@monkey13… wow. 10 hours a week of dance classes at Ithaca? No kidding.
I on the other hand didn’t realize there was such a thing as an MT program that was known to be acting first program that had 10 hours a week of dance instruction. NSB, which is the MT studio at NYU Tisch doesn’t come anywhere near those hours and they have more dance than any other Tisch studio. It’s more like 3 hours in NSB.
I thought Ithaca was an acting first program so your report of 10 hours as being normal sort of surprises me. Last year I started a thread asking about what made some people describe their program as a “conservatory” or “conservatory-like” and some of us posted actual hours spent in class and specifically in professional training classes. I know that my number was 19 1/2 total hours for an MT at Tisch at the time with some number of more hours in non-studio classes. Others contributed. This was the thread: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/1550827-studio-training-contiuum-conservatory-not-and-everything-in-between-p1.html
Anyway, 10 training hours spent in dance training at Tisch even in the MT studio would mean that over half of the training, in an acting focused program would be in dance. You sure about those 10 hours of class time spent in dance classes at Ithaca? That really would surprise me.
Anyway back to the OP. Dance classes in some programs are leveled and in others, not. If you are serious about dance, look for program that levels their instruction. Dance is leveled at NYU Tisch. If you want to take additional dance classes it would be a function of your ability to fit them around required studio classes plus your other classes. And it would also be limited by your credits. A full load of credits at NYU is 18/semester. After that you would have to pay more and it is a very expensive school. Studio is 8 of those 18. Usually there is another 8 credits at least in theatre studies and other classes. So you normally only have 2 credits left to play around with. But in a city like NYC, you certainly can find other ways to get more dance hours in including drop in classes etc. Much of that would be less expensive than NYU tuition.