Juilliard????

Question:ok soo one of my biggest dreams in life is to get into juilliard for acting but i live on the west coast i have been acting for 4 years and i am in 9th grade i am about to joined a group called cmt that can give me a letter of recemandation to go to that school but its way expensive does anyone know of a scholarship program or something i could do to help raise money also is there anything else i can do to apply myself for that college i know that only a few ppl get in each year that is y i need all the help i can get if anyone will be kind enough to help me i would be most appreciative plz and thankyou =)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ok soo one of my biggest dreams in life is to get into juilliard for acting but i live on the west coast i have been acting for 4 years and i am in 9th grade i am about to joined a group called cmt that can give me a letter of recemandation to go to that school but its way expensive does anyone know of a scholarship program or something i could do to help raise money also is there anything else i can do to apply myself for that college i know that only a few ppl get in each year that is y i need all the help i can get if anyone will be kind enough to help me i would be most appreciative plz and thankyou =)

I'd say that your odds of Julliard are as good as anyone's, but I agree with the prior answerer--don't put all your eggs in that one basket.

As you go through high school, take a solid college-prep curriculum. Take four years of English, four of math, history, psychology, physics, chemistry, biology, civics, phys ed, and the arts. Also get as much instruction as you can--in school or out--in acting, voice, dance, movement, make-up, costuming, gymnastics, stage combat, riding, or any other acting-related skills.

And read plays! Cover the masters first--Shakespeare, Simon, Rabe, Albee, Mamet, Ionesco, Beckett, Miller, Williams, Wilder, O'Neill, Chekhov, Shaw, Strindberg, Ibsen, Rostand, Hugo, Moliere, Jonson, Aristophanes, Plautus, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Terence, Goldsmith.

Get into as many plays as you can--do your school plays, your cmt, and also look for community amateur theatres and college productions--call and ask if there's a role for a girl your age. If you don't land a role, ask if you can help out backstage or with the audience. Make contacts!

That letter of recommendation from cmt is one thing that will help you with admissions. Letters from theatre people are super--if you can get into the college production, try to get a letter from that director, a college-level recommendation will speak volumes!

As noted previously--be prepared in your senior year of HS to travel for multiple auditions.

Other programs to consider: NYU, Yale, Maryland. The second tier of schools is also worthy of your consideration: Indiana, Cal Poly, South Carolina, LSU, Wright State U (Ohio), University of Cincinnati, and others...

Yes, they have a scholarship program. Just a few, and hundreds (thousands?) of people apply for it each year. Have some other schools in mind. Are you aware that there are other colleges that are just well regarded as Juilliard? I know some very, very fine, very skilled actors who were not accepted to that school, but went to very prestigious places like Yale Drama or Northwestern (both *excellent* theatre schools).

Would you be able to go back and forth to New York to get to the different rounds of auditions? You would need to.

With a city school, keep in mind that you not only have the expense of school, but of living in New York City. Manhattan is one of the most expensive places to live in the world. (Against my better judgement - I pay two-thousand five hundred dollars each month for my apartment. Add utilities, transportation, and food to that. And that's now. It will be more later.)

You should not have to worry about how to finance it, that is your parents' problem. First things first, prepare a dynomite audition and get accepted, then worry about the money.