<p>What do you think?? English major who would like to specialize in creative writing.
Intrested in theatre</p>
<p>Wash u has an amazing English department with tons of writing opportunities. Lots of known authors, mainly Carl Phillips, Mary Jo bang, Gerald Early, and William gass.</p>
<p>I was looking through the course book to show you some examples of the classes, but I stopped counting at 100. Seriously, the English dept has more than 100 classes which to me is just insane.</p>
<p>Please check out the English department website (which is amazing for resources and info) and see the specialties and literary periods/genres the professors focus on: [English</a> Department | Faculty](<a href=“Department of English | Washington University in St. Louis”>Department of English | Washington University in St. Louis)</p>
<p>lots of English majors do the Text and Tradition program ([English</a> Department | Undergraduate](<a href=“Department of English | Washington University in St. Louis”>Department of English | Washington University in St. Louis)) or at least one of the FOCUS or freshman seminar prigrams… Which are basically really small interdisciplinary classes/sequences begin your freshman year, taught by the best professors in the dept, and several of them take trips. Example, There is one called the Literary Culture of modern Ireland and they actually go to Ireland.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that most Wash U students double major… A popular combo with the English major is American Culture Studies which is very reknown and many of the coolest classes are in that dept, or Drama, Poli Sci, Womens Studies, or the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities which I gave a lot of information about in the WU 2014 subforum and is very inpressive.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard good things about Tufts so you probably can’t go wrong there, but everything I know about Wash Us English department is amazing, and then you have to factor in things like campus feel/beauty, student groups, dorms, things immediately near campus (wash u has the Loop and Forest Park in short walking distance, Tufts has is in a less than exciting suburban neighborhood with next to nothing in walking distance and 30 minutes on a train from downtown Boston). Visit both for two days and see which feels better for you personally!</p>
<p>My kid had to engage in a similar comparison. It was a close call, and Tufts won by a nose, but that is not an “obvious” choice. Both are great schools.<br>
Tufts is harder to get into ED; both are hard to get into RD, so if that’s what you’ve just pulled off you should be really proud of yourself.
Are you in a position to visit both and sit in on English/creative writing/theatre classes before you have to choose?
Also, does geography matter in making this choice, both in terms of what is closer to home for you and in terms of Boston vs. St. Louis? (The second part there is easy: Boston is a much cooler town than St. Louis, but that being said, WashU students seem perfectly happy about St. Louis.)
Finally, and most important, does one school strike you as being a better fit for you personally?</p>
<p>Also, to reference your interest in theatre… I don’t know a whole lot about the program here, but the shows at Edison Theatre on campus have been good when I’ve gone, the All Student Theatre group puts on shows that they direct/build sets/act in themselves in the Quad each semester, and there are lots of classes.</p>
<p>There are a couple study abroad programs in drama that really stand out, noteably the Globe Theatre Shakespeare program in London and the Made in France program. Go to the study abroad’s office website to learn about all the WU study abroad prigrams bc in my opinion that’s a big strength of wash u in general.</p>
<p>I disagree about the Boston vs STL comparasion. Mainly on the grounds that Tufts is a 30-40 minute ride to the Boston city center and nothing to do in walking distance. While wash u has plenty in walking distance and only a 20 minute Metro to downtown. BC/BU/Harvard versus Wash U would be a better argument in terms of location. When you are in college nearly all your time is on campus (unless you go to Columbia or something) and when you do leave campus it will mostly be to things in walking distance bc it will get old really quickly that when you want to do something off campus to have to “commute” 30+ min every single time</p>
<p>^^^that’s true. My son goes to Northwestern. When he was picking schools, he liked the fact that NU was close to a city. But now that he’s there, he rarely goes into Chicago. He goes shopping locally, but doesn’t go into the city.</p>