<p>Hello to the College Confidential Community,</p>
<p>I want to go to graduate school for journalism. All of the journalism schools I have seen are top notch, so I wonder what my chances would be in applying. I have a 3.29 GPA which will be higher after this semester, but I am the editor of an independent student created newsletter (I also write for the newsletter) and will be the editor of the literary magazine coming out soon (which I also contribute to). The newsletter is made in hard copies, but I do have the format to which I created it on my laptop if I needed it for an online application. My GPA has dropped since entering college, but it does not reflect the student or the person that I am. What do I do?</p>
<p>Your question is so specific that you need to be lucky enough to find someone on this forum applying to journalism schools.</p>
<p>Your writing sample and your LORS are probably the most important parts of your application. Usually, your grades, while important, only have to fall within the range that the program looks for, so often a 3.2 is as good as a 3.4, and a 3.5 as good as a 4.0. I just can’t say whether this is true of journalism programs or of the specific programs you’re looking at.</p>
<p>Why do you want to go to grad school for journalism? What do you want to do with the degree?</p>
<p>As for your experience, your GPA has dropped, so how can you say it doesn’t reflect the student you are? Mine rose, but I hit the books hard to earn good grades in my last two years. I earned the grades I received in my first two years, which weren’t good.</p>
<p>BTW, I’m a working journalist who was recently accepted to two grad schools for political science.</p>