<p>Any suggestions for good BA or BFA acting programs for a talented student with average grades and test scores?</p>
<p>Where do you live? Where are you willing to go?</p>
<p>Preference is west coast, but willing to consider anywhere in the country.</p>
<p>Excellent… What about the CSU schools. Fullerton, SF State. Longbeach? All very good. CSUs tend to have lower test scores and grade requirements.<br>
Chapman is an option.
I’m not sure about Loyola Marymount, but look there.
Cal Arts doesn’t care about grades at all.</p>
<p>Have you looked at Northridge (CSUN) or Sac State (CSUS)? They both have strong theater programs.</p>
<p>Do you have your A-G requirements?</p>
<p>Hmmm…Marymount Manhattan?</p>
<p>I am actually inquiring on behalf of my daughter. She will have all of the A-G requirements, but she is not a California resident. We will look into all of the schools you have mentioned. Additional recommendations will be appreciated.</p>
<p>I just got my second rejection letter from the two schools that I really wanted to go to due to mediocre grades and SAT but I’m a very serious acting student and want to go ANYwhere I can get into at this late date (I graduate in June and I don’t know where to look where the deadlines aren’t already passed) I’m checking out Cal Arts - they’ve extended their deadline but it looks like the acting program is closed - I’ll call them tomorrow. Any advice anyone can give me will be most appreciated!!</p>
<p>Have you looked at the deadlines for the California State colleges? CSUN and CSUS?</p>
<p>Cal state schools - just looked up web sites - freshman deadlines March 1. Darn. Any other suggestions?? THanks</p>
<p>Same here!! i’m scrambling for some quality acting programs on the east coast that’ll accecpt students this late. Anyone thoughts would be most appreciated!! Is anyone familiar with Virginia Commonwealth University? I was accepted there, but not sure i love their program yet.</p>
<p>DePaul, CCM Drama, SUNY Purchase are all programs that your audition overrides academic merit. I’ve also heard that Carnegie Mellon is 80% based on your audition, surprisingly. These aren’t on the west coast obviously, but they are options. Good luck :)</p>
<p>Look at community colleges - espc. if they have large perfroming arts centers. College of the Canyons in Valencia (same town as Cal Arts) offers an AA in Theatre and has beautiful facilities. They also have a UCLA transfer program. Many of my son’s friends are going that route :)</p>
<p>If you decided on a trip to the NYC area for SUNY Purchase
then you might as well try Juilliard. They make it fairly clear
that grades are not really that important. You would be
competing not only with HS graduates, but a fair number
of college graduates as well. But as I said, if you’re making
the trip…</p>
<p>Are there ways other than word of mouth to find out what emphasis a school places on grades and test scores in making admissions decisions to an acting program? In general, is this something that the school will tell you if you ask directly?</p>
<p>A related question – is it safe to assume, as a general proposition, that BFA programs are less concerned about grades and test scores than BA programs?</p>
<p>Juilliard say its pretty much straight out on their website. I think if you ask a school
about admission policies and grades for their theater program I thnk most would
give you an honest answer.</p>
<p>Regarding the BA/BFA question, no I don’t think that’s is at all a safe assumption. Sadly
it’s a different story everywhere.</p>
<p>Lastly, while there are a number of programs more concerned with your audition than your high school grades you can be sure if you are admitted to a BFA program they will most definitely care about your college grades.</p>
<p>Juilliard is nearly impossible to be accepted to straight out of high school. I believe someone posted that this year, only two high school students were taken in the class. I has a 2% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I know of at least one person admitted out of high school this year and two who made the wait list. Anything not attemped is impossible.</p>
<p>Actually, this year I believe Juilliard invited more high school seniors than ever before to its call-back weekend; and from there I know of 2 high school kids who actually made the final wait-list. So you never know.</p>