<p>Hi. So I'm currently a junior and I have a 2240sat/33act and 3.99uw Gpa. I'll be taking 8 or 9 ap's total. My biggest ECs apart from volunteering are definitely music and dance related, and I'd really love to continue dance in college (maybe a minor?)
<p>I suggest posting your question here: [Dance</a> Major - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dance-major/]Dance ”>Dance Major - College Confidential Forums ) The discussion is not limited to dance majors - there are parents and students with info about dance minors and dance as a college EC.</p>
<p>Among the top schools, there are strong dance opportunities at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia (in the Barnard dance department), Duke, Vassar, Smith, and certainly several others.</p>
<p>Thank you! That’s awesome</p>
Hunt
February 7, 2013, 2:09pm
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<p>Yale certainly has dance opportunites. For example:</p>
<p>[Yaledancers</a> Home](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/yaledancers/home.html]Yaledancers ”>http://www.yale.edu/yaledancers/home.html )</p>
<p>cool! thanks again</p>
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monydad:
I said I would post our findings from my daughter’s college search , in case it might be useful to others. So, while I remember, here goes.</p>
<p>She wanted a B.A. program, a liberal arts curriculum highly regarded for academics. But she also wanted (relatively) plentiful dance offerings, particularly ballet. Preferably with the possibility of a dance major or minor; some of these may just have courses, no major though. She previously decided against a BFA program.</p>
<p>She found that the desire for an excellent dance program, particularly with adequate ballet offerings, filtered out the vast majority of academically competitive colleges and universities.</p>
<p>These are the schools she ultimately planned to apply to:
<p>Others that might have qualified as well, but she did not investigate closely for other reasons (mostly location):
<p>The last two not sure how much can be taken outside of BFA.</p>
<p>Other schools she at least glanced at, may have been OK:</p>
<p>Cornell
<p>Columbia has dance offerings just like Barnard’s. Because it IS Barnard’s.; Columbia doesn’t have a department itself.</p>
<p>The Claremont College consortium has some dance offerings, but not ballet so much.</p>
<p>Some CC posters have claimed, variously, that :Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown – had strong dance programs. We couldn’t find evidence of same, except maybe as extracurricular offerings. Princeton recently received a large donation for the arts, so maybe something good will happen there going forward. I made inquiry about this but got no response.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dance-major/291713-academics-dance-ballet.html[/url] ”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dance-major/291713-academics-dance-ballet.html</a></p> ;
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1bie792:
I’ll save you A Lot of time, as we just spent a few months on this. Many colleges focus more on modern. In no particular order, here is the current list:</p>
<p>have high level ballet classes:
<p>within reasonable distance of a cooperative ballet program or company:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12971205-post4.html[/url] ”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12971205-post4.html</a></p> ;