Usdan - Applications

Left to Right:Ruth Starr, Kerry Discioarro, Andrew Copper,
Yolanda Lebron and Bobbie Altman

Feel free to call our Admissions Staff at (631) 643-7900 or (212) 772-6060 with any questions you may have in the application process.

The following is provided to answer some of the questions you may have about the Usdan Center. Please read carefully before filling out the application form. To receive a full color brochure and application please fill out the form on our contact page. We hope that this information will be helpful to you.

TUITION:

Tuition for 7 weeks: $2,825 to $3,325 plus bus fees.
Tuition for 4 weeks: $2,425 plus bus fees.

Bus fees vary depending on enrolling agency. Please call for details.

DIVISIONS:

Students of the Usdan Center are divided into four separate divisions based upon their current grade in school. The four divisions are:

Discovery: Grade K through 1
Partner in the Arts: Grades 2 or 3
JUNIOR: Grade 4 through 6
SENIOR: Grade 7 through 12

You will be assigned to groups suited to your age and advancement. In Theater Arts, applications from students in Grade 7-12 are accepted. In Intermediate Music Theater, only applications from students in Grade 5 and 6 are accepted.

Students in grades 2 or 3 participate in an enhanced mentoring program called Partners in the Arts. Call for details (631) 643-7900 or (212) 772-6060.

DEPARTMENTS:

There are six departments at the Usdan Center: Art, Dance, Music, Theater Arts, Language Arts, and Chess. Applicants apply for one of these Departments. All students participate in the ASSEMBLY and SWIMMING programs by attending a performance in the Center's Amphitheater each day and having one period of swimming daily.

USDAN'S MAJOR and MINOR INTEREST ACTIVITIES:

After choosing a Department, you select a MAJOR Interest Activity. Your MAJOR subject is the one in which you have the greatest interest and desire to participate. Two periods daily are devoted to it. Examples: a violinist would choose Orchestra; a dancer, ballet; an art student, painting, etc.

After making this choice, you then choose a MINOR Interest Activity. This MINOR is assigned one period daily and is provided to give you an opportunity to enjoy an experience in another art form or in recreation. We ask for three choices, but reserve the right, when necessary, to assign this activity. Please choose carefully for we may have to use your third choice.

Choose your MAJOR and MINOR activities with care, because it will be difficult, if not impossible, to make changes in the assigned programs. After the opening of the season, schedule changes, when possible, will be made upon the recommendation of the faculty.