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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- 19-13 that is very helpful.  What state was the CTCL in?  Curious.  Thx much.[/quote]

The CTCL school was in Ohio. Again this was just our impressions as I know both Ithaca and Syracuse are very well regarded for journalism I don’t want to provide poor or misguided feedback. I think part of it was we were looking for a little more I don’t want to say intellectual but I think for our son we wanted a little smaller with a student body that appeared more intellectually curious I quess is the best way to say it. He’s quiet and doesn’t drink - would rather read or watch a movie. I suspect Ithaca does a very good job at the firm and radio programs but they almost had a vocational feel to it which had merit but I thought college should be more about learning and opening your mind and I quess that was the vibe I wasn’t feeling.

So I pointed out to my son that a lot of SLACs had great film programs and that in his career he would time to learn the vocational but never again would he have four years to learn for the sake of learning. Wesleyan, Kenyon, Oberlin, Lafayette, and Denison to name a view had programs with interesting course catalogs. He didn’t apply to all of them and he wasn’t accepted at all that he did apply to but for us that type of school was a better fit. My son does not go to Oberlin but that was the school I had mentioned to the Ithaca professor we would be overnighting at an accepted students function. She basically cane out and said if your son can get accepted at schools like Oberlin he doesn’t belong here. And his stats were similar to your sons. But he wanted film not theater or journalism and I know Ithaca and Syracuse are both well regarded in those disciplines.

I wish you and your DS the best of luck.

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