<p>We do indeed have 5 BFA students and 2 BM students in the freshmen class. We do accept more then we hope to enroll.</p>
<p>Michele</p>
<p>It sounds like they “took” 15 to yield 7, which is pretty close to what most programs do. I’ve heard they usually take double what they expect to yield. Still very small but not as crazy small as 5 students sounded.</p>
<p>This clarifies and is in agreement with what my daughter was told.</p>
<p>Sorry if I came across making some generalization about number of faculty in a small program. For one thing, we are all defining “small” differently. Gwen, I don’t think your daughter’s program is all that small. It sounds more like the average size MT program (24 students per year). </p>
<p>It would seem, but one must check directly, that a program with 5-8 students per year in a MT class, MAY have a very small number of singing, acting, and dance teachers unless perhaps the school also has other programs that these faculty teach in such as dance, voice and acting majors. At SOME programs there are just a handful of faculty for the MT department because it is very small. I was simply contrasting that experience (one is not better than the other) with a very large program where the students will have a variety of vocal, dance, and acting teachers over the course of four years because the program is large and needs to employ a much larger faculty.</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks for clarifying!</p>
<p>It’s why researching individual programs is so important! There are so many variables that can come into play. For example, at CCU, the MT students take private voice lessons with faculty from the department of music. So if you look at the faculty listing for the CCU department of theatre, you don’t actually see the amazing voice faculty listed.</p>
<p>And, some schools do not disclose on their website that they have graduate students teaching the kids voice for their freshman years, and in one case I know of, freshman AND sophomore years. You have to ask questions of each school. We learned (after flying a long distance for an audition) that one school on my D’s list not only used grad students to teach voice for the first 2 years, but only had one voice teacher for all the students the remaining 2 years. Another popular program only has one acting teacher for all 4 years. Yet another school had a very strict cut program that was not stated clearly on their website, and was only disclosed with very pointed questions during the tour. ASK QUESTIONS, and be specific, until you get the answer.</p>
<p>monkey13, what are the schools you are talking about that use grad students to teach voice? Also the one that has only a single acting coach? That would be a big turn off to my D. Thanks!</p>
<p>lcoulter, I sent you a private message. :)</p>
<p>I’ve got to chime in about grad students – there is a world of difference between random grad students who just finished their undergraduate degrees, and grad students who are in the later stages of a Ph.D. vocal pedagogy program, often after returning to school later in life after a career in performance and/or teaching. So that’s part of what you would need to find out about.</p>
<p>Prodesse, I agree. But the questions should be asked.</p>
<p>This thread, in particular the data in post #7 by emsdad, is very useful as we try weed through the many options and start to narrow down to perhaps a dozen or so schools. It is probably too much to ask, but are any there lists of how many, or what fraction of graduates from various schools get professional work?</p>