Any more options for me?

fishbowlfreshman
Sun, 04 May 2008 19:09:00 +0000

If you have the stats to get into some of the schools that have been mentioned, you should be able to get a full scholarship or close to it at a lot of schools that are somewhat down the academic prestige ladder. I’m not sure how up-to-date these are, but here are a couple of old threads giving names of some schools and links to their scholarship info …

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/54102-merit-scholarships-mt-schools.html?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/767056-post270.html

You might also want to get a job this summer and save everything you make to pay your own travel expenses to auditions. If you can’t do that, you can stick to the schools that don’t hold auditions for their BFAs until the end of freshman year.

Then, another option is to fight and refuse to go anywhere to major in business if that’s not what you want. If the entire purpose of going to college is to get a job when you graduate, just go to your local community college and get trained to be a mechanic or a plumber or some such. People graduating with Associates degrees in those fields have much better job prospects than your average schmo coming out of college with a BA degree. In most areas, all that’s good for is going to grad school, anyway. Just make sure you choose something you’ll enjoy doing. There are too many miserable people in the world who suck at what they do because they’ve sold out their passions to don some “practical” yoke.