<p>My daughter presently attends a very specialized performing arts conservatory. She has realized that perhaps this is not what she wants to do. She wants more options and she wants to be academically challenged.
She is thinking of transferring to NYU and she has even considered taking the second semester off, taking College courses, doing volunteer work and start fresh in the fall. My husband is concerned that this may not be the best course of action and that it may hinder her chances at other schools, but she is really not happy in this place and the passion she used to have for her art is slowly dwindling away.</p>
<p>She is very good at what she does, but she is aware that it is a very uncertain and ungrateful field and she has other interests as well. She had very good HS transcripts, SAT's okay not great and whatever classes she is taking in this institution she is doing very well. Probably any school will take ONE credit because of the nature of the place she presently attends. She has dedicated her life to her craft so her EC's are mostly circumscribed to that, her training. But she has become very interested in volunteer work and in using her artistic skills to motivate underprivileged kids.</p>
<p>She wants to give one other College (with an even lower acceptance rate) that rejected her once, another try even though they seem to want students that have almost found the cure for cancer before entering the school (or so she says) but she insists that she is a promising candidate and that they should view her for what she can become, not what she has been which is not shabby either.</p>
<p>Anyway, the question is:</p>
<p>Would taking a semester off hinder her chances of entering a very competitive school?</p>
<p>And would a young person, attending a program like the one she attends to have a chance at a school that rejected you the first time?</p>
<p>THANK YOU...MUCH!</p>