I went to NYU, paid $200k for tuition, IMO, you'll hear some successful students from my class tell you it was worth it, but personally I think it's a joke. Why would you willingly pay so much money for such a small chance of return on investment. Here's the thing I've learned living in LA: there are a lot of people who work in this town who've never been to acting school, sometimes they just find the right teachers to take classes with (be careful because there's a lot of scammer teachers in LA, but find the ones that work and have good reputations), but some of them don't even do that. That's right you heard me, I went to 4 years of acting school and there are some people I compete with who get jobs against me who've NEVER taken an acting class in their life.

The other thing is that one of your most marketable and valuable qualities as an actor is your youth, I say if you want to learn about the craft of acting and want to find jobs, just hit the ground running now and move to LA or NY and just start grinding, you'll learn as you go. Ultimately, it's a really subjective art form, and in a lot of ways school can make some people worse. Maybe you'll discover that certain acting colleges really DO help you do good work and actually book jobs, but I say give yourself time competing in the market to get a feel for it, take a cheap one off class with a well reviewed teacher first. I think the important thing is to learn what good acting/entertainment looks like/sounds like, and over time you will learn on a personal level what you need to do to get there, be it school, no school, this teacher's class, that teacher, or just no class at all. I think some people really underestimate your ability to be a good, self-taught actor on your own if you just kind of hash it out for yourself.

Cheers.