<p>I’m a freshman currently enrolled in a small college in Massachusetts and I’m trying to keep my options open for transferring next fall. I realize that I didn’t take enough risks in the application process during my senior year of high school. My reach was Emerson College, where I auditioned as a B.A. Theatre studies major with a concentration in acting. I was waitlisted but not accepted.
I was very active in the theatre department all four years in high school and continued on and off with private voice lessons at studios in the next town over during that time. The college where I am now attending as a theatre major on one of the few theatre scholarships offered, gives freshman the opportunity to perform in mainstage shows as well as vast opportunites in the technical production field, and I am planning on actively participating both, but I think I’m craving something more intensive.
My question is (after that big life story speil), would it be too much of a risk to try and transfer into tisch for next fall? Would I recieve plenty of performance opportunities if I transferred into CAS as a dramatic lit major, performance studies minor instead? I really want to commit to a life of performance but I want to make sure I make intelligent moves in getting there.
Any advice, insight, criticism, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>i’m also considering marymount, wagner, emerson and boston university</p>
<p>Only you can answer that question. However, my daughter had a similar experience. She applied to two colleges out of high school…Emerson and Southern Ct State. She too was wait listed at Emerson and ended up at Southern. Music theater is her passion. After two years at Southern and further developing her skills( an maintaining a 3.9 average), she auditioned for NYU’s music theater program. I dropped her off in Manhattan this weekend to start at NYU.</p>
<p>She would say its absolutely worth it…but its her life and her passion - and she had maxed out what Southern could provide her.</p>
<p>So, is it worth it for you? You tell me.</p>