<p>I know this is the MT thread, but a lot of you seem to have knowlage on all sorts of theatre I would apprecaite any help/advice...</p>
<p>I am a first year actress in a program that has a big cut system so I am re-auditioning to about 5 schools for next year just in case. I want to be prepared for everything and that includes being prepared in case I don't get in to any of those schools. That brings me to my question,</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any good non-audition schools that offer a decent acting/theatre program (since it is non-audition it would be BA instead of BFA, I realize). I have heard that there are some good Theatre Arts programs that allow you to focus after some time and I was curious if that was true.</p>
<p>Since a non-audition school doesn't take the talent aspect in I shoudl tell you my stats (basically yes, yale may have a great theatre program but I could not get into yale and I know it! Just an example, I think yale is probably audition...not sure about undegrad, but grad def...)
HIGH SCHOOL
3.8 (unweighted)
27 act
a couple ap's/honors
Lots of ec's:
Drama (in school and community...lots of both)
track, captian, 4 years, state many times
enc for newspaper 2 years
photog for yearbook
music masters choir
octagon club (service)
youth group-> mission trips
forensics 2 years
spanish club 1 year
national honors society 2 years
girls state rep
w club</p>
<p>The in college I'll end up with above a 3.5 for this year and I'll have taken a bunch of theatre classes and a few general (at my school it will equal 70 credits, not sure how that trasfers but most people at me school end up with about 50, so it still is a lot)</p>
<p>Check out the thread on non-audition schools, there's lots of options. I'd recommend referring to a college publication (like U.S. News and World Reports 2006 edition of The Best Colleges to get a feel for the entrance stats (gpa, SAT scores, etc.) to determine which non-audition schools you'd be eligible for. Especially since many of the B.A. programs are more academic than some of the B.F.A.'s</p>
<p>Thanks...I looked through that thread and it was hard to find acting/theatre programs, they were mostly MT ones, that's why I started this one...but I will continue to read through that.</p>
<p>I'm not too worried about the academics because I was able to get into pretty decent schools last year (madison, NYU, ect.) but I'll take that in, thanks again!</p>
<p>Yes, CPK the reason most of the programs discussed on this thread are MT is because this is the MT forum. There's a theater/drama thread on the Arts Major forum. </p>
<p>My son is not into MT, but there's more lively discussion here which is why I go back and forth between the two.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions, those links are great!!! That was exactly what I was looking for.</p>
<p>I know this is a MT thread (sounds familiar-oh that's the first sentence of this thread!) but like you said it there is a lot more activity on this one than the theatre/drama one and there are a ton of people on this one that not only understand MT but also straight drama, I knew posting here would get more activity, but I tried to explain that in the first post...</p>