<p>Maybe there is already a thread about this somewhere..</p>
<p>For the schools my S applied to its generally < 20, usually divided equally between male and female.</p>
<p>There’s no general number of acceptances. You’d do well to ask or search in the individual forums of the schools you’re considering.</p>
<p>Old thread with some numbers for each school and some discussion…not updated recently:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/503504-audition-class-size-numbers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/503504-audition-class-size-numbers.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks Soozievt - interesting thread. It started making me nervous so I closed it lol. </p>
<p>What I posted was an average of the class size the schools he applied to will end up with, I’m not how many they accept to yield that size.</p>
<p>Rough totals… 300-400 total combined spots among the listed schools. We all know the audition numbers are high, but there is so much overlap, that it is hard to guess the total number if auditioners. The math makes my head hurt…</p>
<p>Every school knows with precision what their historical yield has been, but the musical theater programs are getting more competitive all the time.</p>
<p>Some of the top schools accept only the number they want. Carnegie Mellon is one of those, and that school has a “priority wait list.” I believe at that point if, say, a female belter declines the offer, they’d go to a female belter on the priority wait list.</p>
<p>Ithaca, where my son attends in MT, has not used a wait list in the past. They are in a “bulge year” now, because very few students declined the offer of admission, compared to statistics for past years. Between that and the hiring of a new program director, they may change their approach for this year. Ithaca seems to be a bit of a hot school at the moment.</p>
<p>That’s how Otterbein works too, Prodesse, in terms of the wait list. They actually took a few more than usual in their MT class this year–there are 5 or 6 guys (I forget which) instead of the usual 4. </p>
<p>Incidentally, it’s hard to judge the true yield for some schools–not everybody does this, but some programs report the number of applicants they saw at big regional group auditions (like Thespians, etc.) while others only report kids who actually auditioned for them directly.</p>
<p>Here are some more threads on this topic:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1355255-freshmen-mt-class-sizes-fall-2012-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1355255-freshmen-mt-class-sizes-fall-2012-a.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1534871-number-students-accepted.html?highlight=size[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1534871-number-students-accepted.html?highlight=size</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1121192-audition-class-size-number-college-class-2015-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1121192-audition-class-size-number-college-class-2015-a.html</a></p>
<p>I think this is the most recent tally of class size (the numbers accepted are much harder to track):</p>
<p>Baldwin Wallace MT: 16 (7 men and 9 women)
Ball State MT (BFA): 17 (8 men and 9 women)
Boston Conservatory MT 65 total (15 more accepted than anticipated)
Carnegie Mellon MT (BFA): 12 (7 men and 5 women)
CCM MT (BFA): 18 (9 men and 9 women)
Coastal Carolina MT (BFA): 10 (3 men and 7 women)
Elon MT (BFA): 18 (9 men and 9 women)
Emerson MT: 14 (13 women and 1 man)
University of Florida MT: 4 (2 men and 1 woman, 1 sophomore transfer)
Florida State MT: (BFA + BM) 8-10 (accept 14-16)
Illinois Wesleyan MT: 7 (4 women, 3 men)
Hartt MT: (BFA) 23 (15 women, 8 men) Acting (BFA) 12 (8 men, 4 women)
Ithaca College MT (BFA): 21 (14 men and 7 women)
James Madison MT (BA): 14 (6 men and 8 women)
Michigan MT (BFA): 24 (14 men and 10 women)
New York University: Tisch NSB - 61, Steinhardt - ??
Northwestern U (BA + MT Cert): 15 frosh (6 men and 9 women) {*see post #21}
Oklahoma City MT: 27 (14 men and 13 women)
Otterbein MT (BFA): 8 (4 men and 4 women)
Otterbein Acting (BFA): 6 (2 men and 4 women)
Pace (BFA-MT): 35 (17 men and 18 women)
Penn State MT (BFA): 14 (6 men, 8 women)
Rider (BM MT): 10 men 20 women
Shenandoah MT (BFA): 18 (7 men and 11 women)
SUNY Fredonia MT (BFA): 14 (4 men and 10 women)
SUNY Fredonia Acting (BFA): 4 (1 man and 3 women)
Syracuse MT (BFA) 25 (13 men and 12 women)
TCU (BFA) 10 (5 men and 5 women)
Texas State Acting (BFA): 12 (6 men and 6 women)
Texas State MT: 12 (6 men and 6 women)
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland MT (BA): 18 (3 American Students)
University of California, Los Angeles MT: 7 (3 men and 4 women)
University Of Northern Colorado MT: 16 (5 women and 11 men + 2 sophomore women transfers)
University of Utah (BFA): 22 (8 men and 14 women)
Wagner College (BA MT): 30 (15 men and 15 women)
Webster University (BFA MT): 19 Total
Webster University (BFA Acting) : 16 Total</p>
<p>Wow! Thank you!</p>
<p>NYU Steinhardt accepts around 24 each year, if someone would like to add that instead of the ? on the above list.</p>
<p>Montclair is 20 (10 men, 10 women).</p>
<p>Ball State has 20 in this year’s freshman class, 12 girls and 8 guys.</p>
<p>Anyone know if Rider will change their numbers now that they offer a BFA </p>
<p>Rider (BM MT): 10 men 20 women</p>
<p>When people would ask why my D had to apply to so many schools and said she will have all kinds of choices(obviously they weren’t theatre parents). I would tell them that most schools have a class size of 8-20 with a few taking more-but that does seem like the general rannge.</p>
<p>I told someone recently that it is more work to get into a good MT program than it is to get into an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>Thanks, Emsdad. When I provided that link yesterday, I was recalling that there had been more recent threads on this topic and I didn’t take the time to find them. Thanks for doing so, and also pasting the most recent tally from the forum. </p>
<p>MTMom2015:
I don’t think it is more “work” to get into a MT program than an Ivy League college. However, the acceptance rates for a BFA in MT are a bit lower than the ones for Ivy League acceptance! Most people who don’t have a kid in MT have no idea it is this competitive to be accepted.</p>
<p>Wright State has 14 MT freshmen this year (7/7) and apparently it’s a larger class than they’ve had in several years. They told us at our audition last year that approximately 400 audition & they don’t go to Unifieds. Not sure of acting but also very small class.</p>
<p>James Madison (BA MT) has a freshman class of 11 this fall (2013)… 6 men and 5 women.</p>
<p>We were at WSU this month. Victoria Oleen said acting will be the same size as MT this year at WSU, between 12-14, split evenly.</p>