What is Emerson College (Boston, Massachusetts) known for?

How is the campus? Is it hard to get into? How are the students there? I was just hoping for an idea about this college. I want to be a writer, and am very passionate about it. I'm only a Sophmore, so I don't have SAT scores or anything to share. My grades aren't to good but my school is very hard and competitive. I also have community service hours and plan on writing an amazing essay. Do you think I'll have a chance? Thank you for your time=] Higher Education (University +) - 2 Answers Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : 1 : It's known for communications (TV/radio) and the arts (specifically, theater). It offers other degrees, but those are its two "babies." Here's the page... http://www.emerson.edu/academics ...which lists its programs, and writing is among them. It costs around $30,000 per year in tuition and fees to attend. It is fairly selective, having accepted only around 37% of those who applied in 2008 (the last year for which it released such statistics). If your grades up to this point (in your sophomore year) aren't good, then you'll need to get pretty much straight A's (or as close thereto as you can) from here on out if you're going to have a prayer of being accepted... and, statistically, even then, the odds are against you. You'd have to do phenomenally on everthing else... SAT, the essay, references/recommendations, etc. I'm sorry to be negative, but if you don't balance out the first two years of high school with some pretty darned good grades for the rest of your high school experience, then you should probably start thinking in terms of a backup school... and, believe me, there are EXCELLENT writing and/or journalism programs all over the country. You needn't attend Emerson to get good writing training. Another way you could do it, though, would be to finish out your junior and senior year with straight A's (or as near thereto as you can); and then go to a local community college for at least the freshman year of college (maybe both the freshman and sophomore years), and get straight A's in that. A so-so high school GPA can be forgiven if one has a stunning college GPA in the first two years in a little community or junior college. Emerson would weight the high GPA in college much more heavily than a so-so GPA in high school because, after all, college-level coursework is an entirely different animal than high-school coursework. So Emerson would look very favorably, I think, on a stunning college GPA, even atop a so-so high-school one. Or so I would think. Why don't you just contact Emerson and speak with someone in the admissions office? Get some advice/counseling. That's what they're there for. Hope that helps. 2 : Hi, I work at Emerson in the Communications Office. The SAT profile has risen year after year here. The campus is an urban one. No grass except for the Boston Common across the street. The students are friendly, creative, cool. We have wonderful faculty in the writing department. World class!

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