<p>Which schools fit the bill? I just had an English teacher (who was accepted into, but did not attend Yale) tell me that Yale didn't have the best actual acting programs. She commended them on their theatre history, but not on actual acting. Any suggestions of top schools with good/great theatre departments?</p>
<p>Northwestern</p>
<p>From my college era, Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern. Yale’s dept is graduate only.</p>
<p>No, they have an undergrad. It’s not well-known yet, though.</p>
<p>You need to make sure you look for schools you can afford.
Your stats make Yale, Northwestern and CMU extremely unlikely. Have you asked your parents how much they are willing to pay?</p>
<p>Muhlenburg.</p>
<p>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Lawrence University in Appleton, WI also has a good theater department</p>
<p>Julliard (great for acting, not so good for academics)
NYU</p>
<p>My D also applied to Loyola and DePaul in Chicago.</p>
<p>Fordham - Lincoln Center (small theater major, by audition), Skidmore, Muhlenberg</p>
<p>Do you want a BFA or a BA? That can determine the type of program you look for. There are lots of good ideas here [Theater/Drama</a> Majors - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/]Theater/Drama”>Theater/Drama Majors - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>muhlenberg…and it is an amazing all around school!</p>
<p>Yale has an undergraduate drama major, but it is not affiliated with the Yale Drama School (which is the graduate program) most think of when talking about drama at Yale.</p>
<p>Because Yale and Northwestern admissions are application, not audition based, your grades and test scores likely need to be much higher in order to be competitive for admission.</p>
<p>Non-auditioned, more liberal arts based programs that you might want to look at include Muhlenberg, Skidmore, Kenyon, Vassar, CT College, American. </p>
<p>Auditioned programs that require a larger number of courses outside of the major than some others conservatory programs, and that look to be within your academic stats range include NYU, Elon, Penn State, James Madison, UMichigan, Syracuse (if a student follows BS curriculum rather than the BFA).</p>
<p>There are many others in both the above categories… those are off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Admissions to CMU drama would be based more heavily on your audition, than academics and test scores, so you are likely within academic range there to be a Drama major. The audition admit rate is around 2% - 5%.</p>
<p>Are you looking for more liberal arts based schools that have strong departments, or more conservatory based programs that happen to be on larger college campuses, a combination of both kinds of schools? You are in NC, are you looking at in-state options, or other southern school options closer to home? </p>
<p>If I remember correctly you are applying for the UNCSA HS program for next academic year. The college level conservatory is also very much worth looking at. </p>
<p>I edited after the post below… the links to UNCSA are posted below. 
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<p>Given the OP’s stats and location, UNCSA is an obvious suggestion. At about $17K per year, it is FAR cheaper than all of the above suggestions barring substantial financial aid. </p>
<p>[University</a> of North Carolina School of the Arts | Drama](<a href=“http://www.uncsa.edu/drama/]University”>School of Drama - UNCSA)</p>
<p>I want to be able to double major in political science, and I’d like to point out that my stats are from the fall of my sophomore year. I will hopefully bring up my GPA (with the tons of APs I can take) and raise my SAT and ACT scores, so that top schools will not be out of my reach. I’m currently a junior, and won’t be taking my SATs until December.
So, UNCSA is out (except for their high school program, I’m applying for that) and so are most other conservatories, correct?
And there are really no cost constraints.</p>