Dance or Musical Theater?

Hello, I have two quick questions which my daughter and I can’t seem to get answered anywhere online. She will be applying this fall for next September 2019 semester. Her passion has always been dance but she wants to be able to do broadway one day. Does she apply to the dance program or musical theater? If she majors in the dance program is there a way to take musical theater classes? We know she isn’t allowed to double major to do both but can she major in the one and minor in the other? She has already done the Summer High School Dance program At NYU and loved it, so we feel she probably has a better chance of getting in with her dance. Because she doesn’t have as much experience in theater as she does dance. Is she allowed to audition for both? She is stressing herself out cause she doesn’t know which department to apply for. Her dream school has alway been NYU and she has worked so hard. Hoping a clear answer might help her make a better decision.

Like Dramamama said, it varies at each school. Where I did my undergrad, you could minor in dance, but not musical theater. Where I did my graduate work, minors were not required for undergraduate students and I’d guess that only about 40% of undergrads opted for one and they were always unrelated to musical theater.

What she chooses to apply as is obviously a choice only she can make, but with any highly competitive school, she will serve herself best if she auditions with her strongest skill. If she knows her singing, for example, isn’t near the level of her dancing, she shouldn’t let that hold her back.