Hi Everyone! I’m currently a rising sophomore at Drake University and I’m a current BFA Musical Theatre Major. While I can say that I have learned so much for my first year that I wouldn’t have learned by not going, I’m always thinking if Drake if right for me still.
The search for the right MT college my senior year was not what I hoped it would be. Drake was at first my safe school, and it’s now where I’m going.
It’s a mix of the people there that make my environment feel toxic, especially some people in the department. Like for a normal school it’s easy to exclude them but it gets hard when you spend the majority of your time with them in classes and rehearsals. To me, it feels just like high school sometimes. They get too dramatic, and exclude people in public settings like there an object at times. Just calling names and pushing around. It got me very depressed at times just by not having anyone to call close or dependent on, and basically feeling alone at times with no one to go to and trust.
Another thing for me is the switch of professors. Before even coming to the school, the main professor left the department, and At the current moment we have three definite professors for the entire theatre department next year, including the BFA’S, BA’S and even minors. Technically we won’t have a definite new professor till my junior year and a definite group of people till my senior year or when I graduate. Including with one of my favorite professors leaving the department. We had a close pact and I thought it could work but idk.
Another big for me is the dance emphasis is low and students have to spend their independent money to even just take classes and learn. The professors say that it’s gonna grow soon but still the same, nothing will happen till my junior, senior year, or even again after I graduate. In my mind it feels like a waste for that especially that is what I was looking for in my curriculum and what I’m paying for.
At this moment I still am enrolled with the program still, I just don’t know. What is the best decision?
Leave, take Gen Ed’s, raise my ACT and SAT scores because I’m expecting to go back as a Freshman if a BFA, and try again and try to transfer.
Stay in the program and just try to transfer while being there.
Like my mind is saying that It would be better to transfer but I also don’t know if the best choice is stay or go?
I need y’alls help and opinion!
Thank you again!!
Do you need a BFA, or will a BA do?
What is your home state? E.g. Check out U of IA.
How critical is it for you that you have an MT major? What about dance/voice/theater in general?
There should be some useful ideas for you in the College majors forum. Spend some time there.