Attend UCLA to "plug into" LA Dance Scene?

Twoin18
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:00:58 +0000

I would definitely look at what would transfer to Chapman (it appears there is a website you can use to do this assessment) and consider applying. It is a very good program, my D felt it was better than UCI and she loved the location - downtown Orange is very cute old town SoCal. And for an OOS applicant it might be cheaper than the UCs. Unfortunately the audition dates might not line up with UCI despite the two schools being really close to each other.

I’m not sure that it’s worth applying to UCLA for dance if you prefer an academic major, as I doubt they reduce the academic standards much if at all. But there’s no reason you can’t just apply for completely different majors at different UCs (that’s what my D did because UCB and UCLA were her “non-dance” backups and she was admitted to both as well as to the dance programs at UCSB and UCI).

However in terms of getting off campus at UCLA my S definitely finds it too time consuming to go much further than Westwood, Hollywood or Santa Monica - he’s never been over to the San Fernando Valley AFAIK.