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I attached scholarship info for Johnson & Wales university. It's important for your DD to know that keeping her grades up and studying for the SAT's will help her get scholarships for culinary school. She might also study at L'Academie de Cuisine while living at home.

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You're not answering the question. Is a track record of LOSING competitions seen as an asset by dance programs?

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Anonymous wrote:Not making the competition team is not at all indicative of how she will do as a dance majors. Most dance programs have all freshman in beginning level classes to "unlearn" all of the horrible competition habits

And yet they are much more likely to recruit someone who won the competition than someone who lost it eight years in a row. Not much of a resume builder.

That's not true. College dance programs would prefer you not compete before coming to them. They "recruit" at high school dance festivals, never EVER at competitions. Cruise ships and Broadway dancers get started on the completion circuit Everyone else needs the depth a Dance degree provides.

You've said it yourself - college dance programs may prefer applicants who do not compete before coming to them, but I doubt they see applicants who weren't even good enough to win these competitions as their top of the pile.

Many serious dancers don't participate in those competition teams at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Not making the competition team is not at all indicative of how she will do as a dance majors. Most dance programs have all freshman in beginning level classes to "unlearn" all of the horrible competition habits

And yet they are much more likely to recruit someone who won the competition than someone who lost it eight years in a row. Not much of a resume builder.

That's not true. College dance programs would prefer you not compete before coming to them. They "recruit" at high school dance festivals, never EVER at competitions. Cruise ships and Broadway dancers get started on the completion circuit Everyone else needs the depth a Dance degree provides.

You've said it yourself - college dance programs may prefer applicants who do not compete before coming to them, but I doubt they see applicants who weren't even good enough to win these competitions as their top of the pile.

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Anonymous wrote:Not making the competition team is not at all indicative of how she will do as a dance majors. Most dance programs have all freshman in beginning level classes to "unlearn" all of the horrible competition habits

And yet they are much more likely to recruit someone who won the competition than someone who lost it eight years in a row. Not much of a resume builder.

That's not true. College dance programs would prefer you not compete before coming to them. They "recruit" at high school dance festivals, never EVER at competitions. Cruise ships and Broadway dancers get started on the completion circuit Everyone else needs the depth a Dance degree provides.

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Oh come on: This pre-med Ivy student presumably also did science activities throughout her school years "in addition" to dance, just like your kid. I doubt the OP's kid did - based on her posts. Totally different. You can't focus on dance for 12 years and then be surprised the kid isn't interested in science at 16. And yes, I wouldn't pay for 12 years of dance lessons if I noticed that other interests were not being developed - unless perhaps there was clear evidence my kid was a superstar, or I thought that was their only hope at a career of some sort. Sorry for not qualifying my answer - not everybody has time for super long posts.

"You're not very good at dance, so I'm not paying for dance unless you also do robotics camp."

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Oh come on: This pre-med Ivy student presumably also did science activities throughout her school years "in addition" to dance, just like your kid. I doubt the OP's kid did - based on her posts. Totally different. You can't focus on dance for 12 years and then be surprised the kid isn't interested in science at 16. And yes, I wouldn't pay for 12 years of dance lessons if I noticed that other interests were not being developed - unless perhaps there was clear evidence my kid was a superstar, or I thought that was their only hope at a career of some sort. Sorry for not qualifying my answer - not everybody has time for super long posts.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely understand the OP, and there is no way I would pay for college for a dance major and culinary school. However, I would also not have paid for 12 years of dance lessons. It's too late to chance her interests now - elementary school would have been the time to explore, but perhaps she was too busy taking dance classes.
In terms of practical recommendations: As others have said, it's easy to have multiple majors - so she can combine her "hobby" with a more lucrative major, if she wants your financial support. STEM is not necessarily it.
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So all those years of dance, which OP 's DD apparently enjoys deeply even if she's not a star at it, is to blame for her not becoming a STEM kid from the start? In elementary school she should have "explored" more and dumped dance even if she liked it? Or just done it a few years then been told it was time to stop?

i agree that kids should get exposure to varied activities. My own DD has done many science competitions in MS and HS while also dancing extensively. She's learned to use her time wisely. But I wonder if you'd find all our expenditures on dance were wasted since DD is not a superstar and won't make a living at it.

So...a kid should only be allowed to move up and invest years in dance or acting or a sport or art if the child demonstrates precocious genius (read: earning potential) at it from an early age, by that way of thinking. Or else the parents are throwing away money on activities a kid merely enjoys for the activities' own sake.

This will be a shock to my friend whose college student DD is pre-med at an Ivy with career-building summer internships in research labs. This super-STEM daughter danced from age 3 to 18 and still dances and performs at college. Her dance experience provided an excellent extracurricular that colleges liked to see on an application.

Oh come on: This pre-med Ivy student presumably also did science activities throughout her school years "in addition" to dance, just like your kid. I doubt the OP's kid did - based on her posts. Totally different. You can't focus on dance for 12 years and then be surprised the kid isn't interested in science at 16. And yes, I wouldn't pay for 12 years of dance lessons if I noticed that other interests were not being developed - unless perhaps there was clear evidence my kid was a superstar, or I thought that was their only hope at a career of some sort. Sorry for not qualifying my answer - not everybody has time for super long posts.