CMU or NYU?

<p>Sorry Alwaysamom! I wasn't clear - I was referring to the music/voice faculty and only repeating what I was told by the powers that be at Steinhardt. If they were incorrect, I apologize.</p>

<p>Let me preface this by saying I haven't read all 4 pages of this thread, so I'm not sure if this point has been brought up yet...</p>

<p>Anywyas, I took a workshop at my summer theatre program from a woman who had been on the faculty at CMU for several years now. One of the main differences she pointed out is that because NYU admits so many more people, the class sizes are much bigger, as opposed to CMU where the classes are small. NYU might have up to 48 kids in an acting class which makes it very tough to get individual attention. CMU only has 18 kids in your major, and that 18 is split up into separate acting classes, so there you will be getting MUCH more individual attention.</p>

<p>As far as academics go, CMU MT is a conservatory with very little liberal arts. However, CMU Acting is not a conservatory and reqires 7 non-theatre elective per year, of which you can choose academic classes, or silly classes like "Jogging for fitness" therefore you can get a top notch theatre education, along with hand chosen academic electives. Also, in CMU acting you are required to take voice and dance classes which are taught by the same teachers at the MT program. I don't know anything about NYU academics, sorry.</p>

<p>Hope this helps, and was not too repetetive</p>

<p>iheartMTT,</p>

<p>I'm sorry but what that woman told you is not the case at all. I have a daughter who is a junior at Tisch. Although it's true that NYU's program is larger than CMU's, there is NO acting class with 48 students in it. My D has never had a studio acting class with more than 16 or 17 kids, maximum. I can assure you that individual attention has not been a problem for her, or anyone else that she knows at Tisch. It's a shame that someone who is in a position as an instructor in such a good program as CMU would be dispensing such factually inaccurate information to potential students.</p>

<p>Thank you all for continuing to post on this thread! I'd like to chime back in now, it's been a while I know, but Senior year is stressful. I'm not sure if any of you read my other post in which I recapped my college tour so I'll give the short version here..</p>

<p>I toured CMU, UMich, Indiana, and CCM one week...and the next week i flew to New York and toured NYU tisch and steinhardt, Manhattan, Mannes, and Juilliard. Then I flew to Chicago and toured Northwestern.</p>

<p>CCM is now my #1 choice for both musical theatre and voice, it's really amazing. Indiana, Manhattan, Mannes, and Steihardt I was not very impressed with for one reason or another. The order of the others I think will have to be: NYU tisch, CMU, Juilliard, UMich, and NWern. I was very impressed with all of those schools as well....there are several others on my list, but those were my tops.</p>

<p>If you have any comments/suggestions to make, please continue to post!</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Echoing AlwaysAMom....while Tisch has more kids in the program than several other selective MT programs, the size of the actual classes is quite similar to most of the other programs and the ratio of faculty to student is as well. The kids in CAP are broken up into sections for vocal and acting classes. They keep the same section (similarly sized to other programs) for several classes. The dance classes are broken into four levels for the freshmen alone. For ballet, jazz and tap, there are four leveled groups....there is placement into each level by discipline. This placement for dance as well as formation of sections for the other studio classes just happened. For example, my D said that in the highest tap class, there are LESS than 20 kids. I'll have to ask her the number in her section for the other classes but I believe it will be similar, and SURELY nothing like you were told by someone outside the program. </p>

<p>The difference is that the program itself as a whole is bigger, yes. The actual classes are not. There is obviously many more faculty in the program as well.</p>

<p>IHeartMT...I encourage you to visit the programs and talk directly to faculty and administrators and current students to get the accurate information before making any critical decisions about programs.
Susan</p>

<p>"However, CMU Acting is not a conservatory"</p>

<p>Incorrect - the School of Drama is a conservatory. The Acting program is in the School of Drama, it is a conservatory program. Yes, 7 electives are required (one per semester), but that doesn't mean it isn't a conservatory program.</p>

<p>Wow! Thank you so much for that information! I'm surprised to hear that. Maybe her information was outdated? Or just simply misinformed. Nevertheless she put on a great workshop! hehehe, thanks again for the correction.</p>

<p>wow ok just read all the other posts to my reply, I'll definitely make sure I proof read my posts more carefully. I apologize for my comment on CMU acting not being a conservatory. I did not word that correctly, I knew it was part of the conservatory, I was just stressing the fact that you get more academics in the acting program. Sorry, just thought I'd impart what I thought I knew, but apparently I know nothing about CMU or NYU and all of you are much more informed. I'll look at them for myself and make sure I don't rub anyone the wrong way by posting false information. good luck college searching, although you don't need it because you seem to know everything there is to know about MT.</p>