What would my major be, and what colleges good for that major?

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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
Took another 1, scores come in tomorrow, will update.</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>Before research, the schools that I were applying to were NYU, RIT, Rutgers, Drexel, TCNJ, and Ithaca.</p>

<p>NYU: Too expensive I believe, and I don’t like the lack of campus.
RIT: After ruling out NYU I thought RIT would be my #1 choice but then reading some reviews, the consensus is that there is an extreme lack of social life.
Rutgers(NB)- I don’t know if Rutgers offers what I need academically.
Drexel- Seen a lot of reviews stating horrible education quality.
TCNJ- Education quality does not match up with how selective they are.
Ithaca- Overall bad reviews.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot.</p>

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<p>There is a blog called Graphic Design Schools that might help you. Can’t post a link since it’s a blog.</p>

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<p>Would what I want to do be graphic design though? Or more communications?</p>

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<p>It’s graphic design.</p>

<p>“to make logos, advertisements, posters, etc for companies”. That is exactly what my mom does, and she is a graphic designer, with a BA in Graphic Design. I’m not sure what software she uses but she builds all her stuff (logos, websites, etc etc…) on the computer. If you’re not into actually designing something (from scratch), GD may not be for you. You will learn how to build websites doing graphic design. That is definitely a part of it. </p>

<p>“Maybe some 3D modeling/animation to go along with this”. This is also something you learn. If my mom hadn’t have learned this stuff, it would make graphic design almost impossible (for what she does anyway…)</p>

<p>As for which college is best: whatever you can afford without taking on too much debt.</p>

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<p>Look for programs like Columbia College Chicago’s Interactive Arts and Media, where you will get design, programming, advertising, animation all in one. Sounds like you want a college that has film and television courses available too.</p>

<p>I think you are giving too much weight to these mysterious ‘reviews’. You need to look for colleges that have the courses you want and that you can afford or get enough aid.</p>

<p>I have to say it is ridiculous to plan to miss 1 or 2 days a month at college.</p>

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<p>Why do you want to double major if you don’t even know what you want to major in yet? Double majoring is for students who really need to combine two fields, often complementary, to do something specific (like economics + math for future financial analysts) or students who are super interested in deep study in two fields. One doesn’t just arbitrarily decide to double-major.</p>

<p>Anyway for that career, I believe you could major in anything as long as you had the skills necessary, but there are some majors that may benefit you more than others depending on where you want to go. If you go to a very large university, you could major in advertising, media, or communications - there are often majors offered at larger places. Some places may even have a web design & production major, or a graphic design major. At a smaller school with fewer majors, English may be what you want. At certain smaller places the English department has a lot of “English in the professions” type classes, like “journalistic writing” or “writing for advertisements” or something (at least, my LAC did).</p>

<p>Also, attendance policies are going to vary from professor to professor; they’re not a university standard thing. To a certain extent so will the amount of extra attention and their teaching skill, although there are some places with better overall teachers than others. Partying 3-4 times a month is nearly every weekend, so I would say that’s “a lot” (but there’s nothing wrong with that).</p>

<p>I don’t understand what “overall bad reviews” means for Ithaca College; I have a friend who went there and he loves it, and I had a student who goes there and she also likes it. Same comment for Drexel; I don’t know where you are seeing these reviews but Drexel overall is a well-respected educational institution.</p>

<p>A glance at Rutgers’ majors page tells me that they have a communication major, as well as a minor in digital communication, information, and media.</p>

<p>Syracuse has a College of Visual and Performing arts with majors in communications design and computer art. They also have a School of Management where you could major in marketing - you could potentially double-major or minor in one.</p>

<p>SUNY Purchase College has a variety of arts programs - there’s a program in new media that looks at the interface of visual art and computer science.</p>

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<p>I want to double major because I really want to do both like digital arts/graphic design, and also video editing. And I feel like I need a minor as well because I want to go more towards the marketing and advertising side of graphic design.</p>

<p>From what you said about Syracuse, it sounds like exactly what I’m looking for.</p>

<p>Do you have any opinions on RIT?</p>

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<p>1920 super score !</p>

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<p>My son goes to RIT and is in the software engineering program. He does not drink or party and says that there are times when most people seem to be partying. But, he has also managed to find something to do every weekend - ftness club, haunted houses, movies in the pool, etc. There are hundreds of clubs and plenty of things going on all the time, including organized social events. Most kids there seem to work very hard though and my son is often does (at least that is what he tells me) computer science homework on the weekends. He truly loves it there.</p>