<p>I am not a theater person…are these good courses for a BA in theater?
[Program:</a> Theatre Courses - Pomona College - Acalog ACMS?](<a href=“Program: Theatre Courses - Pomona College - Acalog ACMS™”>Program: Theatre Courses - Pomona College - Acalog ACMS™)</p>
<p>I don’t know how anyone can answer that since you can call a class anything you want but it says nothing about quality. Also, it’s pretty subjective. My daughter sat in a couple of classes that she thought were just awful but you can’t tell that on paper. And people will disagree.</p>
<p>At Pomona College they were awful?</p>
<p>No, I know nothing about Pomona except that I’ve never heard much about it in terms of theater. In general, I’m not sure how much you can determine from a list of courses beyond whether the BA has enough of a performance emphasis for your student. Then comes quality. That’s where my kid got very picky.</p>
<p>She does have a friend very happy at Whittier College. Maybe, another one to look at.</p>
<p>Can I ask where your D ended up?</p>
<p>UC Irvine. Nothing is perfect, but overall she’s very satisfied and has often said she’s really glad that’s where she landed.</p>
<p>Just on paper, Pomona’s classes look pretty good. I notice they don’t seem to have basic movement classes, which I wonder about…but they do offer Alexander Technique, which is terrific.</p>
<p>The acting instruction seems to emphasize the Meisner technique. Some people really like Meisner, but many others prefer a “toolbox” approach that encompasses a variety of approaches to acting instruction.</p>
<p>I echo others’ comments that I have never seen much on this forum about Pomona’s program.</p>
<p>From what I have determined Pomona is on the level of Harvard and Stanford for admission difficulty. Maybe that is one of the reasons. The courses offered seemed varied. Thank you for taking the time to look at it for me.</p>
<p>Pomona’s academic selectivity would not be a reason for the lack of attention to it in this forum. The schools that are talked about the most here are, generally speaking, the ones that have the best reputations for their theatre programs, irrespective of academic selectivity.</p>
<p>For theatre, certain schools like Juilliard and Carnegie Mellon are just as hard to get into as Harvard, Stanford, or anyplace else.</p>