<p>i was going through this site and i found some information that said that cap 21, tisch of NYU accept 80 students out of about 900 students which is 9% admitting.
I also found that Tisch is not the only school that is the “under 10% super extreme” competitive school. In fact, there were so many!! Many other schools like University of Michigan and Boston Conservatory were under 10% admitting rate as well.
I would like to know why these musical theater schools are extremely competative to get in. I don’t get why many of these schools limit their number of students to a very little number. I would understand if only one or two schools were this competative and would think of them as “Oh, it’s one of the schools that are ridiculously competative” but i don’t get why MOST of the musical theater schools are ridiculously competative.
For example, for music conservatories, not all schools are under 10% admittance rate. I only know two music conservatories out of many out there that are under 10%; they are Juilliard and Curtis Institue of Music.
i do understand the fact that musical theater major is very popular and many people are competiting but isn’t like 10 musical theater schools having under 10% admittance rate a little too extreme? Does that mean there can only be less than 500 people in United States who can be a musical theater major from decent schools every year?
i would also like to know some of the musical theater schools that have around 20~30% admittance rate (IF there are ANY out there o.O).</p>
<p>I suspect some of this may be due to multiple applications. It seems that most of the top schools get about 1000 applications and accept about 20-30. If you're like most MT hopefuls, you will apply to all or most of the top schools plus a safety school or two. That means many, many duplicate applications. Put simply: the same 1000 applicants, give or take a couple of hundred, are applying to each school. So if there are (to keep the math simple) 15 top schools, each accepting 20-30 applicants, that means that 30-45% of the applicant pool will get into at least one of the top schools. Not so scary when you think of it that way.</p>
<p>I think Doug's math is roughly correct.</p>
<p>There's something else to add to the math: If a school gets 800 applicants and enrolls 80, that is probably not a 10% admit rate. To get the 80, it may need to send letters of acceptance to 160, or 140, or 200. No school enrolls everyone it admits; particularly true in specialized field like musical theatre, where the top kids apply just about everywhere.</p>
<p>Why keep programs small? Well, how many musical theatre majors do you need to maintain a viable program? Probably 10-15 men and women entering a year is enough, at most schools.</p>