<p>My son’s been accepted into UCLA’s TFT program. We went to the TFT Open House a few weeks ago and they said that their goal is to have about 60 freshmen in the program with the following break-out: 15 acting, 15 musical theatre, 30 tech and playwriting.</p>
<p>We are out-of-state as well and it’s pretty darn expensive, that’s for sure. But, the program is outstanding.</p>
<p>My son is an auditioning actor. He is considered successful because he isn’t living at his parents’ home, in a flophouse or under a bridge. But he’s living hand to mouth on what he makes. He does not have school loans. Many young people he knows have these loans and have defaulted on them. They simply do not make enough money to even pay the interest on them. Being in the performing arts means no income at times. It’s hard enough to make ends meet without having the relentless grind of paying a student loan. Believe me, it’s not worth it. FOr every UCLA grad that hits it big there are tens of thousands pounding the pavement on their parent’s dime, and those are the lucky ones. There are even more who become deadbeats because they simply cannot make the money to pay the loans. It’s a luxury to start out at zero, to have loans means you are in the negative.</p>