs, but who are the voice teachers at each? What are the performance and ensemble opportunities for non-majors?
Everyone is different - my music major D looked at SMU but wanted a different type of college experience than they offered.
My outsider impressions (which are probably worthless!):
BU - large school in a large northeast city in a big college town
Syracuse - large school in an older upstate NY city; alums I have met from here are very passionate about it
SMU - smaller school in a big Texas city (Dallas); I’ve always heard it stereotyped as having a student population that is predominantly white, wealthy and conservative, but they seem to be making a push for diversity
TCU - see above (Fort Worth), but alums also seem very passionate about this school</p>
<p>I agree that you need to visit the schools to make the decision. I don’t know enough about
the Texas schools to comment, but I have visited BU and Syracuse, and my daughter will attend the Com school at BU.</p>
<p>Syracuse and BU both have excellent communication programs. I think that the Boston location is preferable for internships, but Newshouse students get excellent summer internships. Syracuse seemd to have a lot of successful grads in broadcast journalism also. Overall, I think that the academics would be a match.</p>
<p>My daughter much preferred Boston to the Syracuse location. Boston is a beautiful,exciting city full of college students. Syracuse was not very impressive and tends to have very gray weather. Syracuse has better greek life and sports excitement. It depends on what your daughter prefers.</p>
<p>Good luck. It’s a tough decision. If she can’t decide, I would go with the closer, less expensive option.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. We have indeed visited all the schools and there are characteristics in each school that are attractive. That is why this has been so difficult for our D. Today we visited the Syracuse reception for accepted students and their presentation made them even more appealing. In addition our D has been researching the departments in each school and making her comparisons, plus answering all the questions regarding size, location and opportunities that you all have already mentioned. Our D will be moving from Southern CA and is looking forward to the change and challenge. Your comments and thoughts are very helpful. Thank you and keep them coming.</p>
<p>did you guys ever choose a place?</p>