<p>My rising junior daughter was just accepted to these three pre-college programs. She is very excited - but also confused! Can anyone share their personal experiences with these programs or insight into the differences, pros & cons, etc? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Hi, I my sophomore daughter is accepted to BADA and TheatreBridge for this summer and we are asking ourselves the same questions you were asking in your post two years ago. Which, if any, did your daughter attend and can you share her experience with whichever one she did? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>LatteGirl probably doesn’t come to this site anymore, sorry. You can try PMing her though.</p>
<p>Thanks very much!</p>
<p>My daughter went to BADA for fall semester abroad, she loved it accomodation (I think they use same for summer program) was nice central London and all the staff took great care of the students</p>
<p>Hi COtheatre,</p>
<p>Sorry, dreambelle was correct i’m not here very often!</p>
<p>2 years ago my daughter chose TheatreBridge and LOVED it. At the time she was quite torn and really thought she’d get a lot out of both, which I’m sure is true.</p>
<p>In the end, since she was happy either way, we pushed her over the edge to TheatreBridge since it was less expensive than BADA, she’d traveled abroad the summer before, and I wanted her to get a feel for Brown (I’m an alum, also theatre).</p>
<p>TheatreBridge seemed intense yet nurturing, collaborative, independence-building, and tremendous fun. The program director, Mark Cohen, is a wonderful guy and Brown alum himself. My daughter particularly thrived creating devised works - an obvious key difference vs BADA, which is of course centered on classics. </p>
<p>She enjoyed Brown so much that she also returned the following summer for their 3-week Leadership Institute’s Documentary & Social Action program, which she also enjoyed tremendously - though thought should have been as long as TheatreBridge!</p>
<p>My daughter has maintained many friendships from that initial summer, speaking and getting together with both the students and college apprentices often. The high school students she participated with have gone on to, or are going on to, schools such as Brown, Northwestern, Michigan, NYU-Tisch and Emerson, among others. My daughter will be a freshman at Oberlin in the fall (her first choice!).</p>
<p>If you have any other questions, feel free to pm me, or to pose them here - I’m now subscribed to this thread, so i should reply in a more timely manner! Good luck and congrats on two great choices!</p>
<p>Thanks Lattegirl,</p>
<p>We really appreciate your thoughts. In the end my daughter chose BADA for this summer, for perhaps some of the same reasons your daughter chose TheatreBridge for her second year (after having gone abroad the summer before). My daughter is a classics (Shakespeare) fanatic, it’s her first summer so the shorter BADA program is a bit less risky, and Oxford is Oxford. I could see TheatreBridge or another broad-based U.S. program as a choice for next year. thanks again.</p>
<p>Interesting that Mark Cohen is the director of TheatreBridge. He is a theatre professor at Boston University.</p>
<p>CO: sounds like your daughter made the right choice for herself, which is the name of the game. I should have mentioned in my last post - everyone we’ve spoken to who had done BADA was completely thrilled!</p>
<p>NJ: yes, that’s Mark! Seems to have a very close longstanding relationship with all the Brown theatre profs including the dept head. I believe some of the TheatreBridgers have also gone on to BU’s drama conservatory.</p>
<p>My son had Mark as a professor his freshman year at BU. All the freshmen really like him, I think.</p>
<p>BU has a program that includes a good bit of devised theatre, and I was interested to see that TheatreBridge does too.</p>