<p>Where else did you apply for Communications?</p>
<p>Daughter is a rising senior--very interested in Newhouse (mag maybe), but wants to add other schools to her list in case Newhouse doesn't work out. She's thought of Boston College and Elon University, but feels like she's missing something.
thanks.</p>
<p>I applied to Northwestern, USC, and NYU for journalism. NU and USC are very strong. You might want to check out Missouri-Columbia, Indiana, Ohio, Ball State, Kent State, etc.</p>
<p>Northwestern, NYU, Emory, Lehigh, Miami, Mizzou.
I never planned on applying to the last 3, but I freaked out that newhouse wouldn't take me after Northwestern rejected me ED (they don't defer, so it's in or out immediately)
There are 3 different kinds of journalism schools. BU, a popular option for many SU applicants, studies journalism the way you'd study art. Their courses would center on the question "what is journalism?" more than "how do I become a journalist?"
Ithaca is technical. Hands on all the way.
Newhouse is a trade school with a liberal arts school attached. When you're taking your A&S core, you're learning bits and pieces of everything, broadening your mind, if you will. When you're in your Newhouse classes, you're on an express track to an editorial, production, graphic, etc. career with blinders on. </p>
<p>The visitor's office likes to say that Newhouse's real peers are Medill at Northwestern and the J-School at Mizzou.</p>
<p>I applied to Northwestern, USC, SU, and UMCP. Chose CP after being accepted to all four and recieving merit money at SU and USC easily for the package: location, j-school rep, academics outside of j school, and of course cost. </p>
<p>SU is a strong school, particularly in the social sciences, and it has good facilities for journalism - especially for broadcast - but it really didn't stack up to the other schools in terms of location and was only equal to and sometimes not as good (such as in the case of Northwestern) in terms of academics outside of the j-school (imho the most important part of a journalist's education). All of those things should factor into your decision when deciding where to apply. I think that one of the last items of concern should be the trade school rep, though still important, so it is kind of laughable that SU would consider Northwestern one of its only "real peers" alongside Mizzou, which has questional academics outside of its j-school.</p>
<p>Oh of course! Yeah, when it comes to the regular liberal arts education, you're right, those 3 are all over the map. They just mean the journalism schools alone: Newhouse, Medill, J-School (Mizzou's school of journalism).</p>
<p>My DD was thinking about majoring in journalism (magazine) during the last application season. Although she eventually decided not to major in journalism, we did quite a bit of research on J-Schools. The usual suspects were SU, NU, USC, and Mizzou. There were others that seemed to have good programs such as the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University and Ithaca College.</p>