<p>My daughter is a senior in high school who will be applying to B.F.A. Acting programs at NYU, Emerson, Ithaca, Elon, Michigan, USC, DePaul, Bostun U and Carnegie Mellon. She is currently attending a summer pre-college program at one of these schools. She is concerned that the pre-college courses are "beneath her" (students are being taught how to stand when you deliver a monologue and spending a lot of time on breathing). She wants to "scratch" this school off her list based on the pre-college program (although she is having a lot of fun). She really wants to make sure she is at a school where she will be learning right from the beginning. I suspect that the freshman year in any B.F.A. Acting program is going to focus on these basics. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for her she has had a lot of acting training. Can anyone provide information on the types of courses that freshman seeking a B.F.A. in Acting (not MT) would be taking at NYU, Emerson, Ithaca, Elon, Michigan, USC, DePaul, Boston U and Carnegie Mellon? She also has an interest in Northwestern and Muhlenberg. I am trying to gauge whether they are all at the same level so she doesn't have false expectations of what she will be getting out of an acting program. Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi and welcome to College Confidential. I highly recommend that you post this inquiry on College Confidential’s Theater/Drama Majors Forum where there are lots of students and parents much more familiar with BFA Acting programs than this general Parent Forum. Here is a link to that forum:</p>
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<p>I will add that I don’t know which pre-college program your D is attending and they are not all equal. That said, my D has a BFA from NYU/Tisch and while she had lots of training and experience before college, the training at NYU was quite challenging and her peers also came in with lots of experience.</p>
<p>One more note…you ask the “types of courses” in certain freshman year BFA Acting programs and this is easy to find out as most of these programs post their BFA curriculum for each of the four years on their theater department pages.</p>
<p>Thanks. I re-posted to the forum you recommended.</p>