Son can't make decision about NYU Tisch, New School, UT Austin

Delegator
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:42:55 +0000

All it takes is a read of the who’s who in the playbill for a typical national tour to figurre out that no school is worth $160k more than UT. In the program you will see actors from Oklahoma City University, University of Florida, Muehlenberg, Pace, Emerson, San Diego State, and more.

My opinion is that many of the “top” schools make their reputation on selectivity rather than on any particularly higher level of excellence in training.

And, as one of my daughter’s friends said when accepted at NYU Musical Theatre (no aid) and Columbia Barnard (boatloads of aid), “Yeah, I was kind of sad that I couldn’t go to my dream school. But I would have been more sad if I couldn’t afford to go to NYC to pursue my career because I was too deep in debt to live in the NY area.”