<p>I know there are some, like Elon, where you can be admitted to the university as a whole without being admitted as a musical theatre major. And then I know there are schools where you cannot. I was wondering if anyone knew of any other schools that were like Elon?</p>
<p>For the record, I know that you must be academically accepted to schools, but I'm wondering, if, say, I auditioned somewhere (like Elon), and was not accepted (my audition isn't even until Feb, this isn't my story) for musical theatre, that I could still choose to attend the university.</p>
<p>There are many schools where you can be academically accepted but not artistically accepted. University of Cincinnati, Point Park University, Roosevelt University, University of Hartford, etc. Best wishes!</p>
<p>Yes, you can be academically admitted (but rejected from MT) and still attend at all of the above, as well as: Ball State, Indiana, Syracuse, Emerson, Ithaca, Florida State, Oklahoma City University, Baldwin Wallace…it tends to be the rule, not the exception. Even places like Otterbein, so long as you indicate that you are interested in a major OTHER THAN musical theater, you can be academically accepted, while being rejected from the MT program. If, however, you indicate that MT is your ONLY major of interest, and you get rejected from the BFA program, the University will also reject you.</p>
<p>Coastal Carolina University as well. You can be accepted either the university of the theatre department before being accept to the other. (if that makes any sense)</p>
<p>I know my daughter has been accepted academically at Elon, Ball State, Western Michigan, Florida State and Webster and she hasn’t even done auditions yet for the majority of these schools.</p>
<p>xoemmie, I would think that if you really want to do MT and were not accepted into any audition BFA programs, it would be better to have a non-audition safety school where you could be an MT major rather than choose some other major in any of the schools listed above.</p>
<p>I know a couple of people who are using that strategy as a back-up plan and agree completely. There are so many good schools to study theater that are non-auditon I don’t know why anyone that was rejected from the program would want to attend that school in another major. That sounds miserable and apart from the theater program most of these schools are not all that notable are they?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. For example a potential backup plan for my D should she not get into MT would be to go to a place like Ball State, where she could get a BA in theater and minor in voice or something like that. Or reaudition for the BFA. They also have one of the best communication and film schools in the country should she decide to use her performing talents in those areas. Of the schools my D has been accepted to academically, I have been very impressed with many of their non-BFA MT programs. Plus some are offering her pretty good merit scholarships just off her academics alone. I have had so many people tell me that she should major in something other than MT, but keep up with a voice and/or acting minor, as a path towards her ultimate performing goal, it makes my head spin. So I don’t think backups like that would necessarily curtail her goals in any way.</p>
<p>And to clarify, my D would of course want a BFA MT spot above all else, and is working hard towards that end. And I have every confidence she will find that spot.</p>
<p>^^^As a heads up, you’d be surprised at the extent to which these HS seniors… barely 18, lovely well rounded students with excellent grades etc. who are dying to study MT will say all of that about academic options at good schools and absolutely not know that they don’t mean it until push comes to shove. The MT audition process is such an investment for everyone. It is really hard to walk away from that goal after everything they go through to chase it. Even if it comes down to a mediocre MT program at a school well down the list vs. a second choice but related major at a hot academic school.</p>