Anyone have knowledge of this program? There seems to be conflicting info on their website. On the theatre department’s website, it says that there’s a BFA in Design and an auditioned BA in Performance, Design, or Theatre Generalist.
But on the admissions website, it says that they offer “a non-conservatory Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Performance or Design; a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Performance, Design, or a generalist theatre track; and a minor.”
I don’t have direct experience, but Tulane was going to be a safety school application for my son. As I understand,
you enter the school under a BA performance, then at the end of sophomore year audition into the BFA degree. This is ostensibly why it’s considered a non-audition program. Although I believe you could submit prescreen video as an application enhancement. My son never had to apply because he received 2 offers before Christmas break, ahead of a Tulane’s application deadline.
Full disclosure, I’m an alum with a business degree (very disappointed that S decided not to apply!); and business school is the same - you apply to it at the end of Sophomore year. Tulane strikes me as a hidden gem, excellent school, thriving arts community and area film work, great size for personal attention, and they look for diversity in interest.
Update: I emailed the department and got this response:
“The Admissions page is wrong & I will contact them. We suspended the BFA in Performance a number of years ago and have no plans to change that in the future.
Marty Sachs”
Okay, I give up. And am frustrated, honestly, that when I contacted Marty Sachs from the theater department that the above was his response, and not to refer me to the music department if they have a performance major. If they can’t work together to help prospective parents/students, that makes it appear as though they don’t have their act together as a school. I’ll take this one off of my list anyway.