<p>I've been quite absent from CC and due to many recent events in my personal life, I've been obliged to change some of my plans regarding my college list.</p>
<p>First of all, I will audition only for some colleges in the U.K., except for CalArts. What do you think of the list?</p>
<ol>
<li>Central School of Speech and Drama</li>
<li>Royal Academy of Dramatic Art</li>
<li>The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art</li>
<li>University of the Arts London</li>
<li>Royal Conservatoire of Scotland</li>
<li><p>(perhaps) Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama</p></li>
<li><p>California Institute of the Arts</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I do not know enough things about the programs of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama or the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. If anyone has some first-hand info, please PM me or post on this thread.</p>
<p>Also, I know 7 colleges may not seem like enough, but unfortunatelly this is my limit (I may not even be able to apply to CalArts). Do you know of any other good colleges in the U.K.? Do locals have more chance than international students?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>We looked at RWCMD because my daughter’s acting coach knew of the school, and because she was able to do a drop in at the unifieds. My daughter was waitlisted there (but ended up accepting an offer at an American school.) I spoke to a number of American parents who students (for friends of their students) attended RWCMD and came away with a strongly positive sense of the program. It is a conservatory, like Juilliard, but a 3-year program. From the reports I heard, the training is excellent. They take very few Americans. The only negative thing I heard was from a friend, not in theater or art, who happens to live in Cardiff and says the weather is pretty horrible-- you will constantly be wet.</p>
<p>Thank you glassharmonica! Well, the weather over here is terrible as well (we call our city “land of the drizzle”), so I guess I can live with that :)</p>
<p>Umm, it should be mentioned that residents of the UK are generally in the habit of carrying umbrellas with them every day, so they don’t get wet. Perhaps this is a difficult habit for Americans to pick up? But on the other hand, the frequent rains may be what drives the people of the UK indoors so often to places like theatres, and which is why theatre is so much more succesful in the UK. Just speculating.</p>
<p>Thanks, KEVP, I had not heard of this thing you call “umbrella”. ;)</p>
<p>i’m interesting too… I’m currently an Italian student and I’d take Communications at a University in U.K( I don’t know yet what). I love the Theater but in Italy is not consider as important as in England. I would do a College of drama and Theater, I’d want to study screenplay and everything is linked with it, but all colleges I saw on internet are too expensive for me and for this reason I’m looking for a University of Communications . Anyway I’d love to know what you’ll choose and what is the best.</p>