<p>Von, just something else to think about from the perspective of NYC. There are many venues/clubs, cafes in Greenwich Village that promote and give arena to people who want to share their work and try out their prose, short stories, storytelling and songwriting, plays etc, as well as offer workshops for writers.</p>
<p>NYU I would say! JHU is more for the Science oriented, I think.</p>
<p>NYU’s creative writing program really isn’t too shabby–Jonathan Safran Foer (who wrote “everything is illuminated”) is currently teaching a course, and I’ve heard really nice things about it. Also I agree with above posters–NYC is far more an interesting and inspirational place than Baltimore.</p>
<p>Well, I applied to CAS, meaning the only creative writing I would be doing would be under a minor, not a major. In retrospect, I wish I had applied to Dramatic Writing at NYU since I might have actually had a chance. Blehg!</p>
<p>I thought CAS had the creative writing program?</p>
<p>Only as a minor.</p>
<p>Oh sorry I misread your post! I’m sure you can take some of the classes offered at Dramatic Writing–I went to an info session today and apparently you can take some of the classes offered to Dramatic Writing majors if you show proficiency and the professor okays it. Also, CAS has a very strong lit department, you could major in that and minor in creative writing. Is that a possibility for you?</p>
<p>Well, if I majored in English at NYU, I would be focusing on expository writing. I was hoping to spend most of my time on creative writing. JHU also offers a Film major, open to all students. If I wanted to double major in writing sems at JHU and film, I could easily go into screenwriting. If I wanted to do this at NYU, I’d have to most likely internally transfer. I just feel if I go to NYU, I will be partially sacrificing my academic goals, although I feel like NYU was built for independent students like me. Please correct me if this sounds outrageous.</p>