College Goals and Possibilities

Calcruzer
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:45:59 +0000

In my view, you need to consider a school that has many majors for you to choose from. The reason is that you appear to still be undecided whether you will end up in:

(1) a social science–History, Sociology, Political Science, or Anthropology
(2) business–marketing/advertising, international business, maybe business law,
(3) fine arts–graphic arts, visual arts, artistic creations
(4) communications–persuasion/debate/regular law courses, maybe journalism
(5) motion pictures and theatre–acting, stage design, directing, script writing, comedy, or
(6) television/telecommunications–all of the items listed in #5 above, but geared towards TV/radio

For this reason, you should consider a major university that has all of these departments–but that focuses on general education during the first two years. During the first two years, you can take these courses, and see what you like the best.

Fortunately, there are lots of schools that fit this category in both California and the NE for people with your grades and background. The schools listed below are those primarily for people like yourself with really good grades.

In California–all the UCs have most of the above, except for business–which is only at Berkeley and Riverside (at the undergrad level). Stanford has this, so does USC. Other possibly schools are Santa Clara and Cal Poly SLO–though this last one focuses more on the sciences.

In the NE–most of the Ivies (all but Cornell) fit the bill, as does Tufts, Boston College, NYU, Fordham, and maybe the Univ of Connecticut. If you are willing to go to Philadelphia, there is also Villanova–if to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., then consider Georgetown, and John Hopkins, and possibly the Univ of Maryland. (Keep in mind that the liberal arts colleges lin the NE–Amherst, Colgate, Williams, Wellesley, and Vassar–will probably not have the TV/radio courses and possibly the film schools that the others have–and will definitely not have business courses–so they are not on this list for that reason).

P.S. The other 7 Ivies (not Cornell) are Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Univ of Penn, and Brown.

Good luck to you.