<p>There’s a ton of newsworthy stuff that happens in Stillwater!! Gosh there’s heat waves, rainy spells, athletic events, updates on grad student Amy Morse’s ongoing saga with skin cancer (it might happen to YOU!!), more athletic events, more rainy spells, tuition hikes, more athletic events, people *****ing about the bus schedule, new speed signs being installed, heat waves that are really bad, SWINE FLU!!!, and of course, more athletic events. (and yes, I cherry-picked the most mundane news items, but it’s just a joke)</p>
<p>lol Actually, my little cousin who’s graduating from Auburn this coming weekend is going to OSU for grad school this fall. Hopefully there he won’t have to deal with the major crime wave that plagued Auburn a few years ago when my sister was there. Apparently there was a bicycle thief a-foot. It was big news for a while.</p>
<p>I’d suggest Tulane as well. I fell in love with the school (loved Emory just a bit more) and honestly you would probably have so many great things to write about being in New Orleans. Also your stats would get you into the Honor’s College I’m sure…and you could be a very good candidate for the DHS scholarship (full tuition)…and I’m 99.99% positive you would already get the $24,000/yr scholarship.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. You’ve given me great ideas. Any other schools I should consider? I feel like I might get lost at schools with 40K people (Madison, Austin, Bloomington), so maybe smaller state U’s would be better. The other schools I am currently investigating.</p>
<p>Is TCU super churchy? Its paper looks great, but I’m agnostic.</p>
<p>Yeah I would seriously recommend either OSU or TCU for you. TCU’s finaid sucks though…I only got like $20,000 in scholarships while SMU and OSU offered me near full rides. BUT you being a NMSF I have no doubt that you would get significantly better finaid than I did.</p>
<p>I’m Roman Catholic and I wasn’t too annoyed by the mostly protestant student body. People there were really cool when I visited. My overnight host had some ins with interesting cliques to say the least. I sat in on a poly sci class, that being my declared major, and during the class discussion I was surprised that the students didn’t seem to fall in with the evangelical conservative ideology thing.</p>
<p>Of course you have your typical evangelical conservative “Jesus freaks” that were probably home-schooled, but it didn’t seem any more churchy than anywhere else. The students are your typical smorgasbord of political and religious backgrounds and everyone gets along great. The Brite School of Divinity, one of the nation’s top divinity schools, recently broke away from TCU but I think they still sort of answer to the university…it’s kind of like Puerto Rico I guess. lol</p>
<p>The interesting thing that all the guys I met at TCU were bragging about was 60/40. Meaning 60% girls, 40% guys. The guys were ecstatic. Does that sound too churchy? lol</p>
<p>The only problem that I see with TCU is again this issue of censorship for the writers. A religious school may have tighter control over its paper. OSU is much larger than TCU, which is about the same size as Tulane, but OSU is going to give more freedom for opposition to school policy ect. I’ve known a lot of TCU folks and the school as a whole is not too religious. It’s a good school. The paper may be restricted, even if the students themselves are no different than anywhere else.</p>
<p>Yeah you have a really good point Benetode, but you’ll encounter that everywhere you go unfortunately. Liberals are just as excellent at censoring the hell out of aspiring college journalists as conservatives are…</p>
<p>Although I have seen some pretty shocking O’Colly stories lately. During the recent Student Govt Association elections, it was these two Greek twins against a pair of Independents…needless to say which side the O’Colly took, unraveling bizarre allegations of a secret society of Greeks aimed at pushing out Independents in school leadership (also known as every fraternity on campus…lol). Recently there was the hit editorial, “Yes, I’m gay. Did the drag tip you off? Now can I get my food?” And on and on…</p>
Actually, my little cousin who’s graduating from Auburn this coming weekend is going to OSU for grad school this fall. Hopefully there he won’t have to deal with the major crime wave that plagued Auburn a few years ago when my sister was there. Apparently there was a bicycle thief a-foot. It was big news for a while.</p>