How common for MT majors to go with a school that's academically less challenging?

By the way, the NY Times article grossly misrepresents the BA programs on D’s list. Many kids in her program can spend over 80% of their classroom time on performace training (most enter with a lot of AP credits) and are fully committed to careers in theatre. It also presumes that kids in BFA programs don’t decide not to perform over the 4 years of college, while in fact even at top conservatory or BFA programs many kids either switch majors or realize they won’t perform professionally by the time they graduate.

It also says kids go to certain schools to “increase their probability of being drafted”, yet in my experience those very same kids were likely to be “drafted” wherever they had gone to college, as most successful actors were the lucky winners of the genetics, talent and childhood training lottery well before they chose colleges. :wink: Evidence of this can be found in the random selection of schools (or no schools) found in virtually any Playbill you open.