<p>Any opinions? I’ve only got 36 hours to decide!</p>
<p>Yale is awesome while northwestern is only slightly amazing so the choice seems clear</p>
<p>yale ez send in ur deposit nao!</p>
<p>Northwestern is legit for musical theatre, however I have friends involved in the program that say they’re second only to Yale.</p>
<p>Yale is also going to give you a richer academic experience (not to discount Northwestern) and it’s closer to broadway - which means subsidized trips to NYC (meaning shows for $20 including travel fare!!). Also, Yale is a more awesome school in terms of atmosphere, residential life, and campus life.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Northwestern, but I did do NHSMI (their summer program for music) and hung out with the theatre kids a great deal… many of the ones I met salivated when I said I was applying early to Yale. I plan also on doing music theatre stuff at Yale too as well as a major in Theatre Studies (with ambitions of professionally acting), so maybe we’ll be in shows next year together!!! (Although with like 80 shows a year going on at Yale, maybe we won’t be in a show together!)</p>
<p>I know the decision isn’t easy, but I know which I would pick… :)</p>
<p>I don’t think Yale has a Musical Theater major. Does Northwestern?</p>
<p>amtc mom here.
Eating Food - I may have my daughter pm you because you’ve decided upon what she’s still debating!</p>
<p>Hunt - Yale does not have a MT major, neither does Northwestern for that matter - it’s a “certificate program” similar to a minor but very well respected. Yale does have a relatively new program call the Shen Program for Musical Theater which is excellent and funded for at least the next 5 years. That is why Yale came from behind after my daughter attended BDD, she was so impressed with the classes and end of semester concert.</p>
<p>While Yale may not have a MT major, it does have many famous alumni (Foster, Streep, Giamatti, Norton etc) and its proximity to Broadway and the extensive Yale alumni presence in NY should make the choice easy.</p>
<p>It’s really a philosophical difference about education. Northwestern is an excellent semi-conservatory program, very focused (although maybe less so than the equivalent programs at Michigan, NYU). I don’t know about the Shen program, but generally Yale is a liberal arts paradise that is saturated with people who are interested in the arts generally and in theater and musical theater in particular. No college can come close to giving anyone a guarantee of success in a field as competitive and as luck-affected as musical theater.</p>
<p>You really have to decide who you are and what you want. Yale theater people tend to have broad intellectual interests and want to know everything, and apply it to theater. Many of my cohorts at Yale have had wonderful theater careers – some in acting, some in management, some in tech fields. There are lots of pipelines between Yale and Broadway/Off-Broadway, and with the Yale Dramat, residential college theater societies, the Drama School, and the Yale Rep, no college has more or better theater on campus.</p>
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<p>I’d be happy to help in any way I can. But before that, I will say this: </p>
<p>I would understand turning down Yale to attend a conservatory (like Michigan or NYU)… but in terms of what Northwestern and Yale have to offer, I would say the cake definitely goes to Yaleeee.</p>
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Streep got her BA from Vassar and MFA from Yale. She sent her daughter (Mamie Gummer) to Northwestern.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your thoughts, none really new but reinforcing our current thoughts. It’s funny that Yale is so quiet about its’ program, we had to dig deep to find out all we did. Too often people mistake the undergrad program for the grad school (Drama School and Yale Rep) but the undergraduate program is really quite impressive if a little hard to navigate.</p>
<p>Eating Food - did you know about the Shen program?</p>
<p>I vote for Yale</p>
<p>She chose Northwestern over Yale even though it upset her terribly! The MT program at Northwestern is just more structured and that’s what she decided was more important at this time.</p>
<p>We’re sad and happy at the same time.</p>