Syracuse vs NYU for Acting (not MT)

lrolfescin
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:30:37 +0000

I’m posting this here because there doesn’t seem to be a really good, active forum for just Acting. Hope some of you have some opinions/experience to share:

My daughter got accepted to Syracuse and was pretty well set on going there. She liked Syracuse when we visited, and they gave her some scholarship money and offered her a place in their honors program, which is nice, since she wants to be well rounded. But then she got into Tisch (kind of a surprise - she didn’t think it went well). Now she’s thinking “How can I possibly turn down NYU?” Is that reasonable? Is NYU that much better than Syracuse for just Acting?

Also, while she definitely want to major in Acting, she kind of “grew up” in MT, and she’d like to keep in touch with that if possible. From what we saw at Syracuse, that seems like a possibility - more interaction between the two groups. My sense is that at NYU, the MT is more separate from straight theater.

Any thoughts?