Last year’s acceptance rates and the discussions that went on about them seemed to me as a new observer to be setting a new level of difficulty in getting into a MT program. If I recall correctly there was a lot of discussion as to why it was harder than previous years to get an acceptance. Some people said it was the Glee factor and others just an overall increase in number of applications to colleges and MT. Or some schools increasing wait-lists instead of acceptances. Anyways, does anyone have a feel for whether this year was the same, better, or worse in getting acceptances?
With no evidence (meaning I have not looked back to count) it seems to me that there are more kids with a wealth of acceptances. (meaning 6, 8, even 10 schools to choose from). My kid was part of last year’s class, and I have read backgrounds thread from previous years- and there is a subset of this year’s class seems “above average” in that regard.
If it helps at all, just went to MTCA’s website and did some counting . . .approximately 167 students were accepted into a total count of around 577 auditioned spots in MT and Drama (not sure how well these old eyes count!). That makes an average of 3 plus acceptances per student into auditioned programs. So not necessarily an increase that I see from previous years. However, one thing I have noted from CC posts is that where students 4 years ago auditioned for 12-14 colleges, they now seem to be more in the 15-20 range. I think we need to be careful of using CC as an indicator as only a small percentage of folks are lucky enough to find it!