Good Theatre Schools?

<p>I took the college Search on here, and these are the schools from that list that made it to my list:
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Penn State
Skidmore
University of California- San Diego
NYU
Syracuse</p>

<p>My Reaches are Juilliard and Oberlin.
Do you guys have any ideas for safeties in/around Michigan? I want my safety schools to be close to where i live. My SAT is 1970 and my ACT is 28.
And Theatre program do you think I'll get into? The search had UMich as my top one, which I'm kind of happy about because I love that school. (My brother went there for Orthodontics and Pediatrics Dentistry a few years back)</p>

<p>You have a nice balance of various schools and programs, including different levels of selectivity. </p>

<p>It seems like you like smaller LACs (Oberlin) as well as bigger schools. That’s not bad - you have almost a year to decide exactly what you want, when you have your answers.</p>

<p>A college visit that comes to my mind that might be very helpful would be to Kalamazoo, to look at Kzoo College and Western Michigan. You’re very likely to get into both academically. Kzoo is a lovely college that would be a very nice “likely” to back up Oberlin. Plus it has Western MI basically across the street to give you more options in cross-registering. Western MI has both an auditioned BFA in performance and a nice-looking BA in Theatre Studies. Sometimes it’s weird going to a school that has both programs (BAs can feel like second-class citizens) but at a big school like that the chances are better that everyone can get what they want. You’d have to check on the details on what the programs entail, and also whether/how you can apply to both. I have no idea where Western MI’s BFA falls on the selectivity scale. </p>

<p>But remember - any auditioned program has very low admission rates - UMich, though, is in the single digits, and maybe Western MI could be more like teens or even twenties - barely better than Oberlin, and way less predictable. UMich has a Bachelor of Theatre Arts, which has no audition, but it has other very stringent application requirements. It is not considered a performance training program.</p>