<p>My daughter arranged to attend a ballet class at Princeton and asked to be evaluated by them for the admissions department.
She does ballet 6 days a week and has attended the School of American Ballet, and has appeared in children’s/youth roles with the Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Chicago and the Lyric Opera here in Chicago.
Princeton has a certificate program in theater and dance which emphasizes classroom and studio work in a variety of dance forms. They offer 5 ballet classes a week on an extracurricular basis at lunchtime.
The head of the dance department in her meeting with my daughter wanted to communicate that they really did not have a program to develop professional ballet dancers, but to broaden and deepen understanding of a variety of dance forms. She mentioned one student who deferred enrollment for a year and is dancing with PNB.
New York City is a little over an hour away by train, and when my daughter starts school in September she may seek to take classes there if it works with everything else she plans to be up to.
She is excited about starting at Princeton. It was her first choice and we all feel it’s a great fit. I get the impression that Princeton was later than, say, Harvard, at warming to home schoolers. However, her alumni interviewer knew of home schooled twins who were admitted to Princeton and later both became Rhodes Scholars! So I guess Princeton must be getting used to home schoolers by now!</p>