help us find strong communications/arts schools?

alwaysamom
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:32:51 +0000

frazzled, you’ve been given lots of good suggestions here but one thing comes to mind. Let your friend know that at many colleges, classes in the arts - drama, music, dance, studio art - are often reserved for majors only. Some, like NYU, have an open arts curriculum which allows non-majors to take a class in the arts but these classes, in most cases, will not satisfy students who will have studied their area of interest extensively, as it sounds is the case with your friend’s D. They are more a ‘let’s try something different and new’ type thing. I know that NYU is not the only place where this is the case so that is something which needs to be explored carefully if she truly wants to continue her dance in college. I know of two very talented dancers who majored in other areas at Columbia and Barnard, but who were very happy with the dance classes they were able to take while there.