BA Theater

College Majors Theater/Drama Majors
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<p>Your points are excellent, gibby, and I agree with you partly.</p>

<p>I won’t have a problem if my D gets a BFA because there is just so much variability in life all around. I have a BA in English. 5 years after I graduated, I got a Master’s in Social Work. I was very happy with both degrees when I got them, and during the past 25 years I’ve used skills from both of them on a regular basis.</p>

<p>The only disagreement I’d have with you is that my undergrad degree, what I studied, and what I majored in, had no effect whatsoever on my ability to train in my grad degree. All they cared about was that I had an undergrad degree and that I had done well in it, that my GREs were good, and I had good recommendations - which came almost entirely from the human service jobs I’d held in those 5 years, not from my undergrad professors.</p>

<p>I think people can make anything work out if they really want to. It sounds like your D is doing what she wants, and I’m truly happy for her. I agree, too, that debt is very scary - but don’t forget that there are many, many BA degrees that don’t promise any kind of significant income (remember my English degree?) and people make them work out in very surprising ways.</p>

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<p>Just for the sake of argument, my H is a doctor, and my biology-oriented D1 is reluctant to pursue THAT career because of all of the downsides she’s seen over the years!</p>

<p>These kids will make their own way, using a lot of examples and looking at their own wants and needs, too.</p>

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<p>A major in Theater with a minor is something else of interest sounds like a good plan wisdomsomehow. My S knows he will have to work in the theater, film, entertainment industry just because he can’t stay away. There are so many schools to compare. I have heard Florida is good, Miami too but we definately wont get there. It looks like NY area, LA, Chicago or Toronto are the cities he wants, now to find the campus/program he is comfortable with. I actually think he would really like the Fordham LC drama program a lot, that may be worth a second visit in winter when the students are in their shorts!</p>