<p>Does anyone know anything about Kansas, Iowa, U of Missouri Kansas City, or Illinois? We are looking at these due to location. Are they competitive? Hard to get into? How about for boys? Are there any others in this region we're not thinking about? What about "safety schools" in this region? Thanks!!</p>
<p>UIUC is pretty competitive, not like top privates, but still fairly competitive. This is more the case for Engineering. They are enrolling more OOS now than when I attended- best thing would be to go to their admissions website. What really makes a difference is what you want to study and how much tuition you will have to pay. UIUC has the largest Greek system in the world. If you live within driving distance, I’d recommend a campus visit.</p>
<p>U of I isn’t that hard besides engineering </p>
<p>Loyola is a good not that competitive school</p>
<p>U of Chicago
Northwestern</p>
<p>Top tier schools</p>
<p>Uw Madison is a great school not to hard to get into </p>
<p>Ann arbor kind of hard to get into </p>
<p>Putting your stats would help</p>
<p>I think TannaW is asking about dance programs at these schools. What type of dance interests you? UIUC is more modern focused, Iowa and UMKC are known for ballet as well. Other programs in the Midwest that might interest you are Indiana, Butler, University of Michigan, Wisconsin both at Madison and Milwaukee and Western Michigan University. A “Safety” school for dance might be Northern Illinois University, which has a very good dance program with a ballet emphasis which does not require an audition.</p>
<p>quilll’s list is good. I would second the Peck School at UW-Milwaukee.</p>
<p>Thank you, yes I was wondering how competitive the dance departments at these schools are, meaning how hard is it to get accepted at each one. Specifically for boys. Main interest is contemp, but loves all kind of dance and if was limited to location would be happy with whatever emphasis. Safety school meaning a good back up that is easy to get into the dance department in case he didn’t get into the others.</p>
<p>One thing that has been helpful to me (early in the search process, and with a girl) is to look at videos of dance productions at some of the schools we have been reading about. I can pretty quickly get a sense of the talent and training of the dancers and whether my daughter would be a competitive candidate (and whether she’d like the kinds of dance the schools are doing).</p>
<p>You can also look at which programs are audition-based versus open. I believe some that are audition-based allow students from other majors to take class. Of course, strong programs won’t want dancers who aren’t great, so there might not be a lot of overlap between departments that are “easy to get into” and those that are actually any good. Hopefully others can offer their viewpoints as well.</p>
<p>Another option for your son might be to choose a college not based on its own dance program, but studios/companies in the city that it is located in. Just a thought.</p>