<p>Hi, so I'm planning on going into journalism/communications. I'm trying to figure out what other schools to look at. Here's what I have so far:</p>
<p>Northwestern
Syracuse
GWU
American
Emerson
Northeastern
SMU
Elon
Wake Forest
WashU (family works there)
BU
UMaryland-College Park</p>
<p>And what collegeconfidential post would be complete without a profile of ME??? yaay</p>
<p>GPA: 3.46 unweighted at top Mass. public high school
Taken APUSH, Honors American Lit, Honors Media Studies, (all 11th grade)
will take AP Stats and AP Econ
Lowest grade: B- in precalc...everything else is a mix of A's and B's
-9th grade: mostly Bs, 10th grade: mostly A-'s, 11th grade: a mix, mostly B+'s
Grandfather died beginning of 11th grade --> impacted my grades</p>
<p>SAT: 590 CR, 620 M, 670 W
taking it again....got the same effing subscores twice (yeah, I know. It sucks.)</p>
<p>ECs: Yearbook (4 years); editor of multiple sections (3)
Newspaper (3) sports editor 11th grade, EIC this year
Magazine (4) assistant editor 10th and 11th, EIC 12th (moving from print toward online edition)
Class Council (planning dances and fundraisers) (4)
NHS (inducted junior year)
Peer tutor (2)
Volunteer at soccer program for special needs kids (10th grade)</p>
<p>Summer stuff
Tour guide at Mass. State House (before 11th grade)
Shakespeare class at Harvard-a legit college class thankyouverymuch (before 11th grade)
Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute (before 12th grade)</p>
<p>Awards
Kinley Award for Excellence in Yearbook (9th grade)
Yearbook got a gold medal from Columbia (9th grade)
Scholastic Writing Award-Honorable Mention (10th grade)
New England Scholastic Press Association: Superior achievement in scholastic editing and publishing for Class I for the entire staff (11th grade; got something similar in 10th grade)
Scholastic Writing Award-Silver Key (11th grade)</p>
<p>Definitely look at the University of Missouri, Columbia. One of the best journalism schools in the country. Their grads are so prevalent in broadcast journalism that they’re called “The Mizzou Mafia.” Meant in the nicest way, of course :)</p>
<p>That said, you haven’t answered a most important question: what can you afford? Private schools, and many OOS publics will cost you $50,000 per year. Have you had the money talk with your parents?</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad: definitely American and Emerson. UMaryland and SMU are probably safeties, or low matches.</p>
<p>katliamom, I’m lucky enough that my parents had started my college fund really early and I can afford private and OOS universities. I’ll definitely try to find some scholarships to help out/for spending/going out money in college. But money isn’t a huge issue.</p>
<p>and it really helped me figure out my list of schools and what was safe vs reach. I suggest as a first step you characterize your list the same way I did: safe, match, reach, far reach and let people comment. I’ve found naviance a lot of help. well, actually, we’ll know how much help it was post-admission. </p>
<p>on your current list of schools, the only thing I’d say is that I had northwestern and wash u on my original list but have removed them as I’d have such a small chance of admission, even ED.</p>
<p>my mom and brother were journalists at dailys and loved it. best of luck!</p>