<p>Okay so I signed an athletic scholarship to a school stupidly due to the fact that it doesnt have my major? What should I do now. Im thinkong about I want to play college ball and still study what I want. Im thinking abou transfering after the semester because I go to a college where alot of credits will not transfer (as I been told by many people) and I dont want to waste money on classes that dont matter since they wont transfer anyway. I want to study communications/broadcasting/journalism so im not sure what to do. I leaning on transfering and trying to walk on because im established as a college athlete now since ive played a season and could possibly redshirt at the other college as well because I didn’t redshirt this year. What is the best route for me academically, financially, and athletically? </p>
<p>Does the college offer any similar majors? Does it allow you to create your own major? Does the school have a tv or radio station you can work on? Ask if you can talk to a dean or some academic adviser at the school. Also about half of the people who go in with majors end up switching so you may want to see what happens.</p>
<p>You can major in English and minor in communication, if that is available.</p>
<p>English/writing is offered at almost every school and working at the radio station or school paper or literary magazine should provide a close equivalent to what you’re looking for. Transferring is likely to have a huge negative financial impact, so I’d see if you can make it work with a combo like I just described. Plenty of media people go into it with history or English degrees, you don’t need a journalism or communications degree to break in.</p>
<p>Journalism is normally a graduate subject, do well in the current school and get a Master degree from Missouri or Northwestern and no one is going to look at your UG school. </p>
<p>If you want to become a journalist, then I recommend studying what you want to write about as an undergrad, and then maybe doing graduate work in Journalism at a school which has that degree. </p>
<p>What do you want to write about? Consider pairing that up with a double-major in English.</p>
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<p>Doesn’t EVERY school have communications? (or nearly every?)</p>
<p>Find out if you can get out of LOI if your school doesn’t have your major. That said, there are alternatives to journalism and broadcasting at most schools.</p>
<p>What school is this? We can probably find something that would work.</p>
<p>Ok…I see that you are already there and hate it for other reasons.</p>
<p>Well, are they paying for your education? Who will pay if you transfer?</p>
<p>Well the scholarship pays a lil bit and its a Christian college so it doesn’t have any communications and stuff like that. Its mainly a biblical and law school. If I transfer I could get a job and my parents are willing to pay also because they are anyways because its a private college where im at now and its still expensive as crap</p>
<p>If it’s actually cheaper to go elsewhere (a state school), then by all means do so, if you can leave the football behind. I have a neighbor who just tossed his considerable sports scholarship after one year because he hated the school and could come much closer to home at a lower price and at a better school. He’ll play club at his new school. The allure of playing Div I wore off pretty quick when he realized the school wasn’t preparing him for life like he wanted - dad’s not happy, but he is.</p>
<p>Im not at a D1 school anyway. I plan on tranfering to a close by D1 and trying to walk on. I want to go somewhere where I could have a chamce to walk on and still get my major</p>
<p>*chance</p>
<p>Since we don’t know how good you are we have no idea if you have a chance to walk on. Certainly not the top football Us. What is your home state?</p>
<p>Alabama;and no im not trying to go to Auburn or Alabama</p>
<p>Actually, quite a lot of places don’t have communication majors. I think it is mostly public universities and some larger private research universities that have the major.</p>
<p>UAB has a couple of communications majors. They are in Division I, but a lower-key Division I team so if you are really good you might be able to walk on. The University of South Alabama is also D1 but has a communication major. UA-Huntsville has a communication major, too, and they compete in Division II so a walk-on may be possible there. North Alabama is also D2 and has a couple of communications majors with three tracks each.</p>
<p>This is a case in which I might try to get in contact with a coach at some of the other universities you’re considering first and see what they think - ask them what are your chances of walking on the team if you were to transfer?</p>
<p>Yea I was thinking about mostly Troy which is on my top list because they’re like 45 minutes away from where I live</p>