Question: What acting school or university is best to go at in the US, without bein' to expensive? 

Answer: ACT (American Conservatory Theatre) in San Francisco comes to mind.  It's very well respected.  Also, there are world-renown acting schools in New York and Los Angeles that aren't affiliated with universities; I just don't know the names off-hand.  I don't know how the independent drama schools compare in cost to the university drama programs, like Yale, NYU, UCLA, etc.
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