<p>Musick…you are NOT stupid at all! I don’t think that! But every student must pick colleges that match their qualifications. Your qualifications are not in range, for example at NYU, UMich or Columbia. They do not accept people with your stats. You need to develop a college list that fits your qualifications. </p>
<p>If you don’t understand the differences between a BA and a BFA, please read up on it and read the Theater and the Musical Theater forums on CC. You have to audition to get into a BFA and the acceptance rates are MUCH lower than the published rates you gave to the universities themselves. You will have to pay to travel to these auditions. Most who are competitive for these auditions have been training for years and are being coached privately for the auditions themselves. The audition counts a great deal as part of the admissions process. At UMich, you have to be invited to audition after an academic review. At NYU/Tisch, the audition counts 50% and academic review counts 50%. At most other BFA programs, the audition counts more than academics. At some BFA schools, you have to be admitted separately to the university though. </p>
<p>Your GPA and test scores are not in range for most of the schools you listed, and that is before you add the audition component. Even if you get 1050 on the CR/M (that is going up 220 points (which is a LOT in a short time), you can’t get into NYU/Tisch or UMich or Columbia. Add in the GPA, and it is IMPOSSIBLE. </p>
<p>You would do much better to develop a college list where you have SOME chance of being admitted. </p>
<p>I am working with a musical theater applicant who currently has 920 on her CR/M but has an unweighted GPA of 3.8 (much better than yours) and a higher class rank than you. She is not going to be able to apply to NYU or UMich. They are out of reach for her, despite her originally having them on her list. They are definitely out of reach for you. Add in that she has extensive training in this field, and you appear not to have any training and simply have been in a school play (She has a full theater resume). My niece attends UMich’s BFA in Acting program and your qualifications are nowhere near hers in terms of academics, curriculum, or artistic background/training/credits. </p>
<p>Please read the theater and musical theater forums and look for colleges that fit your profile. Please understand the major differences in BA and BFA programs in terms of the programs themselves as well as the admission process, which are drastically different. Also, at many BFA programs, you cannot minor in writing.</p>