<p>Does this list look realistic or are their too many reaches?</p>
<p>MMC (BFA Acting)
CCM (BFA Acting)
SMU( BFA Acting)
Ithaca (BFA Acting)
Syracuse (BFA Acting)
DePaul (BFA Acting)
UArts (BFA Acting)
UCLA (BFA Acting)
CalArts (BFA Acting)
Emerson (BFA Acting)
Suny Purchase (BFA Acting)
Rutgers (BFA Acting)
UMich (BFA Acting)
PSU (BFA Acting)
Elon (BFA Acting)
FSU (BFA Acting)
BU (BFA Acting)
CMU (BFA Acting)
UNCSA (BFA Acting)</p>
<p>Based on the “conventional wisdom,” looks like what you’re missing right now is the non-audition safety–schools you feel confident about academically that have solid non-auditioned theater programs. Lots of suggestions on this forum!</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with applying to reaches, but I’d also advise you to get a non-auditioned safety school squared away early in the year. If you have been reading this year’s threads you probably know that all auditioned schools are reaches (more so if you are female), so be sure to apply to some regular LACs and universities – unless you are willing to take a gap year and do it all over again.</p>
<p>Yes I’m a female…for safeties I have Eugene Lang, Hofstra, Bard, & Skidmore.</p>
<p>I ended up with no non-auditioned safeties (I told myself I’d apply to Temple as a backup if I didn’t get into one of my fall audition schools), but I would of course recommend doing that. </p>
<p>I think the best thing to do is do as many fall auditions as possible. Walking into the Jan/Feb audition season with acceptances helps calm the nerves so much!</p>
<p>If by PSU you mean Penn State University, then I’m not sure if you know this but they don’t have a BFA in Acting. They have a BFA in Musical Theatre and a BA in Theatre with a possible emphasis on performance (which also requires an audition). Trust me I wish they had a BFA in Acting but I like others was only able to apply to the BA with a performance concentration (and I’ve been accepted) and whilst it’s a good program, it’s certainly not as intense as a BFA… but there are a lot of acting classes and so for a BA it’s pretty good…</p>
<p>I would suggest looking at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign since it shares a lot of similarities with PSU as far the school goes but it also offers a BFA in Acting. </p>
<p>Also, UCLA does not offer a BFA at undergraduate level. They offer a BA with an acting track/concentration. However, unlike PSU, it’s a little more intense for a BA but still not a BFA.</p>
<p>Just to add, if you want a BFA in Los Angeles, then how bout USC (University of Southern California)?</p>
<p>Also, (sorry about the billion posts 
) since you are considering FSU, you might wanna think about University of Florida and maybe even University of Miami? I believe they both offer BFA acting degrees.</p>
<p>If this is the list you are considering, you should definitely do all of the research you can regarding each individual institution. However, I think it would be to your advantage to break down that larger list to a smaller one that focuses on your top school selections. Waiting can become tedious and with a vast number of schools, you want to make sure you are looking for THE school for YOU. Essentially, you want to end up at the place that best suits your interests and where you will receive the utmost training as a theatre artist and as an individual.</p>
<p>Well there are a lot of schools in that list, you would probably get accepted to at least one so having many reaches won’t be a problem. I’m an international student so I had to travel for my auditions which was why I only auditioned for 5 schools 3 of them being reaches. As long as you’re willing to audition for so many schools and have two safeties I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having many reaches.</p>
<p>One thing to consider is the size of the programs and the acceptance rate (this is addressed somewhere in this forum). How many students do the schools audition and how many do they accept? It is very hard to stay “up” when you have dozens of very competitive schools that take only 5% of the auditioned students. Constant auditioning (even at Unifieds) is exhausting and if you go to an academically competitive high school, hard to keep up your grades.</p>
<p>You might be better off really analyzing the programs of half of those schools to find the ones whose programs really appeal to you. Then pick a few schools that have a higher acceptance rate and one or two non-audition schools that you think you could be happy with. OR look at a couple of BA programs to include in your mix. </p>
<p>Although all your programs are BFA’s, not all BFA programs are alike. How important is it to you that you be in productions freshman and sophomore year? Do you want to try your hand at playwriting or directing or do film work? How important is it that you are in a big city or, conversely, traditional college campus? Your list is very broad but that is a great place to start.</p>
<p>My initial thoughts is while the list is extensive; it might serve you better to make your list a little smaller and research the schools and find out what parts of each of the programs serves you the best.</p>