<p>As my daughter and i continue to work on a good list of schools for her for next year, we are wondering if anyone might answer a couple of questions about Chapman College in California.</p>
<p>If i am reading the literature correctly, Chapman doesn't require an audition unless you want to go the BFA performance route, which can't happen until one is a sophomore.......am i reading that correctly? This is one of the schools that she is considering applying to as a non-audition option.....so i am just trying to be sure.</p>
<p>If anyone has any experience with the program there, we would love to hear.</p>
<p>Thanks much!</p>
<p>Your understanding is NOT correct. Chapman starts out as a BA program which is BY AUDITION. You can stay in the BA all four years or have the option to audition for the BFA in Sophomore year (after two years). It is not a MT program but there are some MT opportunities. I have a former student who attends and one who is applying.</p>
<p>In other words, Chapman is NOT a safety school due to it being audition based. I would say it is easier odds than most BFA program odds for freshmen applicants, however, and would balance out a list made up primarily of BFA programs, but you’d still need at least one non-audition option that is also an academic safety. </p>
<p>If you want a BA school with NO audition but where you audition later in the program for a BFA track, try Hofstra. They even have a MT Minor.</p>
<p>Thank you…yes, that makes sense. I hadn’t gotten far enough in the reading on Chapman’s web-page. Thanks for clarifying!</p>