I have seen a lot of her on Youtube and am impressed by her poise, her elegance, her wittiness, the way she carries herself, and the maturity she exhibits on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Such a rare talent cannot be judged by the normal standards of GPA and SAT in college applications. Her potential is unlimited, and if she is lucky (or shall I say if the school is lucky) she may be able to get into some Ivies and other top schools.
Some on this board advise her to apply to journalism schools but I have have a second thought about it. First of all, journalism is not the same as mass communication, and is totally different from entertainment. The core of journalism is to perform impartial and unsensational reporting and the most challenging part of journalism is investigative journalsim (Wall Street Journal's report on Theranos is a good example). What Grace has done on the the Ellen DeGeneres Show thus far is more on the mass communication or entertainment side than on journlism. I am sure Grace can be an outstanding journalist given her excellence in humanitics and her unparallelled skills in oral communication, if that is where her passion lies.
However she has to ask herself if she is truly passionate about journlism or her heart is in mass commincation or entertainment. If it is the latter, then the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a better fit for her than the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, for an example. True journalism demands a lot of investigating, writing, and editing on the background and it is mostly not glamourous.
My kid was accepted by Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism last year and what I learned is that the AOs and the interviewer valued the true passion for journlism and the love/ability to write way more than GPA/SAT.
公校mizzou 在顶上，要申请，Syracuse 做safety，这个一定能进。
其他的私校想申请就申请，不要多想。
要是我娃，本科上mizzou，硕士读疙瘩，没有更好的组合。
mizzou的新闻就是ucb 的eecs
叙拉古大学教书？
就知道他校新闻很好，mizzou 更好就是了。
mizzou是新闻学的圣殿吧。
娃没有走演艺的道路。比较理智。
我们可怜的娃填了一堆演艺界的学校，因为太不容易录取了，又填报了一堆非演艺的专业。。。申请工作量紫檀肯定前列。。。因为每一个演艺的学校都要交各种玩意，有的给了一个题目让你现拍一个短片。。。这个一下子两个星期就进去了。
专业随时可变，特别是你娃选的这个专业。这个阶段，特别对于文科娃，大学整体应该大于专业
上出来还是难。付出太多。
我ner还是一个很有趣的青年，那天把他所有的理工科的EC扒拉掉，剩下的是一个perfect的政治学或者国际关系的resume。。。十大活动仍然有板有眼。。。
不能戴有色眼镜看我嘛。。。
以后可以进law school，挺好的prep 和political science一样。
只是早申的差不多了。。。
不需要象cs一样申请一堆target州大。。。
不成再把T20里边喜欢的都扫一扫。请Ellen写个信，T5就成了。其实想办法去找一下，小孩子升学，没准儿就给写了。
結果自己小孩還要走旁門左道去CMU和USC
未必一定要排名多高。
top 10的LAC，Journalism很强， 在东岸， 白人富家孩子很多， 所以乐意招西岸的亚裔孩子。其它好处是， LAC里好转专业，此校校友network很强， 万一新闻专业的喜好有变化， 这个学校的商科经济出来进花街及东南部金融业就业有历史传统。最后，该校还有个merit-based的JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP，full-ride。另外， 该校的法学院很强， 文科孩子万一以后想读law, 也可以有个好的exposure和training。
就是请老板写封推荐信还不需要老板介绍资源和托人情。没准儿新鲜就给写了。
本科能上好学校尽量上。尤其是文科。
我校有过类似的，还有高大上的推荐信，都没有特别的加分。。。
不是所有人都能做到的。小丫头很不错的。
The Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia
One of the best jorunalism schools in the US.
Grace is an amazing and truly talented girl.
I have seen a lot of her on Youtube and am impressed by her poise, her elegance, her wittiness, the way she carries herself, and the maturity she exhibits on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Such a rare talent cannot be judged by the normal standards of GPA and SAT in college applications. Her potential is unlimited, and if she is lucky (or shall I say if the school is lucky) she may be able to get into some Ivies and other top schools.
Some on this board advise her to apply to journalism schools but I have have a second thought about it.
First of all, journalism is not the same as mass communication, and is totally different from entertainment. The core of journalism is to perform impartial and unsensational reporting and the most challenging part of journalism is investigative journalsim (Wall Street Journal's report on Theranos is a good example). What Grace has done on the the Ellen DeGeneres Show thus far is more on the mass communication or entertainment side than on journlism. I am sure Grace can be an outstanding journalist given her excellence in humanitics and her unparallelled skills in oral communication, if that is where her passion lies.
However she has to ask herself if she is truly passionate about journlism or her heart is in mass commincation or entertainment. If it is the latter, then the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a better fit for her than the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, for an example. True journalism demands a lot of investigating, writing, and editing on the background and it is mostly not glamourous.
My kid was accepted by Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism last year and what I learned is that the AOs and the interviewer valued the true passion for journlism and the love/ability to write way more than GPA/SAT.
Good luck, Grace!
Be all you can be!