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Prairie Flower,
I hope you were able to find lots of answers to your questions on the link kindly provided by Chrism. Although my D was accepted to Steinhardt and was treated wonderfully by the faculty and admissions people there, in the end, we did not think the program provided a sufficient balance of Dance and Acting classes to go along with the first rate music and vocal education. My D has been dancing since she was 5 and although he said he'd try to intercede on her behalf, the department chairman honestly admitted that he couldn't guarantee her placement in the advanced dance classes which are normally only offered to dance majors. When my D was offered a spot in the BFA MT program at Michigan, we didn't feel it necessary to have to try and make things work at Steinhardt. I will tell you that I was very impressed with the department, especially liked the smaller production of William Finn's "New Brain" that we saw (wasn't quite as impressed with "Ragtime") and was very grateful for the time the program made available to us. It also seems to me that they have one of the very few programs, along with OCU, that allows a young singer to seriously explore interests in both MT and Vocal Performance simultaneously as an undergraduate.
One caveat: If performance opportunites are critical to you, be aware that the presence of a Graduate program at Steinhardt may limit undergraduate performance opportunities. |