<p>With less than a week before May 1, I'm still pretty torn about my college decision. I went into the application process thinking I'd like to be a journalist. I've done journalism-related extracurriculars all through high school and really enjoyed those. I was planning on majoring in journalism, and my dream job would be producing a TV show or something of the sort. Now, though, I'm totally stuck in picking between Northwestern's Medill, NYU, and Georgetown. The only real fault I can find in Georgetown is their lack of a strong journalism curriculum. They want half as much money as NYU and Northwestern, and their academics seem top-notch. My current situation seems, to me, to suggest three options: a) take Georgetown's sizable scholarship, save my family financial pain, and get a real major and matriculate into journalism if it still exists in four years b) take G'town's scholarship as an omen, say goodbye to journalism, and start working on an SFS degree, or c) stick with a more costly, probably lower-paying high school dream job and go to NYU or Northwestern.</p>
<p>Additionally, I could go to Richmond for even cheaper, but I don't think I'd fit in there. </p>
<p>Pardon the jumbled-ness.... it's a reflection of how I feel. Any input would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Robert Bartlett, Kate Snow, Jamie Gangel, Dan Henninger, Maria Shriver, Bob Colacello. The list goes on and on at every major journalistic outlet in America. Georgetown is awesome in producing journalists.</p>
<p>gelato, i had almost the same fork in the road! i turned down medill and the gw political communication program for georgetown. i changed my mind and decided that though i do want to be a journalist, i don’t want to go to journalism school. i decided i’d be a better asset to a news organization if i were more knowledgeable in something specific like government, history, economics, SFS regional studies, etc. than if i actually studied journalism. and while in dc, i could get all kinds of amazing internships and work experience on my own. it does feel riskier because it’s not like there’s a residency program at medill, so i’ll just have to find things on my own. but this is the right choice for me. because honestly, the world of journalism is going to be completely different when we leave college than it is today. so getting an education in something so narrow that’s going through such a rapid change seemed too risky to me. i understand if you don’t trust this source, but a family friend is close friends with a professor at medill, and apparently the professor said if you really want to be a journalist today, major in something else for undergrad and go to columbia for graduate j-school. the medill professor recommended not going to medill. so if you decide to go to georgetown, don’t see it as giving up your dream. see it as taking a different path to get there, a path that might make you more viable in the long run.</p>
<p>the more media outlets you have at your disposal the better. Although the school might not be the "best’ ( i dont know anything about it) you may have opportunities in Washington that you cant get anywhere else.<br>
As far as richmond, I live in Richmond and am very familiar with the campus. What exactly are you looking for from a school other than the education? Its much much smaller, a complete change of scenery than Gtown. There is a real campus setting, its in the middle of the woods with a nice lake. There are few students, fewer minorities, but plenty of parties, coed dorms and plenty of interaction with nearby schools. VCU is 15 minutes away which has 40k+ students. The football team won the FCS title last year and the basketball team is typically pretty competitive as well.
Advantage to Richmond, is that it is a decent sized tv market (49 i think) its not far from dc, hampton roads/norfolk and the tri cities in nc. It could be a good place to get a foot in the door before making a step to a bigger market.
I’m not pushing Richmond, but I can give you its upsides and downsides, hope it helps</p>