<p>I am going to jump in and comment on the issue of location and contacts. My son graduated a few years ago and actually was a dance major but started off in MT, he has many friends working in MT and has been living in NYC for the last few years. He opted to attend a great dance program at a large state university with lots of financial help and loved every minute of it. He has said that he is so happy he didn’t have any student loans to pay off as so many of his friends have struggled financially and some have had to drop out of the dance/theatre world as just couldn’t survive. We all know how difficult it is to survive as a performer. He wouldn’t trade his undergrad experience for anything but he has had to work incredibly hard to make contacts on his own in NYC and thinks the kids that attended colleges in NYC had a big advantage in that area. So there are pros and cons to both sides! The good news is…he is still dancing!</p>