Back to OP's question. I'm still rooting for Connecticut College, even though it is a few miles outside the Mid-Atlantic:
From the Dance Department at Conn. College
"Our curriculum fits beautifully into the liberal arts environment. Most dance students double major or join an Interdisciplinary Center, study abroad, and are active on campus in student organizations."

From the Environmental Studies Department
"The Connecticut College environmental studies major ranks as one of the oldest in the country… and includes over 20 participating faculty from 10 academic departments. You can choose from two tracks: one natural science-based, the other with a strong social science perspective…Our graduates are in strong demand in industry, government and consulting and many pursue advanced degrees in numerous environmental fields."

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Agreed. Many of us like seeing and appreciating art, and some of us love making art too – even if it doesn't prove to be a lucrative career, or a career at all. Lots of people work hard at unrelated day jobs while still making art or performing as a serious hobby. And the word "amateur" has its roots in "one who does something for love rather than money."

Best of luck to your daughter, OP.

But is Mom and Dad paying 90K a year for "art" for "art's sake"? You are all quick to da@n sociology and psych degrees as being worthless. What could possibly justify spending that kind of money to major/minor in dance? She has good stats. She should go to the best school for academic interests and take pro classes off campus.

DP. Firstly, no one is condemning those subjects here. Secondly, you so clearly have no knowledge or even context for arts training and education. You are the last person who should be dispensing advice. This thread is clearly not relevant to you, so just move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Agreed. Many of us like seeing and appreciating art, and some of us love making art too – even if it doesn't prove to be a lucrative career, or a career at all. Lots of people work hard at unrelated day jobs while still making art or performing as a serious hobby. And the word "amateur" has its roots in "one who does something for love rather than money."

Best of luck to your daughter, OP.

But is Mom and Dad paying 90K a year for "art" for "art's sake"? You are all quick to da@n sociology and psych degrees as being worthless. What could possibly justify spending that kind of money to major/minor in dance? She has good stats. She should go to the best school for academic interests and take pro classes off campus.

For the last time, OP’S CHILD WANTS TO DOUBLE MAJOR!!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Agreed. Many of us like seeing and appreciating art, and some of us love making art too – even if it doesn't prove to be a lucrative career, or a career at all. Lots of people work hard at unrelated day jobs while still making art or performing as a serious hobby. And the word "amateur" has its roots in "one who does something for love rather than money."

Best of luck to your daughter, OP.

But is Mom and Dad paying 90K a year for "art" for "art's sake"? You are all quick to da@n sociology and psych degrees as being worthless. What could possibly justify spending that kind of money to major/minor in dance? She has good stats. She should go to the best school for academic interests and take pro classes off campus.

University of So Carolina.

Anonymous wrote:OP Another dance mom here. Be careful. You really risk outing your child with all these specifics about her academics and your family profile and interpersonal dynamics. Everyone in the dance world knows there is only one true pre-professional conservatory in the area that does both ballet and modern. There are only so many seniors this year.

OP Another dance mom here. Be careful. You really risk outing your child with all these specifics about her academics and your family profile and interpersonal dynamics. Everyone in the dance world knows there is only one true pre-professional conservatory in the area that does both ballet and modern. There are only so many seniors this year. In any case I think you really have limited your options by not considering schools outside the mid-atlantic. I do think she has a shot at MD though! good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Not just performing arts but other careers as well. Like teaching. Liberal arts. Nurses. DCUM loves to hate anything not STEM or finance.

I'd offer Skidmore as another East Coast college that has a respected environmental science department and a great dance program. Many students there seem to have double majors – sometimes in very different academic departments.

They have limited merit aid – some for science students and some for musicians.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Agreed. Many of us like seeing and appreciating art, and some of us love making art too – even if it doesn't prove to be a lucrative career, or a career at all. Lots of people work hard at unrelated day jobs while still making art or performing as a serious hobby. And the word "amateur" has its roots in "one who does something for love rather than money."

Best of luck to your daughter, OP.

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Anonymous wrote: My only suggestion is to consider a minor in business so she can have the knowledge of how to run a business or studio someday. There are far too many retired dancers running terribly unorganized and toxic studios in America. I’ve been to a few. 🤣

Girl, I’m with you on that…

+3

There is a perfect negative example in Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Love this. Amen!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Just want to send support from another parent of an aspiring performing artist. People have no problem enjoying various forms of art in their everyday lives but then love to trash it as a career and offer all types of unsolicited suggestions.

I’m so grateful for artists and performers who enrich our lives and the world around us, making it a more beautiful place to be part of the human experience. Thank you for supporting and nurturing your child’s passion for her art form!

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we have taken a tangent. This poster is looking for schools that would allow her daughter to continue dance AND double major with bio/environmental science with the goal of going into conservation work for her job.

Thanks, PP, OP here. I appreciate the suggestions for colleges very much and I’ve added a few to our list. I’m always amazed at the posters who can’t wait to trash arts degrees and artistic careers more generally, as if a world with only accountants and attorneys is an ideal universe. No books, movies, music, theater, sculpture, fashion, whatever. DD knows her art won’t pay. That’s not the point. She wants to keep doing it at a high level in college because she’s an artist and an academic. There’s no reason she can’t do both. I did.

Seems a lot of posters here should go back to college for reading comprehension skills.