<p>Hello,
Any suggestions for either non-audtion mt safety schools OR programs where you first audition just for the theater program, then audition (at the end of freshman or sophomore year) for the mt program?
Thanks!</p>
<p>No school with a required audition either for the MT or Theater program can truly be considered a safety. A program where you are an academic and financial match that does not require an audition would be a safety. However, you will find that there are some schools that require a audition that draw from a less national pool of applicants and have a higher admit rate than some of the top MT/ Theatre schools. These are often good to have on you list as well. In terms of schools that do not require an audition. Muhlenburg, Columbia College of Chicago, and Desales come to mind. Depending on your grades and stats these schools may or may not be safeties for you. Christopher Newport does not require an audition for incoming freshmen. Students audition for the MT track at the end of their freshman year I believe. I think Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine work similarly, with students auditioning at the end of the first or second year for the BFA MT program. James Madison has a required audition for the MT program, but a student who is admitted to the school academically, but not the MT program may attend in another major concentration. I teach at JMU, we have quite a few students who audition for MT, are admitted to the university, but not the MT concentration who come to JMU in the Theatre concentration. University of NH has not required an audition for the MT program in the past, but I would check the website to confirm this is still the case. Plymouth State University, also in NH, does require an audition, but is worth looking at.</p>
<p>I just want to caution that the term “safety” is relative to each individual. One student’s safety may be another student’s reach school. Just because a school has no audition, in other words, doesn’t make it “safe”. So, nobody can truly list “safety schools” for you but could list schools that have no audition to be admitted as a freshmen and then you would have to look up the admit rate and the stats of admitted students to determine where you fall. </p>
<p>Kat gave you some schools to look into (may or may not be safe for you). I will clarify that UNH has a MT program (BA) with NO audition. </p>
<p>The only thing that I do not agree with that Kat wrote (though her post is great and helpful), is that a safety is not where you are an academic “match”. A match school is a school in your ballpark where your stats fit that of accepted students, as well as the school does not have a very low admit rate. But that just means you have a 50-50 chance basically…it is a target school, not a reach but also not a sure bet safety. A safety school is one where you will have little problem being admitted. Your safety schools are still very good schools and are “safe” only in terms of your chances. A safety is where your academic stats fall above the 75%tile range of admitted students to that school, and not where you are simply in the ballpark. I suggest you find two safety schools (non-audition) that you truly like.</p>
<p>Theatregirl123, it’s great that you have wonderful questions to ask, but you need to take the time to read lots of information that has already been posted in this forum. You can use the search engine in the upper right hand corner and post words like “nonaudition”, “application” etc. to find your answers. All the good questions you have asked CC have already been very thoughtfully answered. I spent hours reading through the threads before I ever asked any questions, and found that most of mine could be answered through the process.</p>
<p>Good to know the terminology… I thought that match and safety meant the same thing. Thanks! :)</p>