<p>I do a lot of writing work and had a 4.0 GPA in high school for honors writing. At community college in my first semester I have a 3.4 GPA overall but my English course is getting me a B+. I have tons of experience writing professionally and want to be involved in journalism. What are the best schools that fit for this kind of profile?</p>
<p>Well, that depends on whether you want a writing-intensive curriculum or whether you want to be involved in journalism. I was going to recommend LACs for the former; because they have smaller classes and professors who spend more time on grading, they tend to assign more papers and emphasize communication skills. But they also tend not to have journalism majors; you usually need to go to a larger university for that. (However, you don’t need to major in journalism to be involved in it; you can major in English and work on the college’s paper or write for the local paper.)</p>
<p>Hamilton College (a SLAC in upstate New York) has a writing across the curriculum program and is considered a writing-intensive college. Emerson College (in suburban Boston) is also a college dedicated specifically to communication and the arts; they’re an LAC with a journalism major as well as in writing, literature, and publishing.</p>
<p>Middlebury College also has a writing-intensive requirement and is just a good all-around LAC. Dickinson also requires WI classes and apparently their students usually take more than one. Several of the CUNY colleges, like Lehman, Queens, and Brooklyn, have a list of WI classes on their websites (defined as a class that requires at least 15-20 pages of writing, spread out over more than one assignment).</p>
<p>why not ask the writing teachers you’ve had? they know you and your writing better than any of us and may be able to pinpoint programs where you could excel.</p>
<p>Check out Kenyon.
Look for colleges that have Writing Intensive requirements (as suggested above) or Writing accross the curriculum classes.
Note sure how easy these schools are to get into from a community college.</p>
<p>For journalism, U Missouri-Columbia has was is often considered the best undergraduate school of journalism.
You’d need higher grades than a B+ in writing though to have a real shot.</p>
<p>Other good J programs include Syracuse, Northwestern, and Ohio University.</p>