<p>soozievt - I know you are very experienced in this field - which BFA programs are not as artistically competitive?</p>
<p>your D might want to audition at Emerson for both BFA and BA back-up?.</p>
<p>lkornfield- if you click on Musical Theater Schools, under Musical Theatre Major, and find the list of the schools in A=Z order, you will find out how many hits each schools has gotten. That may give you a very rough sense of which schools are more popular, and probably more competitive. If you find a BFA that’s not on the list, that might be another undiscovered jewel of a place that is probably not as competitive as yet. I could be wrong but this is one unscientific way to judge how difficult it might be to get into a school. If I’m totally wrong, I’m sure our CC friends will let us know! 
But be ye warned, even smaller audition programs which take only one dozen kids out of hundreds which apply can certainly be considered competitive!</p>