Hello, I’m a rising senior interested in applying to colleges with BFA prof=grams for acting. While I am taking this quarantined summer as an opportunity to hone my skills anyway I can, I doubt I can magically become a skilled dancer or singer within the span of a couple months. Since I live in Texas, I have so far been focusing on colleges within my state - such as UT Texas, Texas State, Texas Tech, SMU and so on. However, I am open to the idea of moving to another state to purse my education. My issue lays within the fact that all of the schools I am interested in are highly competitive and only accept 12 - 18 students. I do not doubt my commitment to acting, but I’d like to realistic. I do not have the experience nor honed techniques some of my other competitors have. I see quite often that it is recommended to apply for safety schools, but how would that apply to myself and my specific interests? Does that mean I should also apply to schools with theater programs that don’t require auditions, community colleges with general theater programs, or should I instead ignore college and instead take acting courses (then after some sufficient time apply for conservatories and colleges with BFAs for acting). I know that the summer after your Junior year isn’t an ideal time to realize what you want to do as an adult, especially considering the time and devotion it takes to prepare for college auditions, but I’ve finally put my foot forward - and I desperately need your help.
- Also once I’ve saved enough money, I will invest in an acting coach that can help me refine my skills and tell me what my realistic options are. However, answers to this concern would be much appreciated
Safety schools for acting typically mean schools that don’t require an audition. Usually they’re BAs, not BFAs.
University of Wyoming is a BFA, non-audition school. Really nice facilities, theater department hosts the study abroad program in London, the head of the department has a summer theater program in Montana for the summer.
Look at other programs like that. U of Northern Colorado, Montana, Montana state.
I honestly don’t get the need for a program to be a BFA. It just means more credits in theater/dance, but you could take those anyway if you want to. My daughter found taking so many theater classes to be limiting her ability to take other classes that interested her so she changed her major.
A “safety” school in this context means a non-audition program in a school that you can reasonably expect to get into with your stats. There are plenty of BA programs out there with fabulous theatre departments offering terrific training.
Since you seem to be prioritizing geography, you should probably choose a radius you’re comfortable with and start looking within that, unless you are willing to accept the idea of a wider geographic range in order to broaden your list.
As for your singing/dancing - you do not need that for most straight Acting BFAs. A few acting BFAs will ask you to sing, and they might have a movement call. I don’t recall offhand which ones but I know there’s information on CC about the various audition calls for many schools.
If you want to add singing and dance to your repertoire to apply to MT programs, then maybe you might want to consider a gap year? I will say that many if not most MT programs look closely at singing so it would be worth consulting with a vocal coach to see if focusing on vocals would be worth your while and to get an idea of whether you can get audition-worthy material ready for the upcoming season.
With dance, it is a mixed bag - some MT schools don’t even have a dance call, some just want to “see where you are” and will level you accordingly if they like the rest of your audition, some have a “mover track,” and some prioritize dance training as they intend to turn out true “triple-threats”. So, if you do your research you can weed out the dance-priority schools. My son can take choreography but has no dance training to speak of. He literally did the worm, the sprinkler, the twist, and flossed his way through an improv portion of his dance audition at his ED school. They took him anyway --but did not put him into the MT studio! 
I hope this helps! Best of luck to you this season!
Safety schoils also need to be affordable so be sure to run net price calculators.