High School versus Performing Arts High School

kedstuff
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:09:43 +0000

I’d agree with alwaysamom on her assessment. Our S attended a great pa hs for 3 years. From my perspective, the few senior-year transfers they admitted during that time frame did not end up getting the value of the school’s program because they had no context for the sequence of the arts training. They were plunged into various levels of dance, acting, voice, depending on how they auditioned. In addition to the college application process, they were dealing with a new school, new friends (many of whom wondered how this kid was going to compete for parts other seniors hoped to win in the year’s performance schedule), and new faculty who would need to write letters of recommendation within three months of meeting them. That said, some did just fine in their college process but I’m not sure they wouldn’t have anyway…and then they would have done so within a less stressful final year of high school.