<p>OH MY!
...wow...I guess it's not over 'til it's over, then.</p>
<p>Yield means the number of kids accepted who actually enroll.</p>
<p>does anyone know about Penn State Theater program?</p>
<p>One of my good friends is a MT major at Penn State and he absolutely loves it. I know that they don't have an acting b.f.a. available though.</p>
<p>They are selective. My friend's class has about 12 people in it according to him and you have to audition in front of the freshmen class apparently. </p>
<p>But it was his top choice and he was accepted to Ithaca and Syracuse and a few other competitive schools that I fail to remember.
They also gave him a good amount of cash. But better than Syracuse who supplies 100 percent of financial need. </p>
<p>Nick</p>
<p>Please add:
Fordham - Acting: 38 freshman accepted to yield 20-25</p>
<p>Adding Fordham Info</p>
<p>BOSTON UNIVERSITY - 100 accepted to yield 40-45 (20-30 wait list)
CALARTS - 24
CARNEGIE MELLON - BFA Acting - 18
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY - BA Theatre 30-50, BFA Acting 10-15, BFA Screen Acting 10-15
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - BFA Acting - Admits 42 and cuts to 25 after first year.
EMERSON COLLEGE - BFA Acting - 23 (accept 50, but cut to 18 after sophomore year.)
EVANSVILLE - overaccepts and waitlists to yield 16 BFA Performance (10 boys, 6 girls); 10 BS Generalists; 10 Design/Tech; and 3 Theatre Management.
FORDHAM - BA THEATER Accepts 38 to yield 20-25
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN - 6 Acting
ITHACA - BFA Acting - 40 accepted to yield 20
JUILLIARD - Acting - 16-18
MINNESOTA/Guthrie - BFA Acting - Call back approximately 60 for March call back weekend - 20 accepted with wait list
MONTCLAIR STATE - BFA Acting - 14-16
NYU/Tisch - 375 (THIS INCLUES DIRECTING, TECHNICAL AND CAP 21)
OU - BFA Acting - 24
OTTERBEIN - BFA Acting - 8
POINT PARK - BA Acting - 30-50 (conflicting information)
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMEY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA - 22 Acting (3-4 from the US)
RUTGERS Mason Gross - BFA Acting - 24 accepted to yield 18
SMU - BFA Acting 12-15, BFA Theatre Studies 12-15
SUNY PURCHASE - BFA Acting - 16-18
SYRACUSE UNIV - BFA Acting - 20-25
TCU - Acting - 20 accepted to yield 10
UCLA - 65 Acting and MT (Acting is 32 freshman, and Juniors another 15 acting)
UIC - BFA Acting - 16; BA Acting - 16
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN/URBANA - BFA Acting accepts 30 to yield 20-25 ---- MFA Acting 10 (only once every 3 years...this was the year to audition for the next 3 year MFA class)
UNCSA - BFA Acting - 28-32 spots with around 10 spots for girls.
USC - BFA Acting- 26-30 accepted to yield 20 - has no wait list
WEBSTER - BFA Acting - 25-28</p>
<p>This probably isn't the right thread, but I can't find the right one---My 10th grade daughter is interested in straight acting only. Having gone through this process before with an older child, I am pretty familiar with east coast schools, and a few others like Guthrie and U of Mich., but I am absolutely unfamiliar with California schools. She thinks she may be interested in CA. Can anyone tell me or direct me to the right thread on this--what are considered the really good theatre schools in CA? Are there any that focus more on straight acting? Thanks so much.</p>
<p>USC (BA and BFA - audition) UCLA (BA - audition) CalArts (BFA - audition) Chapman (BA - audition) Loyola Marymount (BA no audition) Some of the other University of California's have BA's in theatre but they are strictly scores and GPA based entrance.</p>
<p>I'll add to that list and comment on some of them as I'm a California with a D who got into many of them this year...</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine are both considered outstanding, but you don't audition until the end of your freshman year. You still put down drama as your major, and are "accepted" into the major when you are accepted into the school. What happens if you don't have a good audition at the end of your freshman year, I don't know.....UCSB is getting more and more competitive to get into. UCI and UCSB are upper middle tier UC schools. You need to have a good GPA and good SAT's to get in. These were my D's two nonaudition schools and she got into both of them.</p>
<p>UCLA (together with Cal is the top tier UC schools) - well, they accept 100 overall a year. That includes 30 Freshman Acting, 30 Freshman Musical Theatre, and 15 junior transfers in both MT and Acting, and then a few extras just in case people turn them down. I have heard numbers as varied as 2500 apply, and 1500 put in the supplemental application, and 700-800 actually audition. My D was accepted into acting. She had a 4.22 UC GPA. She was an AP Scholar with Honors. Her GPA was not that great (1840). But it is 80% Audition. This is not a traditional conservatory. It is a BA program.</p>
