School Dilemma

[Chrislit18]

Hi everyone,

first off, thanks in advance for helping, especially if anybody can put perspective on this. This is not about a guy or friend crisis, but a college/senior year thing. I am currently enrolled in the following classes my senior year:

1st Semester
America During the Cold War [Honors]
Pottery
VHS Astronomy [Honors]
Literature of the Fantastic [Honors]

2nd Semester
Probabilty and Statistics [CP]
Economics [Honors]
Internship
Europoean Literature [Honors]

As you can see, I am definetly not taking a slacker Senior Year. However, as of now I have only taken 3 math courses throughout high school, and some colleges want 4 on your transcript. Prob and Stat would be that fourth course - plus it coinciding with Econ makes me happy.

However, today I was talking to my Media teacher about the TWN TV Studio program at the school, which is where a group of like 10 students helps produce a biweekly 'news show' that is aired on Local Access. It sounds lame, but it is wicked fun, and Media, besides American Cinema, has been my favorite course all year [minus reading Crime and Punishment in AP Lit, but that's a different story.] And I really would love to MINOR or DOUBLE MAJOR in Communications in college. I wanted to major in it, but the industry sucks, and I realized I want to be an English Teacher. [English Education will most likely be my major in college.]

As of now, my top choice school is Quinnipiac University, which has EVERYTHING, it is my DREAM school, and I think that with my grades and everything the way it is, I have a decent chance of getting in, and you only need 3 maths unless you are planning on going in for nursing; but my second choice school is Hampshire College, which you need 4 maths for no matter which program. I think that I have a better chance at getting in QU than Hampshire anyways, and if I got into both I'd pick QU, but I'm faced with a tough problem here. It's either switch out of math, forgo applying to Hampshire, and if I don't get in QU probably get stuck going to a MA State school [safties]; or take the class I have been DYING to take and hope for the best. The TV studio class is offered at Honors level; but I really have no idea what to do. Plus my Media teacher told me that I'm enthusiastic and good at the subject, so I'd be a good fit. That quote to me means a lot, as this is probably the first thing I've ever been specifically told that I'm GOOD at, cause I suck at sports and 'fine arts.'

So if anybody can help me choose what to do, I would really appreciate the imput. I will definetly be talking with my mother about it when she gets home from work, but this is kind of a tough decision for me.


Thanks so much for listening to me,
Christine