<p>Hi,
This is my first post. I am the parent of a junior in high school, a girl. She wants to be a professional actress, and has studied acting for many years, and has attended Stage Door Manor for two summers. She gets top grades and is taking the SAT in a few hours. I have been reading the posts on the theater/drama majors forum for several days, and my head is spinning. Obviously we have time to narrrow our search, but I would like to tell you what she is looking for in a college because it would help us and might help others.</p>
<p>We live in NYC, but she wants to go to a school that looks like a college with a quad and that is located in the middle of a small college town that is friendly to the college. It must be co-ed. She wants to major in theater/acting, but is willing to audition, and will do a mass audition in Nebraska in June. She thinks she might like to minor in psychology, but isn't sure. Her mother and I would prefer a school that is reachable by public transportation (train or bus) from New York City, but we might modify that. She would be happy (so she says) to get far away from us.</p>
<p>I have looked and looked for colleges with well-known acting programs in the kind of setting she wants, but I am having a hard time finding them. Many are in cities. Some are near college towns, but you need a car to get to the town. Some are in towns but have bad relationships with the towns. Or they are all-girls' schools. Plus, my daughter is fairly bright. (The SAT will be an important piece of the puzzle. We don't have that, yet.)
Her ideal school is Dartmouth. Are there any schools for a bright, upper middle class girl, that have good acting programs that will let her act in several productions a year, that look like Dartmouth, but aren't Dartmouth? Thanks for your help.</p>