<p>My D was also accepted to CalArts. This is really about the audition. They are very nice people. They have since called my daughter many, many times to "recruit" her and make sure she accepts the offer. She is now seriously considering it. But the campus looks a little like a high school. It is in the middle of Valencia.... kinda dull.</p>
<p>Chapman - my D has many, many friends who graduated last year and got into Chapman. This is an ADORABLE campus. The street around the corner looks like main street USA in Disneyland. They love the program and are very happy. However, these kids did not successfully audition to get into other programs like Emerson, USC, UCLA and NYU. I don't know if that means anything though. I personally always thought these kids were very talented. One of them in particular I am sure is bound for Saturday Night Live. She is an amazingly gifted comedic actor... but this year Chapman compelled her to take on a dramatic role and I like that. They seem to take you out of your comfort zone.</p>
<p>I don't know anyone who is going to Loyola Marymount. My D has a friend who was accepted to the film program there.</p>
<p>Also outstanding but requiring less high grades and no audition are CSU Fullerton and SF State. You should be able to find threads on Fullerton, which had some interesting comments made about it in the past, which I can't speak on. They have a beautiful new theatre complex that was just opened I believe last year. SF State has a program that works with the Fremont Shakespeare Festival which gives actors the chance to do real work... and let's be honest... its in S.F. which scores mega points. Both have highly regarded programs for just actors.</p>
<p>Coming in behind those is CSU Long Beach (that's where Spielberg went when he dropped out of USC.) My D has two friends who are in the program at CSU Long Beach right now and they like it very much. They do things like Viewpoints...the usual. Again, no audition, lower GPA requirements.</p>
<p>that is pretty much all the decent acting programs that my D and I could find in California.</p>
<p>I didn't say anything about USC. Its an amazing program, I know. But my D visited the campus and could not bring herself to go there. The number one public high school that feeds into USC is in our neighborhood. She thought to herself that she wanted something different for college... to meet a different kind of person than the kids she went to h.s. with, and I can't argue with her logic. College is about new and different things..... Besides, she would probably give her Grandpa a coronary if she went to USC - he's a Notre Dame grad...</p>
<p>Thanks so much.--this really helps.</p>
<p>Adding CCM Acting. I get the impression the class is small. Around 18-20, and even smaller if kids "leave" after "boards."</p>
<p>BOSTON UNIVERSITY - 100 accepted to yield 40-45 (20-30 wait list)
CALARTS - 24
CARNEGIE MELLON - BFA Acting - 18
CCM Acting - 18-20
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY - BA Theatre 30-50, BFA Acting 10-15, BFA Screen Acting 10-15
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - BFA Acting - Admits 42 and cuts to 25 after first year.
EMERSON COLLEGE - BFA Acting - 23 (accept 50, but cut to 18 after sophomore year.)
EVANSVILLE - overaccepts and waitlists to yield 16 BFA Performance (10 boys, 6 girls); 10 BS Generalists; 10 Design/Tech; and 3 Theatre Management.
FORDHAM - BA THEATER Accepts 38 to yield 20-25
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN - 6 Acting
ITHACA - BFA Acting - 40 accepted to yield 20
JUILLIARD - Acting - 16-18
MINNESOTA/Guthrie - BFA Acting - Call back approximately 60 for March call back weekend - 20 accepted with wait list
MONTCLAIR STATE - BFA Acting - 14-16
NYU/Tisch - 375 (THIS INCLUES DIRECTING, TECHNICAL AND CAP 21)
OU - BFA Acting - 24
OTTERBEIN - BFA Acting - 8
POINT PARK - BA Acting - 30-50 (conflicting information)
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMEY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA - 22 Acting (3-4 from the US)
RUTGERS Mason Gross - BFA Acting - 24 accepted to yield 18
SMU - BFA Acting 12-15, BFA Theatre Studies 12-15
SUNY PURCHASE - BFA Acting - 16-18
SYRACUSE UNIV - BFA Acting - 20-25
TCU - Acting - 20 accepted to yield 10
UCLA - 65 Acting and MT (Acting is 32 freshman, and Juniors another 15 acting)
UIC - BFA Acting - 16; BA Acting - 16
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN/URBANA - BFA Acting accepts 30 to yield 20-25 ---- MFA Acting 10 (only once every 3 years...this was the year to audition for the next 3 year MFA class)
UNCSA - BFA Acting - 28-32 spots with around 10 spots for girls.
