Choosing: Syracuse vs NYU for Acting

lrolfescin
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:15:29 +0000

Looking for some opinions/experience to help make a choice:

My daughter got accepted to Syracuse and was pretty well set on going there. She liked Syracuse when we visited, and they gave her some scholarship money and offered her a place in their honors program, which is nice, since she wants to be well rounded. But then she got into NYU/Tisch (kind of a surprise - she didn’t think it went well). Now she’s thinking “How can I possibly turn down NYU?” Is that reasonable? Is NYU that much better than Syracuse for Acting?

Also, while she definitely want to major in Acting, she kind of “grew up” in Musical Theater, and she’d like to keep in touch with that if possible. From what we saw at Syracuse, that seems like a possibility - more interaction between the two groups. My sense is that at NYU, the MT is more separate from straight theater.

Any thoughts?