Why wouldn't you go live in a place like NY for a few years if you can afford to?
Forget the school itself. Just being outside the country and getting to live in a cosmopolitan city where you can go watch Broadway and off-Broadway plays, visit world-class museums like the MET, Guggenheim, Whitney and a dozen others is an education in itself. You get to meet people of various races and ethnicities and experience a life outside of the film industry. Actors need life experience.
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