<p>I know you’re from the prairie region and want to leave, and also want a smaller private school, but I’d recommend two schools…one that fits your criteria and one that doesn’t. Both are preppy and both have excellent newspapers and journalism alumni.</p>
<p>Gotta tout my school Oklahoma State, “the Princeton of the Plains” even though you want to get away from the plains. Our newspaper, the Daily O’Colly, has won the Pulitzer Prize recently (in the 90s) for college journalism, and received a top tier rating from the Associated Collegiate Press every year since 1989. Notable alumni include Paul Miller (the j school bears his name) who built the Gannett media empire, and served as president of the AP. The comic strip Dick Tracy first ran in the O’Colly, believe it or not–its author Chester Gould, who was a Lambda Chi here in Stillwater, wrote it to help pay for school. Then it took off and became a huge comic strip sensation.</p>
<p>Here’s the O’Colly’s website.
[The</a> Daily O’Collegian](<a href=“http://ocolly.com/]The”>http://ocolly.com/)</p>
<p>Another school I would suggest is TCU, located in Fort Worth. They have about 8,000 students in a really cool yuppie-oriented part of innercity Fort Worth. Students there are same as OSU…real preppy and mostly from the DFW or OKC area. Bob Schieffer went there, and their school of communications bears his name I think.</p>