<p>Okay, so I'm a young student at the UofM--I should not really be worried about this sort of thing... but I really want to get the "lowdown" on Journalism school.</p>
<p>Anything journalism is what I'm leaning towards. I'm planning on being a double major in English and Public Policy.</p>
<p>Insights, advice, anything... please.</p>
<p>Gracias!</p>
<p>Oh, and I'm strongly considering Columbia, or Northwestern. Yikes.</p>
<p>UofM...which one?</p>
<p>Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>I'm a journalism undergrad...I read an article called "J-School Ate My Brain" the other day, which I found quite funny and interesting. I found that a lot of what he said is true, even at the undergrad level. The kid brings up some good points, which are worth taking into consideration before spending thousands of dollars in journalism school tuition. I won't copy and paste it onto here because I'm afraid of violating copyright laws, but if anybody is interested, they can just Google the title and it'll come up.</p>
<p>Quite honestly, you probably would have been better off going to a highly-ranked undergrad journalism program and skipping grad school altogether.</p>
<p>Moving on...the top ranked journalism schools are Missouri, Columbia, Northwestern, Syracuse.</p>
<p>You need to speak to someone in a journalism program, a professor, etc. We can't really "tell you" all about journalism. It's up to you to research areas in which you are interested. If you have specific questions, it's easier for us to help.</p>
<p>My sis did undergrad journalism at Missouri. She loves being a journalist, but the pay is crappy early on. Be prepared for that, and don't go into a lot of debt.</p>
<p>People usually do journalism grad because they didn't major in journalism as undergrads. It's not "advanced" journalism, at least not at a good undergrad program. If you are still a freshman or soph and you truly decide that journalism is for you, I would recommend transferring to a good undergrad journalism program and saving yourself a lot of time and money.</p>