<p>Where I teach each incoming musical theatre class is 8 - 10 students… there are 2 men in the senior class from the same high school, 2 men in the sophomore class from the same high school, 2 sisters in the program… one a freshman and one a junior… there may be others from the same high school as well that I am not remembering off the top of my head. It is really not a big deal at all. I can’t speak for all programs, but I don’t think this comes into the decision making process for most schools.</p>
<p>@ KatMT, and yes you accepted 2 girls from our high school last year. It does happen.</p>
<p>Hi Lulu63… yep, we did! :)</p>
<p>@soozievt - tend to agree with you. My eldest son was accepted ED 3 years ago in one of the “public ivies” that has more than 25% of student of color and students coming from more than 61 countries - diversity is a big aspect for this college. The HS guidance counsellor of my S would attribute his acceptance, aside from his academics achievements under the IBH curriculum, to his nationality and geographic location. May not be true for MT, though, unless for academic acceptance by the school - will see :)</p>
<p>To close the loop on this, my D just came back from a trip to Ithaca College, and there are two unrelated boys from the same town in North Dakota, AND two sisters (different ages) all in the MT program!</p>
<p>I didn’t see this thread before and just wanted to add that Ithaca accepted 4 kids from our small town this year. 2 for BFA MT and 2 for BFA Acting.
Although they each have multiple acceptances, it looks like they are ALL going. Good or bad? Hopefully it will be great!</p>
<p>Not MT related , but I know that some of the Ivy’s will only take one kid from each town.</p>
<p>But on the twins front, we had a set of twins from our HS who applied to Wesleyan together, and they only wanted to offer acceptance to one. They called the parents directly to discuss, as well as the guidance counselor to see if they should do that or should they just send rejections to both. I thought that was really proactive on their part! The one twin did accept and is very happy there, while his brother is very happy at Boston College! Great outcome for those twins.</p>
<p>md311mt, that is amazing! My D was surprised that Ithaca took the two kids from this other town last year…because they were both from North Dakota! What are the odds? I think this just reinforces everyone’s feeling that at least in performing arts, the schools are looking for talent and fit, regardless of where the kids are from. So, my hope is that anyone worried about this in next year’s round of applicants will be at ease and not have to add this to their list of worries. Because we all know that there is plenty of worry to go around in this process…no need to add another to the list!</p>
<p>D is transferring to another college after 2 years only to find that a student she graduated with is also transferring to the same mt program! What are the odds of that happening since this is not a large school. She had no idea this student was considering transferring and they did so for different reasons.</p>
<p>There are fraternal twin guys in my class- they definitely look a lot alike, but you can tell them apart very easily, and they are very different voice-wise and type-wise (although when I was in a show with both of them I kept getting them mixed up because for some reason they looked almost identical when wearing suits and fedoras). However, I am actually slightly surprised, knowing them, that they wanted to end up in the same program, because they are the type of brothers that get on each other’s nerves a lot- and they both applied to the program early decision! I remember our first day of acting class when we were all sitting in a circle introducing ourselves, and the twins started getting into an argument about something, as they often do. The entire class started cracking up, but our teacher was so confused and had NO idea what was going on because he hadn’t made the connection that the two guys were brothers, let alone twins!!</p>