Acceptance Letter

I received a letter in the mail the other day that stated I was accepted to the University of St. Thomas!  After months of trying to figure out what I wanted to do after Normandale, I finally have a plan in place.  When I started attending Normandale community college six years ago, my goal was just to graduate with my Associates in communications.  I didn’t want to go on afterwards and I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do; I just knew I wanted to do something with communications and public speaking.

Earlier this year I got really interested in public relations and was thinking about getting my degree in that.  After looking at a few colleges I decided upon going to Metro state University in Minneapolis to get my bachelors in communications going down the track of public relations.  I got accepted, but after reviewing the different times of their classes I found that they wouldn’t be appropriate for my schedule.  That’s when I started looking into other colleges and degree programs within communications.

Most of them closer to me had communication degrees in which I would have to choose a specific track, say public relations, mass communications etc.  I thought long and hard about whether or not I really wanted to go work at a PR firm and have that be my sole degree.  Upon looking, I noticed St. Thomas’s degree which is Communications and Journalism with no specific track.  By having my bachelors in that, it covers a broad spectrum of jobs including PR, public speaking, writing for a magazine, etc.  That’s how I decided on applying to St. Thomas.  It was a lengthy application that included writing an essay to get in.  I also had to send them both my high school and college transcripts.

I’m very excited that I now have a plan in place and a great college to go to.  There’s just one thing that might be semi-difficult to get used to at first is that they don’t have any online classes so I would have to attend every one of them at the school.  I’m hoping it doesn’t take me too long to finish the program; my goal is three years.  Then, the only thing I have to figure out next is what type of job I want within the communications field.

Jenni