<p>My daughter has applied and some been accepted to the colleges below. She would like to be taught ballet and modern equally or at least close to equally. She wants a strong program and good academics.
Here is the list:</p>
<p>Point Park
Rutgers (mason gross school of the arts)
Mercyhurst
George Mason
Suny Purchase
Goucher College</p>
<p>Any opinions is appreciated.</p>
<p>you may want to head over and post this to the 'arts' forum in the majors section.</p>
<p>For academics, Purchase and Goucher are probably the strongest. </p>
<p>Did she audition for the BFA at Purchase? If not, you may want to find out how much dance is available for non-BFA students. At one school that my d was looking at (not Purchase), they said that non-majors couldn't take dance classes, so it's something worth looking into.</p>
<p>We also looked at Goucher. We were told that, for a major, dancers must get to the advanced level in both ballet and modern, and for a minor, intermediate level in both ballet and modern. So it seems to fit her "equal" criterion. And at Goucher, one can also take classes at Johns Hopins and a few other colleges in the Baltimore area.</p>
<p>Point Park is strictly arts-focused; academics take a back seat.</p>
<p>Are you also interested in some more schools that would be good for dance? You would have to give us some academic information about your daughter, though.</p>
<p>Do a search for dance within this forum and/or the college admissions forum. There have been two great extensive threads within the last eight weeks on dance, schools and programs. There were a number of options mentioned.</p>