Curtis, New England Conservatory and Juilliard

College Majors Music Major
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Does anybody know roughly what percentage of applicants are invited to audition and what percentage of those who audition ultimately get admitted? Cheers

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You may want to read through this discussion from a couple weeks ago.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/1955488-acceptance-rate-after-audition.html

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Thanks

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The number of applicants who are accepted tends to depend on how many slots there are : )

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At Curtis unless they have changed things on the instrumental side they don’t pre screen, so anyone can audition. As far as yields, it all depends as others have said on how many people are auditioning and how many slots they have, and also which teachers have openings (since you don’t get in unless a teacher agrees to teach you). At Curtis on violin, for example, they admit a handful of students each year but audition a lot, so the yield might be less than a typical year at Juilliard, which has a larger faculty (though they may be auditioning more people, too).On the other hand, on something like flute the yield might be as low at Juilliard as it is at Curtis likely not much better at NEC.

It also depends on the studio you are trying to get into, at Juilliard or NEC if you specify one of the ‘top’ teachers, the ones with the big names, your yield will likely be a lot smaller than for the instrument as a whole…it could be a lot harder hypothetically to get into a ‘great’ teacher at NEC than are more ‘ordinary’ teacher at Juilliard, so it all depends there, too.

On an overall basis, likely the order of difficulty, from relatively easier to harder, is probably NEC, Juilliard and Curtis, across all instruments and areas, but as I and others pointed out, that might not mean much in an individual case.

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I’m not sure if this a recent change, Juilliard stated in the pre-audition acceptance (2017) email that choosing the studio teacher would be useful for them to schedule auditions (i.e. Make sure the teacher is on the panel). It however stated that none of the panel will be aware of studio preferences. This was for violin.