Ohio Northern University

anothermom-w-q
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:33:09 +0000

In a nutshell, the positives for my D were;

The small campus, and small department and the opportunities that could offer her. (Freshmen usually do the holiday spectacular - not sure if I have the name right or not, but it is big in the community)

Pretty campus, personal attention.

The biggest negative was the location. You really need to like cold weather, and small towns. We are from California, and it was very different from what she was used to.
The campus culture seems more athletically inclined than performance oriented. You don’t have as good an idea of what the competition is like out there within such a small department in such a small town. At Muhlenberg, where she does attend there might be 100 people auditioning for a role. You get a more realistic idea of the cut throat industry. I can’t speak to the training, but my D did attend a few classes. We heard the college choir and were inpressed.
We did meet students who had auditioned at the big name schools who told us they were happy they had chosen ONU rather than a more cut throat school.