<p>FWIW, my daughter is in the BA program at Fordham (an auditioned BA) where she spends the day in classes and long into the night (I mean really really long, often into the wee hours) in rehearsal. She is both an actor an playwright and is in the throes of casting her first play there, for which she is the writer and producer (she will be graded). There is a professional director, but the all of the designers are students. In addition to her own productions, she also has crew and shop responsibilities and has (when not in production) opportunities to AD other productions. It’s at least as busy, from what I can tell, as a BFA. Certainly she is busier than the average BA student at an LAC (I teach at a selective university so I have some sense of workload.) Fordham accepts very few AP credits (hers were only good for electives, i.e., useless) so she has to take things like language and math in addition to her theater classes. In the end that’s one of the reasons she chose this program, because she wasn’t ready to sign off on academics entirely at 18.</p>