<p>I have family in NY I can stay with, so the northeast is more ideal if you concerning cost. I have no family or friends on the west coast. I have never even been to California, but I have been to the northeast. </p>
<p>There are plenty of schools which fit my criteria. I basically do not want a big sports/jock school in the middle of no where. I am really open in majoring in English or Communications. The school does not have to have a journalism major, though it is preferred. If I go to a school in the northeast and then move to California, it will help if my employer knows where I went to school. I don’t plan on living in the same town my whole life. </p>
<p>I can get bored easily and I need things to do and places to go. If I’m in LA or NY or Boston I will never get bored. If I am in the middle of no where, then I might have some problems. Of course the school has to be affordable, lol. I think Northeastern and Emerson are great fits. </p>
<p>My whole objective is to go to a school where rigor matters. I want to make this clear, lol. I don’t want to go somewhere where I could have got in with easier classes. That defeats the whole point in trying so hard to go to a good school. It doesn’t have to be in the top 50, but the school needs to be decent. If I am in the top of the class in that particular college and the people who have lower stats still took honors and ap classes, I would be fine with that. I’m just not fine going somewhere where others took the easy way out.</p>