| Oh My Gosh, get over it! I'm an educator and I helped my daughter pick a school based on the education that she'll get. What fills HER needs. My choice is not the one she chose, because she wants a BFA. I'd rather have her in the small liberal art school with an active campus community and a population that is there on the weekends and that has a very good MT program.
She's going to Montclair because SHE wants an intense program in the field she loves. I'm content that Clay James is going to make this a terrific program. I've learned that a school's attitude starts with administration and filters down. I researched him; a friend's daughter graduated in MT from Miami gave him a glowing report as an educator.
My D figured out HER priorities; if the dorms aren't terribly comfortable, she'll have to manage. If there aren't the 6 a capella groups to choose from, she'll have to start one. She'll have to organize her fun rather than have it be all around her. I'd have chosen the comfortable campus life for her. She chose the program. She'll have to deal with a school whose administrative staff is overburdened and overwhelmed. Every administrative task has been a nightmare. I've dealt with them so far. She'll have to deal next year. But then she'll be on campus with what looks like very supportive faculty advisors. (PLEEEEZE let them take my place)
From my viewpoint, this is a tough field to choose. She'll have to really learn to cope and advocate for herself to make it in showbiz. | 
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