You’ve just wrapped your eighth leading role in a production at your high school, you’re an avid participant in your town’s community theater, you subscribe to this magazine, and college application deadlines are fast approaching. When it comes to choosing a college, should you focus on your acting training or a degree pegged to your backup plan?
Regardless of where high school seniors are in their certainty about becoming full-time actors, there’s a drama program to accommodate every step of getting onstage or in front of the camera, seriously or for fun. But before comparing in- and out-of-state tuitions, campus life, class sizes, and reputation, consider what type of acting curriculum is best suited to your goals. Whether looking for a preprofessional conservatory or just a way to inject the dramatic arts into your college education, be thorough when gathering information and clear about what you want out of your bachelor’s degree.
“I went to a conservatory program and am now teaching in a liberal arts program,” explains David Henderson, Carnegie Mellon University alum and current chair of the departments of dance and drama at Hofstra University. “With a conservatory,
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