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I’m a Junior in high school. I want to be a writer. What college should I go to?
I’m a junior in high school this year and I need to seriously think about college. I want to be a writer (my dream is to be on the best seller list) and my main thing I write about is horror or romance mysteries. I live in New Jersey and I don’t want to live out of state since it’ll be the first time on my own. And I wanna be close enough that I can come and visit my family but far enough away where I can have my own independance and not depend on my mom for everything…The collges I wanted to go to were Camden County, Gloucester County, and Rutgers (all in NJ) but now I’m thinking about going somewhere else, maybe in another state, to show my mom I can handle being on my own. But I want it to be a good school with a good literature/english department. What are some colleges that are good for me?
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Most selective liberal arts colleges and non-technical universities have good English departments. (A lot of the technical universities have good ones, too; the subject’s just not their main focus.) Finding a place that’ll support the kind of writing you’re interested in may be trickier. A lot of creative writing departments have a bias against “genre” fiction like romance, mystery, and horror: they don’t think it has enough literary merit. Investigate the faculty of any program you’re interested in to find out what they’ve written and whether they’re a good match with your style.
One place that does offer a concentration in popular fiction, at least at the graduate level, is Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania. You might want to give it a look.
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I heard Sarah Lawerence was good. I think any good to great college with a BA in English would help a lot. And especially a concentration or minor in Literature and/or Creative Writing.
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i live in NY some schools you should look at are SUNY schools like binghamton, geneseo, stony brook and Buffalo.
Also look at NYU its hard to get in though. In PA good school are Temple and Drexel. And look at penn state(university park) and University of Maryland, College park
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New York or any neighboring states like Pennsylvania, Delaware might be good
great source to search colleges based on various criteria:
www.petersons.com
also check with publications that give rankings:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php
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Get good grades and Good letters of rec. Go to Rutgers!
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any ivy league school or a school with a good reputation…. nyu, penn state, columbia, harvard, yale, princeton….etc…
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