<p>I'm wondering what would be the best and other good schools if I'm an aspiring writer interested in writing literary fiction. I go to a private school and am taking the toughest courses available to me, so the top schools are a possibility for me. What schools should I look at?</p>
<p>My friend is a CW major. She applied to Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins as her top choices.</p>
<p>UC Irvine is supposed to be quite good too. And USC.</p>
<p>There are not really that many schools with a formal creative writing program at the undergrad level, so that would probably be a good place to start. I know Iowa and NYU have very good programs.</p>
<p>I believe Denison and Kenyon have creative writing programs.</p>
<p>Columbia, Brown, and JHU all sound good (and I have legacy at Columbia, which could always help). Since those are all basically reaches, what are some matches and safeties?</p>
<p>Also I'm not so sure that I'd want to go to a liberal arts school, it just doesn't appeal to me. I like the idea of a medium university, in a city or suburban area, and preferably not in the West/California. I don't like the warm, I prefer the cool/cold much more.</p>
<p>NYU has a really good creative writing program, and it seems like it may be a school you would want to look at.</p>
<p>Also, if you are interested in screenwriting or possibly playwriting, the Tisch School at NYU has one of the best dramatic writing programs in the entire country, but it's very hard to get into. I believe they only accept 200 students every year. To apply you must have a pretty good portfolio of writing projects. Satires, essays, screenplays, etc. One of my best friends was just accepted in and she's really excited to go :)</p>
<p>Per student, Bard has by far the most robust creative writing faculty (far more than any of the Ivies.)</p>
<p>NYU sounds interesting, and according to my profile at Princeton Review it's a Good Match for me.</p>
<p>But Bard is a just a no. In the first place I really would like to be at a university, not a LAC, in a city, and Bard is a rural LAC. Also, Bard is notorious for having no library. I need a big, research library, because I do have other interests past writing like politics and history.</p>
<p>Anyway, any other Matches or Safeties you guys could suggest?</p>
<p>My D, who will be double majoring in Creative Writing and Psychology, found programs she liked at Skidmore, U Chicago and U Michigan...will be at U Michigan this fall.</p>
<p>I don't know how it compares to other schools, but since you mentioned liking cold, I had a great experience in Cornell's creative writing program. There's a list of hundreds of writers on their website that have come out of Cornell, plus Cornell is a very diverse mix of theoretical and practical, so you can study something else to shore up your finances until you write the great American novel.</p>
<p>Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington</p>
<p>I like Middlebury for CW</p>
<p>Creative writing</p>
<p>in addition, from Rugg's Recommendations:
Bard
Middlebury
Beloit
Barnard
Bennington
Brown
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Creighton
Denison
Eckerd
Emerson
Fla St
Grinnell
Hamilton
Hobart
U Iowa
John's Hopkins
Kenyon
U of Michigan
SUNY New Paltz
NC State
Northwestern
Oberlin
U Oregon
U Pitt
Redlands
San Fran St
Sarah Lawrence
Susquehanna
Sweet Briar
Temple
UVA
Wheaton (MA)
Wittenberg</p>
<p>School U. S. and World Report Ranking for graduate creative writing programs
1. University of Iowa 4.5
2. John Hopkins University (MD) 4.2
3. University of Houston (TX) 4.2
4. Columbia University (NY) 4.1
5. University of Virginia 4.1
6. New York University 4.0
7. University of California, Irvine (CA) 4.0
8. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) 4.0
9. University of Arizona 3.9
10. Boston University 3.8
11. Cornell University 3.8
12. University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA) 3.8
13. University of Montana (MT) 3.8
14. University of Washington 3.8
15. Washington University (MO) 3.8
16. Brown University (RI) 3.7
17. Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) 3.7
18. University of Arkansas (AR) 3.7
19. University of Utah 3.7
20. Arizona State University 3.6
21. Emerson College (MA) 3.6
22. George Mason University (VA) 3.6
23. Hollins College (VA) 3.6
24. Sarah Lawrence College (NY) 3.6
25. Syracuse University (NY) 3.6
26. University of Florida 3.6
27. University of Maryland, College Park (MD) 3.6
28. University of Pittsburgh 3.6
29. Warren Wilson College (NC) 3.6
30. University of California, Davis (CA) 3.5
31. University of Southern Mississippi (MS) 3.5
32. University of Texas, Austin (TX) 3.5
33. Iowa State University 3.4
34. University of Missouri, Columbia (MO) 3.4
35. University of Oregon 3.4
36. University of Southern California (CA) 3.4
37. Bennington College (CT) 3.3
38. CUNY--City College of New York (NY) 3.3
39. Florida State University 3.3
40. Ohio University 3.3
41. Ohio State University 3.3
42. Penn State University, University Park (PA) 3.3
43. University of Alabama (AL) 3.3
44. University of Denver (CO) 3.3
45. University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC) 3.3
46. San Francisco State University 3.2
47. University of Cincinnati 3.2
48. University of New Hampshire 3.2
49. Western Michigan University (MI) 3.2
50. American University (DC) 3.1
51. Colorado State University (CO) 3.1
52. Eastern Washington University 3.1
53. Georgia State University 3.1
54. New Mexico State University (NM) 3.1
55. Saint Mary's College of California 3.1
56. San Diego State University 3.1
57. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL) 3.1
58. Temple University (PA) 3.1
59. University of Colorado, Boulder (CO) 3.1
60. Virginia Commonwealth University 3.1
61. Wichita State University (KS) 3.1
62. Brooklyn College (NY) 3.0
63. California State University, Fresno (CA) 3.0
64. Mills College (CA) 3.0
65. SUNY, Albany 3.0
66. University of Georgia 3.0
67. University of Hawaii, Mano (HW) 3.0
68. University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign (IL) 3.0
69. University of Minnesota (MN) 3.0
70. Vermont College of Norwich University (VT) 3.0
71. SUNY--Binghamton (NY) 3.0</p>