<p>I applied to a couple schools and I got into all of them and these are my top two, but now I have to choose between them which is super hard to do!! My original first choice was Long Beach it was great and highly reccomended and popular and I fell in love with it. And then right before I sent in my applications I found Fullerton and it was great so it skipped up to my second choice. So I applied to all and waited obsessing over Long Beach very nervous and then January 6th I receive an email from Fullerton and I was accepted I had been obsessing over Long Beach I hadn’t even noticed the other schools. But anyway I was super excited and it was a month until I got accepted to Long Beach. It was exactly a month. I got accepted February 6th to long beach. But in that month I absolutely fell in love with Fullerton. I had even convinced myself that I wasn’t getting accepted to long beach but then I did and now I don’t know which to choose. Do I go with my original love or my new love? My major would be Theatre with a couple possible minors. From what I can tell Fullerton has the better theatre study program. But long beach is good as well. Long beach has better academics than Fullerton and a bigger campus and more popular/prestigious. But there is still something that draws me to Fullerton. Like I said they have the better theatre at least it seems. But there BFA program is a lot harder to get into than the long beach performance option. But then I think well if j really want to be an actor I should go with the harder program to get into so I can really see how good I am instead of taking the easy route cause the acting world is not easy. Also they way I found Fullerton was I was looking up how to balance starting an acting career and college. And an article mentioned that Fullerton would be a great school to get good acting training as well as being in a good area to start a career. They also have newer dorms but a smaller campus at 236 acres and long beach has 323 acres. And a quick thing Fullerton has been a lot better with communicating with me. I have talked to proffesors and others at the school they always get directly back to me. But I have sent many emails to long beach with no response. Also the tuition at Fullerton is just a little bit higher than long beach. And there is a bunch of other tiny things that draw me to both I just can not choose. And I have not been able to tour neither campus because I live in new York. But I think my parents may be taking me out there for spring break to tour so that may be when I make my final decision, but what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Oh and these schools are rivals so that is a factor lol! I would have to go against the other lol!</p>
<p>Hmm hard decision…everything is quite same the number of students, price, academic quality except Long Beach has more land than Fullerton…If something draws you to Fullerton then I would attend that.</p>
<p>Just curipus, why would you pay OOS fees to attend a state school?</p>
<p>I don’t want to throw water on you joy and fulfilling your dreams, but I am curious what brings you to SoCal from NY with the intent of pursuing acting such that you end up at a CSU? There is nothing wrong w either school, heck I attended one of them, but back in the 70s and 80s they were the two highest ranked CSU commuter schools. </p>
<p>Though I no longer live there, I have not heard that the situation changed. I think they are a place to go when you live at home.</p>
<p>I do they those two campuses are strong, I feel like I was decently educated, but I dom’t voew it as the perfect place to go from put of state and have the four year dream experience. I would have recommended a privatelike Chapman, in Orange, for strong theater in Orange County w merit money, probably a similar price, though I don’t know current CSU OOS prices.</p>
<p>I just highly encourage you to be very critical on your visit so that if you pick one of these two schools, it lives up to your dreams.</p>
<p>A friend of DD attended a CSU from out of state, I warned her and warned her that she would not be able to become a resident and a year later she was back in her home state w ecpensive OOS fees having been paid. It was not what she dreamed.</p>
<p>This may be exactly what you dreamed, just be sure you ask!!</p>
<p>CSU OOS prices are around the $30,000 to $35,000 per year range, which is relatively low cost for an OOS public school (however, NY has low cost state universities, so staying in-state there would be cheaper).</p>
<p>However, only a few CSUs are likely to be attractive for an OOS student looking to “go away to college”, given the commuter-heavy nature of many of them.</p>
<p>Exactly. I would have stayed in NY if I wanted to do Broadway but to start a screen career, south California is the best place to be.</p>
<p>And I considered Chapman but it is a private and cost way more. CSU are pretty cheap even for OOS prices.</p>
<p>And I’m really not worried about the "college " experience. It is really what you make it but I will be critical. It is to late now anyway to apply somewhere else. And they are great schools. But if I really don’t like it I can always transfer, but I will stay in California as I feel this is where I feel I need to be to start my career.</p>
<p>Both schools are good CSU campuses. I have taught at CSUF and I have been on the CSULB campus many times and since it is our closest CSU campus lot’s of local kids go there. First you say a couple of profound things which should influence your choice.</p>
<h1>1 “And a quick thing Fullerton has been a lot better with communicating with me.” If this is the way they communicate with you now, expect that to continue once you are on campus.</h1>
<h1>2 “From what I can tell Fullerton has the better theater study program.” You should always strive for the best program in your major.</h1>
<h1>3 “Long Beach has better academics than Fullerton.” In a nut shell, academics are important, but the two schools will not be that far off. As an actor, I would minor in business believe it or not. Just my opinion, but one of the reasons why so many actors in Los Angeles fail is that they have no business or marketing skills. CSUF has a great business department. Successful actors that go bankrupt = no business skills. Failed actors that never made it = no marketing skills (or no talent and/or no work ethic).</h1>
<p>CSULB is HIGHLY impacted. CSUF is too but not nearly as bad. Both are commuter schools. Both will be diverse ethnically. CSULB probably has a better music program if that is meaningful for you. I’d go to both schools and check them out personally.</p>