Such wonderful options @love2share - and how nice that all of them are clustered together so you can see them all in the same weather! 
Can’t wait to hear which she picks.
@CaMom13 Thank you! I’m excited for my D! She’s worried that she will make the wrong decision. I think after visiting the campus, and looking at each curriculum, I trust that she will find the right fit for her!
@love2share Make sure you take time to chill in a student hang-out at each campus. I know everyone is big on curriculum comparison and I am too but feel is also important. Sometimes the gut tells you what the brain just can’t. 
@love2share Your D has great options! My D is spending the day at Pace tomorrow for FTVC, then we will go to weekend on the square Saturday, then Carnegie on Sunday. It should be a fun time!!!
@CaMom13 Good point! Thank you!
@Gapyearguru Thank you! Your D has great options too! I’m curious to hear what your D thinks about Pace FTVC and NYU. How does she feel about not knowing her NYU studio assignment before making a decision? Does she have a preference of studio?
@love2share Regarding NYU, she has said since the beginning of all this that she would be happy in any studio. We know a lot of people in the acting program there and they are all deliriously happy in the studio that was assigned to them. She is confident that she will be put into a studio that is the best fit for her, and has no problem committing without knowing beforehand. Her only qualm about FTVC is that she would give up training in stage acting, although there have been FTVC students in plays at Pace. If you make it into NYC in time, there is a play at Pace tomorrow night at 8pm, and I believe it’s Saturday night as well. (Dark of the Moon, being performed in the Schimmel Center).
@Gapyearguru That’s good to know that FTVC students at Pace can also audition for plays there. Did your D also audition for the BFA Acting program at Pace? or did she only want FTVC? And thanks for letting me know about the play. I’ll ask my D and see if she wants to check it out. We might try to see it Saturday or there’s Sunday performances also it looks like.
Oh, there’s also a bunch of performances over the weekend by each of the NYU Studios. It’s the Tisch Drama All Department Festival. And it looks like tickets are free.
@love2share She did audition for the BFA Acting-not her best day. We are planning on seeing at least one production at NYU on Saturday. We are really looking forward to it!
One note on Tisch drama performances - there are lots of them and they will vary in quality. My D says the first show she worked on wasn’t all that great and she was a little alarmed - and then the next one was amazing. ALL students in Tisch past their freshman year get cast in a studio peformance.
Agreed @Atreuh. I have one at SUNY OOS ($38k) and one at BU ($72k). SUNY is a relative bargain.
My D is a freshman at LIU Post. They offer pretty significant merit awards up to full paid tuition. So if the grades are there it can be affordable.
@BrokeDad0530 That’s one of the reasons we’re looking at LIU Post for my D…besides having an amazing audition experience with them at LA Unifieds and enjoyed meeting with David Hugo there. We look forward to our campus visit on Tuesday.
@love2share My daughter loves it, although super stressed right now. They have their freshman showcase this weekend and have been rehearsing quite a bit on top of regular school duties. The work is pretty intensive. My D loves Dave Hugo and talks about him frequently. LIU is a fairly small school so the facilities aren’t large up to date spaces (similar to the way I felt about Otterbein). I had to remind her that she was looking for the best program fit for her and not necessarily the coolest amenities. Sometimes it’s hard to look away from nice shiny things. Lol. She agreed and just felt the LIU was the best place for her.
We saw an Atlantic Studio scenes performance by the sophomores in Nov - it was pretty good, felt very similar to what D’s department does in her current PA program. If Juilliard has a play during these visits I also highly recommend checking them out. We saw “Detroit’ 67”, was such a treat.
@BrokeDad0530 Happy to hear that your D loves it at LIU Post! It’s so important to find the right fit. Break a leg to your daughter this weekend!
@camom13 - Here is what NYU’s website says:
“NYU awards very few exclusively merit-based scholarships, as we are committed to using the vast majority of our scholarship funds to assist students whose families are unable to pay the full cost of an NYU education. If you would like to be considered for merit-based scholarships, please be sure to complete the FAFSA and/or CSS Profile (depending on citizenship and campus of interest). We are unlikely to award scholarships to students who have not submitted these items by our deadline.”
So it’s not impossible to get merit aid without financial need, but "unlikely " if you don’t submit the FAFSA/CSS forms.
So we went to visit NYU at Weekend on the Square today, and it was a really wonderful admitted students day, but it left S with one really big question - wondering if any of the 2023 students have asked and gotten the answer to this, or if any of the parents of students attending Tisch can answer: is it strictly prohibited for Tisch students to audition for outside professional opportunities?
As background: S currently goes to a well-known PA high school in NYC. He has done a lot of performing with his high school, and as a result of one performance he now works with a talent management agency, and sometimes auditions for small gigs with them - commercials, or voiceovers, or a part in a pilot, for example. His biggest commitment so far has been a one-day shoot with a couple of lines in one scene of a feature film. He balances this with school and an internship and his school performance commitments. He’d like to keep doing that while he is in college, as long as he’s here in NY. He has no intention of doing multi-day shoots that would seriously interfere with school (I mean, unless he is offered a big part and takes a formal leave of absence, I guess).
Some of his classmates are telling him that NYU has a strict no-audition policy, as in he would be violating a school rule if he keeps up with these small little gigs. Does anyone know if that’s true? I know some other programs such as Rutgers really do have that strict of a policy, but my sense is that NYU is a very different place. Obviously if the outside work interfered with his school commitments that would be a problem - but if he can otherwise fit it in, would he be allowed? Would they even know?
@MomMimi Policies are outlined in Student Handbooks if you can find that online, otherwise email the Drama department and ask what theirs is.
@MomMimi I found the attached link, pg 45 says:
“We strongly encourage students to focus their energies on school and school-related productions; outside professional work detracts from the intensive commitment this program requires.
Students entering as freshmen may not participate in any production (outside of their class work) during their first year in the Department of Drama.“
@NYDreammom Thanks so much for these responses! Would also love to hear the experiences of any actual Tisch students. I’m focused on the possible difference between “participate in any production” and doing a voiceover or a one-day shoot.