<p>Hi, I recently have started to narrow my college search down to a few schools and I was wondering if anyone had some opinions that could help me out. My ultimate goal is to pursue a career in journalism...these are some of the schools I am looking at:
Swarthmore College
Haverford College
Boston College
Wake Forest University
Villanova University</p>
<p>I would really love to go to a small LAC like Swarthmore or Haverford but I was wondering if it would hurt me that these schools do not offers majors in journalism/communications. If I attended one dk these schools I would double major in English (at Swarthmore it would be English Lit) and political science. Will not majoring in journalism hurt me when applying to graduate school for journalism or looking for jobs?</p>
<p>Sorry for reposting those links. When I tried posting this morning, the post was pending approval–CC must frown upon links-only posts. I added a little bit of text and the post took, but a moderator must have come by and approved the other two–oops!</p>
<p>@Ranza123 is very correct about Hamilton as a writing-intensive school. As an aspiring writer myself, Hamilton made my shortlist of colleges to apply to. However, it did not make my short-shortlist: the colleges where my will to apply overcame my laziness.</p>
<p>Swat and Haverford are good schools for getting writing experience, esp if you major in English. I was a writing faculty instructor at one of them a long time ago. Academic writing is different from journalistic writing, so do participate with the school newspapers.</p>
<p>@ranza123 I’ve looked into Hamilton as well, I visited campus and I absolutely loved it. Unfortunately because of other factors I do not think the school is the right fit. Are the English programs at Swarthmore and Haverford well respected? I can imagine they are as well</p>
<p>I’d look at the quality of the school newspapers. My brother got a journalism job after he graduated from college simply based on having been an editor of his school paper. </p>