I’m interested in choreography as a career, but I got injured and I recovered but I’m still not as good as I used to be, so I don’t think I’ll be good enough to audition and stuff.
I want a school that has a dance major that doesn’t require an audition, I’m already looking at Wash U in st louis, Amherst College, and Northwestern. I want a school very good academically, too, not just dance-wise.
It depends what you are looking for. Muhlenberg’s dance program is VERY conservative. It is not open minded, which is super strange for a modern dance program. Also the college has a regional mind set. There are students from all over but the college does odd things like closing down completely for a few 3 or 4 day weekends - asking students to get special permission to stay in the dorms those weekends and pay extra ($30 a day) to stay there - with no food service and no restaurants in walking distance.
@bookworm3456 I am not sure you can call the dorm closure policy for breaks at Muhlenburg “a regional mind set.” I went to Swarthmore college, which i don’t think is generally considered “regional” and they closed the dorms for all breaks, with no option even to pay to stay. No one seemed to think that this was unusual at a small LAC. And Muhlenburg doesn’t require those who live more than 300 miles away to pay anything to stay during breaks, or anyone who needs to remain on campus due to a sport, theater activity, internship, or research. Obviously at a larger school, having the dorms open during breaks is much more common, but I don’t think it is so odd at smaller schools. But perhaps times have changed since I was in college!
@zebrarunner What kind of breaks do you mean? Semester break, yes. Fall break and spring break, no. Especially just a four day weekend-- including Thanksgiving, no. I know that Oberlin and Wellesley do not close-- except at the end of the semester.
@bookworm3456 Swarthmore always closed all dorms for all breaks, regardless of length, when i was there. Sounds like either things have changed or my school was particularly heartless! I just assumed that was the norm at small schools. Apparently now Muhlenburg is the only one (but again, even they don’t close for everyone).