"Dear Admissions,
I want to be a journalist. Can you help me?"
...Think this would work?
I've sent emails to just a couple of schools in between course work, midterms, and assignments. It's a great distraction, as is checking out admissions requirements for journalism programs at all kinds of schools!
I called Columbia on Tuesday. The woman there assured me that I do not need to apply as an international student (since I am a US student, even though I will have a Canadian degree) and made my day when she told me that GPA DOES NOT MATTER. "Take a holistic approach," she said. If she wasn't miles and miles away I might have kissed her feet.
The GPA not mattering stands in contrast to the news I got from Ryerson: if you have a good enough GPA, you can get in without a portfolio. The admissions counsellor in Toronto was an extremely friendly lady who encouraged me to apply anyways: GPA and especially the ACADEMIC REFERENCES are key for them, she said. I would wait and apply for next next fall, but I am considering going for it now that she was so positive about the whole process. There is an information session scheduled for the end of this month that I plan on attending before I invest any time/energy in the application/worrying associated with applying.
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