irrelephant

Hi all, I'm having a lot of trouble deciding where to go for my M.Ed./M.A.T. in Secondary Education/English this fall. My goal was HGSE, which was my only rejection! Now I feel lost! These are my choices: Vanderbilt/Peabody Boston College/Lynch University of Virginia/Curry University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill I was also accepted to two programs for a M.A. in English: UPenn Northwestern If anyone wants to weigh in on this, I'd really appreciate it. My goal is to eventually found/run my own semi-Catholic but progressive (a real sex education!) all-girls school. Before that, I'm interested in working in all-girls boarding schools and also Catholic schools. Because of the Catholic thing, I'm leaning toward BC, but I know it'd be cheaper to live in Nashville. But I've lived in big cities all my life, so that scares me a little... Financially they are otherwise about equal. I feel like I should have applied to Ed.D. programs instead, since I want to eventually work in both administration and teaching, but it's too late for that now... I only want to work in private education, so I don't need a teaching license necessarily. It's really important to me to feel welcome and as if I'm part of the community. I also prefer younger professors to older ones. Where should I go, and why? (( Thanks for reading this! ))