<p>I wanted to share a short bit about experience for all of you prospective freshman on this board. As I mentioned above, my daughter is a freshman at NYU in the Strasberg Studio. We’re going to see her this weekend for Parent’s weekend and I am so excited. We live in Illinois and haven’t seen her for seven weeks. Anyhow, we live in a rural area, she took voice lessons and participated in community theatre opportunities and theatre opportunities available through the state university located here in West Central Illinois. She participated in extracurricular theatre at her small rural high school. Her biggest part was as the lead in the musical her senior year. Additionally she attended the Cherubs program, which she loved, in both drama and musical theater between her junior and senior year. She took the ACT, but no SAT. Her score was 32 on the ACT and she had a grade point of 3.89, placing her 18th in a class of 160. As you can see she had no professional experience at all, but was still able to make it into NYU. Not only that she is thriving at NYU; she absolutely loves it and her studio. She is taking Advanced Singing and learning the craft of acting, which was the most important thing to her in choosing the college that would best fit her needs. My point here is that they take all different levels of experience, even at very competitive schools like NYU. So follow your dream and have fun!! I’ll post a little bit more after we visit her this weekend. Good luck everybody.</p>