Advice requested: BADA vs. Carnegie Mellon Summer PreCollege Program

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Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:45:01 +0000

Hi I have taken Carnegie Mellon program and it was a great experience. And one of my friends did Bada and it was a great experience as well. Either program she will surely grow as an artist. A few things to consider…
-Is she MT or Straight Acting for Carnegie Mellon? There are alot more MT’s at Carnegie Mellon and they can be overwhelming
-BADA on the flip side is very small - my friend had trouble making friends because there were less people. Also they liked staying in the dorms and it was hard for her to get them to explore london with her.
-Carnegie Mellon was really helpful for rising seniors (i did it as a rising junior) find audition pieces, work on them, mock auditions, they really prepared us for the college process (recommended other schools). Outside of class we practiced lines, researched plays, it was a really rewarding experience and really helped other people feel ready for college auditions… this year when i had college auditions all i learned while at carnegie mellon was really helpful (and has paid off in my acceptances!)
— I took the playwriting class and it was great! I had never written a play before and by the end of the program the play I had written was performed in a staged reading by fellow classmates.
—sorry i can’t really speak more about Bada you should do more research my friend went because first and foremost she loves Shakespeare, yet she will get some Shakespeare through Carnegie Mellon - styles classes, audition classes, voice and movement, acting depending on teachers all have the potential to include Shakespeare
— hope this was helpful is you have any more specific questions you can send me a message