squirk
June 9, 2020, 1:17pm
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allshallbewell:
@squirk , I attended a NACAC performing and visual arts fair in our city 2 years ago. It was ok, but it wasn’t worthy of a road trip (for us, it was 10 minutes from home). For starters, some of the attending schools were represented by their regular university admissions reps. They had departmental brochures for their various arts programs, but they were often unable to answer basic questions about the acting or mt programs and advised me to email the specific department head. Even when the college’s information table was staffed by an arts administrator, (versus a generic admissions counselor), the administrator was often NOT from the acting/mt program, so again, most times I was given the business card for the head of the acting program and told to email. Something similar occurred with the panel discussion that was hosted during the fair. The panel had some faculty from local colleges as well as a few area alums. I think there were 5 or 6 people on the panel, but NONE of them were there representing acting or mt. (1/2 of the panel were teachers/artists in the fine arts, one guy was a film producer (film major undergrad) and 1 was instrumental music faculty. Interestingly, they asked for a show of hands from the audience to see what the students were interested in. More than 50% of the students were interested in acting or mt. So . . . assuming the format hasn’t changed, I think your D might be disappointed if she actually did a road trip to attend a NACAC fair.
Thanks for the insight. It wouldn’t be a long road trip for us, but we would indeed spend more time in the car each way than the event itself. I’ll have to think on this.