| Please read this if you are considering this school.
My name is Arya Arabshahi and I have been waiting to be able to write this for so long. Everything about the U of A stated on this board is true. I do not wish to dispute with anyone.
I was cut last year, as a freshman auditioning for sophmore status. I was one of the upward of 20 people cut from the program, a ridiculous number that has yet to be explained by the U of A.
But the reason I am writing this is to strongly discourage anyone that has been accepted by the U of A to actually go there. The training is fine yes, but any school with a good set of teachers and a stanislavski textbook will give you fine training. After losing a year as a freshman at the U of A, and a year of my life as a sophmore (unprepared by my teachers for my sophmore year as a BA), I am very proud to say that today I recieved acceptance letters from both The Theatre School at DePaul AND The BFA Acting Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
The University of Arizona has proven to be a school that does not pride itself in its students, but instead the POWER it has over its students. Having grown up in Tucson Arizona, The U of A has always been where I wanted to be, sadly, that dream was ripped away from me last year for no good reason. As you can hopefully see by now, there were a number of tremendously talented kids that were cut from the program last year, and many of them were minority students. There is simply something wrong at the U of A School of Theatre. | 
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