I didn't get into any of my first choice, or even my second choice mt programs first time around auditioning. Ended up committing to a small auditioned BFA program with the hopes that it would still provide good training. I am now about to enter my junior year and I'm regretting not taking a gap year and re-auditioning. As a freshman, I thought that the training was good enough, but now as I'm progressing through the program I'm realizing that if the training keeps going the way it's going, I won't be prepared for life after graduation. My skill set is so far behind other musical theatre students my age in other programs.
Is it completely ridiculous to contemplate transferring at this point? If I did end up leaving, I would be throwing away my senior year to start over completely somewhere new. I wouldn't graduate till I was 24, and that's IF I could find a program that would take me as a sophomore.
I'm not happy where I am, but there's no guarantee that transferring would solve my problems. I want to be able to graduate from a musical theatre program that I'm proud to have a degree from, where I am receiving good training in all three areas, and where I feel like I'm included and accepted by the mt faculty and students. I have to say that at the place I'm at, I'm not feeling any of those things. Should I suck it up and push through the next two years and then try to find better training after I graduate, or should I look into transferring?
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