<p>No college offers environmental studies, Italian French German Spanish Latin Japanese, creative writing, and fashion design, so I have to decide now. The end of my junior year is closing in and I need to decide what colleges to visit.</p>
<p>I started, run, organize, and do half of the dresses for an environmental fashion show in my school.</p>
<p>I have been an editor in my newspaper since my freshman year. I am a very good writer; I get compliments because of my unique style.</p>
<p>I currently take Spanish IV, college Italian, Advanced Latin (college level), and I have skipped 2 years in French so I will be in french IV next year. I have studied Japanese for a number of years, and I find it hard to give up the language during college.</p>
<p>I started and have been the president of an environmental club in my school since freshman year. I am the type of person who takes it personally if you throw crumbled up paper into a regular waste bin instead of recycling it. I also love Chemistry, but my average is only a B+, but I am taking physics and AP Biology next year.</p>
<p>Which should I choose? Or IS there some school that offers everything? HELPPP.</p>
<p>Oh, there are too universities that offer all of those majors. Try Indiana or Wisconsin or Cornell and there are probably quite a few others. Some of your fashion design interests might best be found in a School or College of Human Ecology within a larger university. This is most likely to be found in one of the state land-grant universities. One problem you may run into is that if you major in something related to “fashion design” in a human ecology program, that major is going to be located in a different academic unit than some the other fields that interest you. For example, the languages would be in a college of arts and sciences. It may be difficult to do more than one major across different academic units. The bigger issue that you face is that each of the fields that interest you will require significant commitments, and since you can’t major in everything, you will have to make some choices early on. You should try to decide which of these fields might interest you in terms in terms of academic and career interests and which are more avocational or areas that you could pursue on your own (e.g., involvement with environmental groups or activities without actually majoring in environmental studies). Since you have many interests, it may be wise to choose a univesity that offers all the fields that potentially interest you, but you have time before you commit to one or more of these fields. I can certainly imagine a number of very interesting combinations of these fields. Good luck.</p>
<p>Unless you’re specifically interested in designing, as in drawing clothes for a living, I would eliminate fashion as a prospective major or minor. Everything in the fashion industry, except design, can generally be learned on the job or through internship experience. It would benefit you to look at schools near or in large cities so that you can take up internships in the fashion industry without having to major in fashion.</p>
<p>As for majors, I personally wouldn’t get stuck on schools that offer all your majors or specific majors. Again, larger schools will have many departments where you can find classes in things like “environment” even if they don’t offer an “environment” department. For example, you might find some environment classes in the biology or geography departments.</p>
<p>Also if you’re interested in writing, consider just majoring in something that will make you or force you to write a lot. For example, major in one language, and minor in another. In most English departments, you’re bound to find some classes that have “creative writing” options or courses. They might not be majors, but the point of college is to become educated.
A great major that allows you to take foreign language classes, is Comparative Literature. For some comp lit. departments you’re required to know one or two foreign languages really well so that you’re able to read in the original language, and write in the original language.</p>