Entering students quickly find they're not going to have much free time. But then, they're not in Kansas anymore. Forget the studied hostility common to so many adolescents, suburban and urban alike. Here, that's replaced by a sort of, well, star dust. Every day, they attend five academic courses and three arts classes.
Lunch is their only free period.
As Davis-Cotton leaves, Davis flashes his winningest smile. Students need a 2.5 average to apply, and if they fall beneath that at DSA, they're out. And their performance skills are winning rave reviews. The wind symphony has twice been invited to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall. Colleges are applauding as well.