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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know anything about dance, but I know about higher ed.  I teach at UMD, and I will say that the arts departments are really good about reaching out to prospective students and parents with truthful information.  They should be able to give you information about their recent graduates and especially job placement rates.  The arts and humanities are a bit under siege right now (to state the obvious), so many departments have responded by being proactive.  If the dance departments at Towson and NYU (and any other schools that interest your kid) can't give you such information, I would be leery.

Also, the other thing I'll say from my higher ed perspective is that one of the benefits of a major like dance is that they tend to be highly selective (either officially by audition or unofficially by weeding out lesser/inferior participants).  Assuming your daughter makes it, she will probably get very personalized attention.  Oh--and that's another question to ask of these departments: who/what are their instructors connected to?  They should be able to help your kid network.

Finally, I will say, I teach in a more "practical"/professional major, where we routinely have students who are doubling majoring in the thing that they love and our major because their parents said they had to.  I find that they are some of our best students.  They're engaged in school because they get to pursue their passion and they're also realistic about pursuing opportunities that will set them up for their future.  Some of the arts majors make such a double major difficult, but I think it's worth it if it can work.[/quote]

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