<p>Okay I know this is so last minute, but please help me decide!</p>
<p>I want to do journalism. Northwestern has been my dream for a very long time, and I got into Medill. But Missouri also has a very good jschool (so I hear??) and I got into a selective program within their jschool. So, I'd get a lot more individual attention at Missouri. It would be less intense and maybe I'd have more fun?</p>
<p>Also, money is a big problem. (Northwestern is obviously a lot more expensive, and I didn't get a lot of financial aid.)</p>
<p>I'm so afraid of regretting my decision.</p>
<p>Northwestern and U of Missouri are both considered to have the top journalism programs in the country, so you can't go wrong either way. To make a decision, you need to ask yourself some questions: Where do you see yourself fitting in the best (remembering that there is more to college than your major)? Can you afford Northwestern or would you rather use the money for something else down the road, like grad school? You also might want to list your reasons for Northwestern being your dream school - and compare the reasons with what Mizzou has to offer.</p>
<p>Thanks, that's great advice. I guess those are just difficult questions to answer. I'm not sure where I'd fit in the best--I'm worried NU kids will be cutthroat and stuck up and that Mizzou kids won't be very intellectually stimulating, haha. But I know that that's just a huge generalization and probably isn't true at all. And I know that both are pretty big schools (esp. Mizzou), so I'm sure I'd find friends at either.
If I do journalism undergrad I'm not sure I'll have to go to grad school? I guess that's something I'll have to decide later, but yeah, I'd like not to be in debt until I'm 40. I can afford NU but it'd mean taking out at least 20,000 in loans and my parents spending some of their savings. I don't want to make my parents bend over backwards for me.</p>
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<p>I'm sure some will be that way, but you'd find your niche. At Mizzou, the other honors kids will be at a similar intellectual level to your own.</p>
<p>Are you in-state or OOS for Missouri? Have you visited both schools? If your goal is in journalism, you will not go wrong with either. But if change your mind, NU will be a better choice from the academic standpoint while Missouri will be better from the financial standpoint. Regardless, you shall not regret your decision once you make it.</p>
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<p>a huge generalization that you're going to find out is more or less actually rather accurate</p>
<p>in this case i might say financial considerations would be enough to tip me in a practical sense towards missouri</p>
<p>NORTHWESTERN!
jk, you're probably right about the finances. northwestern is just my dream school for journalism.</p>
<p>but chicago... or missouri...
to look at it in a completely impractical sense, which place would have better stories to tell?</p>
<p>you should probably go with missouri. but i wouldn't.</p>
<p>I live in Missouri, and I have heard that Mizzou is located in a great college town (columbia)</p>
<p>If you want to be around a lot of really intelligent people, I would go with Northwestern. You would without a doubt find intelligent people @ Mizzou, however, but there would tons more at Northwestern.</p>
<p>The Valedictorian from my high school is at Mizzou right now for pre-med. He applied to Northwestern, Harvard, and Yale...etc and was rejected at all of them. His mom is a substitute teacher at my school, and she says that she "gets the feeling that he would be happier somewhere else."</p>