<p>My only caution here is although its nice to hear opinions of friends who have visited schools and opinions of people on this site, but if there is one and only one piece of advise that I will ever give that can be heard and listened to it is that your D has to visit the school and mingle with the current students see if SHE feels she fits in and what is important to her. Although many people had told us negative things about Pace, something happened to her when she attended the audition. She met “her people” she clicked with the faculty and felt a connection to the students that she did not feel anywhere else including high school. Just saying because From our visit to the Acting program at PPU , we saw the typical MT and dance students all over the place but my daughter who is an acting student with more of an MT flair felt that the acting students who she met in actual acting classes were more non traditional more inline with the way you describe your D. The students were so excited to talk about their works with the classics and the Restoration period which I didn’t even know what it was. </p>
<p>Another crucial issue for admission for marginal GPA students is to Ace the first two semesters of senior year. For one D, several schools held back decisions until seeing her progress, for my other D, her academic success in first two semesters pulled her into the honors program although she did not meet the reqs of being in the top5% of her class. Your D already has an amazing theatre resume along with a summer program, I would think she should cut down her involvement to focus on academics and testing and traveling around to visit schools and audition which does not coincide with being heavily involved in theatre. Wish you luck my friend, this is a journey, a process and keeping an open mind and thinking outside the box and listening to your D as she learns about herself is so crucial as you support her through the most tense and stressful experience she will have yet, but so rewarding.</p>