Try majoring in english, history, psychology, sociology, physical education, or arts, I hear they lead to a good future earning potential.
Baylor is not a public school. Texas A&M dropped their journalism department in 2001 or something. Unless you're super rich, you should try juco or something first. If you do well, then you could go to UT if that's what you aspire for. If you don't care much about money, education, and goals yet, and just want to have fun, join a frat or a bunch of big organizations and you'll be fine.
Go to a community college for your first two years. You'll save a lot of money (probably for your parents) and get acclimated to the homework/exam schedule. Join the junior college honor association (PTK or something) and get a transfer scholarship when you go to a university. Also, I don't believe Texas A&M has a journalism program any longer. And every college campus in Texas has attractive women.
Looks like you have all your priorities straight, and already have impeccable literary skills. You will go far.
Journalism is tough if you wanna make a decent living out of it. I am not sure how talented you are. If you are entirely serious about it, you should start a blog and update it regularly about a certain sports team. I'm a student at A&M currently and yes, we do lack te nightlife that Austin and Houston has to offer, but there's still plenty of stuff to do and so many organizations to get involved and meet people. Plenty of women too. Also, the sports here are amongst the best. I think we won 3 or 4 national championships last year. Track and field boys and girls are 3peats. Women's basketball is elite. Men's basketball and football are on the rise. But if you're sticking to journalism, aim for UT as a to choice. Business or engineering, heavily consider A&M.
No reason whatsoever to spend out of state tuition on Oklahoma State. I only went there for summer math camps in high school (thanks Mom), but Texas State is a lower tier school in a small-ish town, so you lose on both ends. My older brother got a communications degree from there, even though pursuing an acting career in his early thirties and getting kidney failure didn't help he's never been able to get anything out of that education. If you want to go to school in San Antonio, try to get into Trinity; otherwise pass on UTSA unless you just really want a change of pace. A&M is an underrated college with an overrated football program, but you really need to visit College Station outside of football season, away from the pretense of a school-managed tour/visit, and see if you can really handle being there.
If you want to spend tons of money and live in a peach pit, go to Baylor. If you want to join a frat and have a lifelong membership to a cultish, racist pedigree, go to TAMU. If you wan't the best education per dollar spent, go to UT. If you want to experience the college life and get laid the most, by the hottest, most accessible, most eager, demographic of young females rebelling against their parents/ex-boyfriends/expectations and get a decent education, go to Texas State.
I'm in the same boat, although I'm not looking at any schools in that area. I assume you're staying nearby?
this... i think you may be missing the point of college(outside of american pie, van wilder, and whatever else image they give of what college is supposed to be like, it is an educational institution and you'd be surprised how often people just overlook that as some sort of fun social camp to supposedly make mistakes, I think they are really selling themselves short)
Texas State has an excellent journalism program. And the best ratio of females to males in the state..... DD
According to the Princeton Review, Texas A&M is one of the best college values in the country: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/best-value-colleges.htm According to the Wall Street Journal, they are the number 2 college in the nation for job recruiters: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/best-value-colleges.htm On a personal note, both my wife and I graduated from Texas A&M and have had very successful careers. As a hiring manager in my field, I mainly hire from Texas Universities. Longhorns and Aggies are usually considered equally in the recruiting process, for what its worth. I personally have several Longhorns working for me and they make decent employees. Aggies the same. Once in the workplace, its six in one hand, half a dozen in he other. It depends on the PERSON at that point.
Then avoid A&M. No more journalism department. They have a Communications major, but it is basically English. Not bad, but you need connections for that business. Looks like you are looking pretty much only in state, which puts University of Texas by far ahead of nearly every other in-state school. Rice is not bad. If your good enough to get into those schools, you should really look out-of-state to Northwestern, Syracuse, Georgia, Indiana, Morehouse, Penn St., Boston Uni because you should be able to get into schools as well.
