<p>I just wanted to see if anyone had some advise as to which school to apply to? I am mostly interested in the School of Comm., but am concerned about applying to a smaller acceptance pool. Should I apply to Weinberg and then transfer to Comm? I just don't know what to do???? How does this work??
STATS: sibling attending now (legacy); ACT 30; GPA 4.625; EC's: speech, music, choir, marching band, theater</p>
<p>No- apply to the school you want to get into.</p>
<p>Your essays will be stronger since you can relate them to what you want to study, and there's never a guarantee that you can switch where you want to (although Comm IS relatively easy to transfer into). I'd still say go with Comm.</p>
<p>how tough is the Communications school?</p>
<p>in my paranoia i figure as follows:</p>
<p>roughly 250 freshmen admitted to comm. school
roughly 50% male
and i remember reading that ED makes up 25% of frosh admissions...</p>
<p>so, (250)(0.5)(0.25) = 31.75 Frosh Males Accepted ED To Comm School</p>
<p>please tell me im wrong</p>
<p>for all intents and purposes they are going to be roughly equal in admissions selectivity, trying to 'play the system' is going to be of marginal benefit.</p>
<p>If they really like you and don't have room for you in the school of comm (because you are worried about pool size) they will call/email you and ask if you would like them to move your application to the weinberg pool. You have to understand though that fewer acceptances also mean a smaller applicant pool; more people apply to weinberg.</p>
<p>in general the best way to 'play the system' in the past would have been to apply to SESP, but now that the average freshman SAT score there is a 1440 for this last year, that's probably not a good idea either. the school of comm and weinberg have roughly equivalent average SAT scores.</p>
<p>I was accepted to Comm regardless.. thanks for the help</p>
<p>congratulations, see you on campus in the fall!</p>
<p>i applied to wcas because i didn't know that i wanted to doubl in comm studies, but once you're on campus it's easy as heck to transfer into school of comm. it's guaranteed unless you're failing in wcas.</p>