<p>This BA versus BFA question is the first question that everyone seems to face. In the archived thread, there is lots of good discussion on this subject. One of the best ways to think about it is – would you be happier spending 80 perecent of your time in the studio working on your acting, voice, movement, directing, etc. and 20 percent in the classroom or spending 80 percent of your time in the classroom on academics and 20 percent in the studio. For my daughter, this was easy. She’d be happy if she never left the studio. She was bored to tears studying MacBeth in the classroom. Put her in a studio where they are living Shakespeare and she loves every minute of it. For this reason, we’re not only looking at BFAs but ones that are almost all the time in the studio. (Such programs also have the advantage that they tend to weigh auditioning over academics and my daughters auditioning skills are likely much better than her academics) </p>
<p>Now, if you are somewhat fuzzy between classroom and studio, then I think there are likely a number of other factors that come into play.</p>