<p>I don’t live in Ohio… I actually live in Virginia.</p>
<p>Out of the 5 colleges would you say Mount Holyhoke has the best theater program?</p>
<p>*A school that meets 100% would be amazing, but I’m also willing to look at some that just give decent aid.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that that means the school meets 100% of “demonstrated need”. That doesn’t mean that they will give you aid to cover all of your costs. The school will look at your parents income and assets and determine how much they think your parents should pay. Schools don’t care if your family has debt or large morgages, so they may expect your parents to pay an amount that your family can’t pay.</p>
<p>You need to find out what your family’s estimated “family contribution” will be for those kind of schools and ask your parents how much they will pay.</p>
<p>For Theatre, consider Holy Cross which is 40 miles west of Boston.</p>
<p>College of the Holy Cross’ Theatre Department is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Theatre. A HC Alum recently won a Tony Award for Best Direction in a Musical. HC Alum Peter Jankowski ’86 produces Law & Order as president of Wolf Films. HC Alum Ann Dowd ’78 has guest-starred in House and Law & Order and appeared in films, such as Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers.</p>
<p>Last November the department of theatre at the College of the Holy Cross was awarded the New England Theatre Conference’s (NETC) Moss Hart Award for best college play in New England, for its production of My Life with Albertine. This is the second consecutive Moss Hart win for the Holy Cross theatre department.</p>
<p>I see from another thread that you are home-schooled. This can be a plus, can be a minus. At least your rank should be good. :)</p>
<p>Get some help with your math test taking ability. People usually do better on the second try. Then, forget about it. You have enough positives going for you to overcome a poor math score.</p>
<p>Any of the many schools suggested on this thread would be “possible” however, there’s no guarantee. Have a balanced list, including a couple of solid safeties.</p>
<p>I also note from your separate comments that you are looking for a middle of the road school vs ultra-liberal. In that context I’d look at Hamilton, Mt. Holyoke, Kenyon, Skidmore, Conn College. Maybe Williams, though as I said it is very selective.</p>
<p>Ask your parents to use an on-line calculator to determine the kind of need based financial aid you may be eligible for.</p>
<p>And contact Questbridge now!</p>
<p>These are all such helpful suggestions! Thanks guys! :)</p>
<p>Out of the schools people have suggested, academics aside for a moment, which has the best theater program?</p>
<p>You remind me a lot of a girl I know named Evie. But that doesn’t help you at all. So anyway, of those schools, Skidmore and Kenyon have the best theatre programs I think. Bard also has a good program, and your stats match up. I’m not sure what Bard’s rep for financial aid is though…</p>
<p>I definitely think you should look into Skidmore more. Middle of the road, kind of open campus politically, absolutely beautiful, strong academic and theatre programs and I’m pretty sure you have a good chance of being admitted.</p>
<p>As good as all these recommendations may be, I don’t know how any of us would be capable of judging which of them has the “best” theater program. Even if somebody here is a theater professional, I doubt s/he would be intimately familiar with all these schools. As far as I know, there is no ranking system for theater programs. Even if there were, chances are, different programs have different strengths and weaknesses … so a lot depends on your personal preferences for one program style or another. </p>
<p>So, in my opinion, it is especially important that you try to select a few top choices to visit. In making this selection, base it on all the criteria important to you (location, size, etc.), including department reputations. Then you can focus on theater in your visits. Maybe you can schedule some of them to coincide with a show or major rehearsal.</p>
<p>Best theatre programs in New England are Emerson, Wellesley, and Holy Cross.</p>
<p>I know some of you have mentioned that certain schools are SAT optional. I’m wondering, however, does not submitting them hurt your application? Is it better to send my low scores (though hopefully they’ll be higher by next year) or not to send them if I apply to any of those schools?</p>
<p>No, not sending does not hurt at all. If you look in the accepted/denied student threads for SAT optional schools, you’ll often find quite a few stunned students who were denied with 2250+ scores. SAT optional school just don’t care about the SAT that much, and weight other aspects of the app much more.</p>
<p>Okay good! That’s really comforting to hear! The rest of my appication hopefully won’t be too bad… I have good GPA, my EC’s I think are okay (idk…it’s a bit hard to say as a homeschooler who doesn’t have clubs ect.), and I write well, so perhaps I have a shot at some decent school! :)</p>