<p>I can’t 100% promise this, but I’m pretty sure when my daughter applied to NYU last year there was a place to check off a second choice school if she didn’t get into Tisch. If you’d be happy at NYU in a different major, that could be a way to go. But don’t count on transferring to Tisch drama. It would not be an easy thing to do.</p>
<p>Tnjello, it’s hard to recommend schools when we don’t know exactly what kind of school you are looking for and what your grades are etc. I think we would need to hear more details about what you want. Academics, large, small, etc.</p>
<p>I may be the only one, but I couldn’t imagine traveling across the world to go to a school like Purchase. Yes, it has an excellent reputation for its drama program, but it is a small college, mostly arts based, in the suburbs with nothing around it. It is not a University. Manhattan is not that close. It’s also not really a global community like some of the other schools on your list. It is mostly New Yorkers and many commuters. Plus academically it is not in the same league as some of the other schools.</p>
<p>Some of the other schools on your list have great drama programs but would give you a lot of other things as well. Such as NYU, Syracuse, Fordham, Rutgers and Michigan. I don’t know anything about the other schools you mentioned. If you like a large city school like NYU, I would also add Boston University and DePaul ( in Chicago) to your list. And if you have your heart set on NYC only then I would concentrate on NYU, Fordham or Pace. Rutgers is far and in the middle of Jersey.</p>
<p>Hope this helped a little.</p>