My daughter is a senior in high school. She has really struggled with the BA vs BFA decision. NOTHING makes her happier than actiing and singing. She says she comes alive when rehearsing, performing, etc and can't imagine not being on a stage. She dances well but it is her area of least confidence. She is a true actor with mobile range funny to heartbreaking, physical to wordlessly expressive, petite blond body type and lovely true soprano with large range . We have tried to get honest opinions from voice coach and directors and seem to hear that she has great potential to succeed on stage. Though who knows?
She is a pretty strong though not perfect academic candidate, with 32 ACT, 5s on AP exams, and a 4.0 unweighted GPA (4.2 weighted) heading into senior year. She loves to write, read, think, explore, which she brings to her characters on stage. She is a pretty strong theatre candidate, with leading roles in high school and community and two in professional theatre. She interviews and auditions very well.
We have been on the site here at College Confidential for a year, and have gotten so much great advice. She had planned for to auditon for BFA programs at the Unified in Chicago, but just lately she is thinking that maybe she should apply for BA programs instead, to continue to liberal arts and well rounded education, and then go on to either MFA or try her hand on professional stage if possible from there. I am a little at a loss to switch gears right now and would love advice/support on some programs to consider. I am also a little worried she will switch gears again and miss some windows. She says she wants to major in Theatre, not MT, so I am also trying to figure out which is the better program at some of these places. And wonder if there are advantages to one major over the other. I am a non theatre person who only knows what I know from taking this journey with her.
The colleges/universities that she has lately been thinking of ( BA) are in no particular order. We live in the midwest but don't have a particular region in mind, though she is sort of against living in the South or Southern California as she likes seasons a lot. She realizes that many of the schools are reaches for all candidates. In general she is not wanting a huge university, though had been very excited about both U Minnesota- Guthrie and NYU when she was back in the BFA thought process. We also wonder about University of Indiana? Boston University? American University? Smaller schools we haven't thought of ?
Brown
Yale
Vassar
Wesleyan
Skidmore
Northwestern
Middlebury
Kenyon
Do any of you have advice for us? A bit of additional padding for her college list? Programs we should cross off as being too small or not strong enought? Programs we haven't thought of? thank you so much for your answers and all the thoughtful posts we have read this past year.
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