I am a current first year student at Emory, and was accepted last year Early Decision 2. When going through the college process, I was truly not focused on the proper objectives; all I cared about was being somewhere warm, at a top 20, and the school had to have D1 teams. Duke was the first school I toured, I immediately fell in love and I applied ED. After being rejected from Duke, however, as well as deferred from my safeties EA, my family, other advisors and myself thought it would be best to apply to Emory ED2 given I’m a legacy. Yet, all throughout the process, as well as after I was accepted, I was unsure of my place at Emory academically. I have always been interested in media/journalism/communications, although my family has not always been supportive of me going to school for this. Emory is extremely pre-prof, and with barley one journalism/communications course, I feel completely out of place amongst a sea of pre this and pre that. I know that NW, USC, SU and UNC all have well regarded undergrad journalism programs, although I’m also open to looking into communications programs as well. Any advice on how to manage the process of transferring, or other schools I should look into would be very much appreciated.
You have only been at Emory what? A week? You are not giving it a chance.
If you were denied at Duke and deferred EA at others you will need to excel at Emory if you hope to transfer to highly selective schools like the ones you list. (Newhouse at Syracuse is highly selective.) If you try and transfer in as a sophomore they will look at your high school GPA and test scores, for better or worse.
Look into Boston University COM or Northeastern University CAMD.
Will your family pay for a journalism major at another school if they disapprove of it?