Recommending and Choosing colleges.

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<p>For my career, I want to make logos, advertisements, posters, etc for companies. (Don’t like hand drawing that much, prefer manipulating what is already available/generating)
Along with that I also would like to learn how to do video post-production(editing) work, like the cutting and sfx for movies, tv shows, commercials. Maybe some 3D modeling/animation to go along with this.
+++++ Website design</p>

<p>What majors and minors should I take? I wish to double major + minor if it’s a reasonable work load.</p>

<p>Senior, public high school. NJ</p>

<p>30/240 Class rank</p>

<p>Transcript says GPA: 4.54 on a 4.5 weighted scale.</p>

<p>SAT: 1750, R-590, Math-580, W-580
Second time: 1890, 630, 710, 550.</p>

<p>AP: Junior Year- APUSH
Senior- AP Comp, AP Calc, AP Physics</p>

<p>Rest of classes are honors besides electives</p>

<p>25hrs/week job</p>

<p>Now, onto the colleges.</p>

<p>Academics-
What I’m looking for a college is a place that is respectable (for my field of work), teachers that teach well, and is decent with extra attention/help. The work load should be challenging but nowhere near overwhelming.</p>

<p>Attendance-
I plan to attend close to all of the classes in college, but miss like a day or 2 a month whether the reason be sickness, work that needs to be done for another class, or just “one of those days”, and not be penalized for that.</p>

<p>Price-
Parents make ~50k combined/year before taxes.</p>

<p>Location-
Northeast. West is fine, but I doubt I’ll find any good and affordable schools for me on the west coast.</p>

<p>Size-
No personal preferences, but I’d like for professors to have enough time to personally 1on1 help students.</p>

<p>Other-
I party but not a lot, I plan to only party like 3-4 times a month. Parties that are a nice medium between crazy wild frat parties, and the good high school parties. Aside from parties, I also want a community that I could do other stuff with (go to gym, sports, movies, etc).</p>

<p>Decent looking and safe campus.</p>

<p>Schools I’m applying to:
Syracuse
NYU
RIT
Rutgers
Drexel</p>

<p>Schools I might apply to:
Ithaca, TCNJ, Art Institute of Philadelphia </p>

<p>Any other recommendations?</p>

<p>Thanks a lot.</p>

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<p>To be honest, you could get those skills in a vocational AA at a community college. It’s the type of work where a portfolio and then reputation will get you the work. But you might have to suck up some drawing classes. You don’t need great skill but its good for quickly producing concept sketches for clients without handing them the work half done but not/barely paid for. </p>

<p>If you want to go to a 4 year for a depth of skill set and/or for the general education and experience, of course you can. But it’ll cost you way more. </p>

<p>Majors/minors in Graphic Design, Visual Communication or Computer Science. If you’re a bit more business minded, then marketing, communications or advertising might be worth a look. </p>

<p>If video editing isn’t offered officially, getting involved in the campus tv or film clubs might give you the training instead. </p>

<p>Unless you’re ill when you send your apologies somehow unless unconscious, I’ve always felt its extremely rude not to attend a class that a professor has spent time preparing for. If you have to skip class to manage another’s work then you need to sort out your time management. You won’t get extra days off when you’re working full time just because you don’t feel like working. It’s simply the polite and adult way to deal with things. </p>

<p>Have you done the college supersearch on the front page?</p>

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<p>You might consider Boston U. Its Communications school has started a lot of people on the path you want, and it’ll prepare you far beyond what you even know about now.</p>

<p>Media people with BU connections:
Ginnifer Goodwin
Marisa Tomei
Emily Deschanel
Julianne Moore
Geena Davis
Howard Stern
Gordon Hyatt
Rocco DiSpirito
Bill Simmons
Bill O’Reilly
Andy Cohen
Nina Garcia</p>

<p>(Shamelessly pulled from Wikipedia.)</p>