Need help deciding on a major!

newyorkcitylivin
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:18:52 +0000

@PhantomVirgo I’d first like to thank you for the abundance of great advice you have given me! It really does help.

I’ve decided to choose Economics as my major, and luckily all schools I’m applying to offer that as a major. My personal statement (prompt #1), regarding my aspiration of wanting to work in journalism, pretty much reached its maximum length, being that both essays combined can’t be more than 1000 words. Therefore, I can’t add much to it but I can certainly make a few changes. I’m a little stuck on what exactly I should amend, though. If you don’t mind, could you take a look at it? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve never even thought about grad school for Journalism. Northwestern and Columbia do have prestigious journalism programs, maybe that could be another option I choose to take in the future if I still want a career in Journalism!

I’m at least now fairly certain what path I’ll be taking in college, which is Econ major with a double minor in Communications/English and Foreign Language (French, since I’ve already taken all 4 years including AP). I think I’ll be able to handle the math, given that its more stats intensive. My senior sched is just filled with as many AP courses as I can fit, which is why I couldn’t take both AP Calc AB and BC.