Hello
I am wondering if anyone has a reality on how competitive FSU is for its vocal performance majors. I was told that over 1500 vocal performance majors apply and between 15-30 are typically accepted. Is this accurate? If so it sounds highly competitive.
Thank you for any information you can provide.
I don’t know about FSU personally but I have heard it is a good school and competitive. I’m wondering if that is ALL applicants to the music school or truly just vocalists. It seems high to me for just vocalists.
The numbers are daunting regardless; and are a reason it helps to have teacher that can let you know if you would be competitive based on past experience…meaning pass the pre-screen most likely. Because the pool will drop considerably at that point.
For one school, I had the following “general” numbers from guess-estimates (so they could be wrong):
About 1200 musicians applying for 200 spots (but maybe 300 - 400 offers bc not all accept).
After pre-screens, my understanding was about 800ish would audition…with close to half getting offers.
HOWEVER, every instruments is different so there could be 35 - 40 offers to vocalists (for a class of 20)…and 2-3 offers to maybe…harp players (for a class of 1).
For the mathematics above, it would suggest vocalists at 120 - 150ish maybe. Of course it could be 200 as there are probs in general more vocalists than harpists (just guessing on that). I would re-check that number bc it seems too high to me. Others may know better…but that is my gut feel.
FSU has a large voice department and there have been faculty changes recently. The numbers quoted by the OP are too large for the VP program alone but could well be possible if one is including those applying for an MM degree and MT division as well, especially when factoring in Unifieds for the latter in several locations.