so I’m currently a community college student and my grades aren’t the best. It’s been hard for me to juggle working full time and going to school full time. I have a 2.7 GPA. my high school GPA was a 3.4. I’m the oldest of 9 children, so money is tight. What is a good school, with good financial aid that will accept me solely on my theater audition. I’m not really interested in Juiliard.
Point Park University in Pittsburgh. It’s a conservatory and your grades are fine and they support community college transfers. It’s a great theatre dance and acting experience. Financial aid of course. I would check it out. I believe they require an audition. At least to get into the major. Look into it as I am not sure how that all works.
I think you’re going to have a hard time trying to find out how individual schools weigh the audition vs other stats like GPA or finding any kind of list of schools that really don’t look at academics for their theater admissions. Now, there are some (Pace is one, UCLA maybe another) where you have to meet the academic admission standards first, and then they will consider your audition/theater resume. So you would want to rule those out. You could find this out on schools’ web pages or by contacting the theater dept. Good luck! Getting into theater schools is hard and very competitive. I can second PPU in the post above great program. and yes go to the theater board there will be more insight there as to who weighs academics less, hopefully.