<p>Congrats on your Tisch acceptance, Darla!! Awesome! I hope you love it as much as my daughter has. </p>
<p>Still, I believe some very talented students are coming out of strong BA programs in theater. A former student whom I advised, as just one of many examples I could list, is about to graduate from Brown and has booked The MUNY this summer and just booked a national tour for next year. Actually another friend of my girls who graduated Brown has played a lead on a national tour (cast while he was still a student there). </p>
<p>Do I think that BFA training is excellent? Indeed I do. My own kid took that path, after all. But I know some kids who got into BFA programs but chose BA theater programs at schools like Yale, Brown, and Northwestern, and have an excellent shot at making it and these degrees will also look good on their resumes. Also, they did not just study history of theater and so on, but also had courses in performance areas like acting, movement, speech, singing, etc. and were in excellent productions at these universities. My D was just in a staged reading this week in NYC of a new musical with some actors with Broadway credits and such and one actor in the reading has a BA from Brown in theater. Just saying.</p>