USC - BFA Acting- 26-30 accepted to yield 20 - has no wait list
WEBSTER - BFA Acting - 25-28</p>
<p>Chrissyblu,</p>
<p>I am waiting for an acceptance from USC. If I don’t get in I am looking for some other options. I liked your post about the CA schools. You mention CSU Fullerton and SF State. I don’t have the highest GPA. Do you have any feedback for Santa Monica College, my USC counselor recommended it if I don’t get in.</p>
<p>I’m afraid I don’t have much knowledge about Santa Monica other than it has a great location, but it is a community college. There are concerns with the community college route. </p>
<p>My D was considering that route. You need to make sure the program you are “feeding into” accepts you as a junior. UCLA, CSU Fullerton and SF State I believe will do this. (double check.) Also look into UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara. (Don’t give me the “I don’t have good enough grades for UC” line. Community College is your chance to fix that.) </p>
<p>Other programs, like CMU and CCM I believe, make you start all over again as a transfer. You don’t have to do your general ed again, but conservatories don’t have much general ed, so who cares? They make you enter the program as almost a freshman. Now you are in college for 6 years. Bummer. So be sure all programs you are looking at accept you as a true junior.</p>
<p>All junior colleges have a program called IGETC or Intersegmental General Educational Transfer Curriculum. If you want to transfer into a CSU or UCLA you will need a program that is certified to meet IGETC. Work with your junior college counselor to make sure your chosen courseload meets the requirements. This is in addition to your acting classes. Its a true general education program. </p>
<p>I would also recommend that you supplement what you learn from your community college program with outside actor training. Be very careful in LA. There are a lot of fly by night programs out there. But there are some very good ones, in Santa Monica as well. Do extra. At the UCLA auditions, we saw a lot of freaked out transfers. You want to be the cool, composed one.</p>
<p>I commend you for thinking about what you will do if things don’t quite go as planned. Life throws us all curve balls, but those are the ones we often hit the furthest out of the park. Break a leg! (not literally) :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know the acceptance rate for University of the Arts?</p>
<p>chrissyblu,</p>
<p>I sent you a private message. Thank you much for the great information. Your Fabulous!</p>
<p>BOSTON UNIVERSITY - 100 accepted to yield 40-45 (20-30 wait list)
CALARTS - 24
CARNEGIE MELLON - BFA Acting - 18
CCM Acting - 18-20
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY - BA Theatre 30-50, BFA Acting 10-15, BFA Screen Acting 10-15
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY - BFA Acting - Admits 42 and cuts to 25 after first year.
EMERSON COLLEGE - BFA Acting - 23 (accept 50, but cut to 18 after sophomore year.)
EVANSVILLE - overaccepts and waitlists to yield 16 BFA Performance (10 boys, 6 girls); 10 BS Generalists; 10 Design/Tech; and 3 Theatre Management.
FORDHAM - BA THEATER Accepts 38 to yield 20-25
HARTT - 15
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN - 6 Acting
ITHACA - BFA Acting - 40 accepted to yield 20
JUILLIARD - Acting - 16-18
MINNESOTA/Guthrie - BFA Acting - Call back approximately 60 for March call back weekend - 20 accepted with wait list
MONTCLAIR STATE - BFA Acting - 14-16
NYU/Tisch - 375 (THIS INCLUES DIRECTING, TECHNICAL AND CAP 21)
OU - BFA Acting - 24
OTTERBEIN - BFA Acting - 8
POINT PARK - BA Acting - 30-50 (conflicting information)
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMEY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA - 22 Acting (3-4 from the US)
RUTGERS Mason Gross - BFA Acting - 24 accepted to yield 18
SMU - BFA Acting 12-15, BFA Theatre Studies 12-15
SUNY PURCHASE - BFA Acting - 16-18
SYRACUSE UNIV - BFA Acting - 20-25
TCU - Acting - 20 accepted to yield 10
UCLA - 65 Acting and MT (Acting is 32 freshman, and Juniors another 15 acting)
UIC - BFA Acting - 16; BA Acting - 16
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN/URBANA - BFA Acting accepts 30 to yield 20-25 ---- MFA Acting 10 (only once every 3 years…this was the year to audition for the next 3 year MFA class)
UNCSA - BFA Acting - 28-32 spots with around 10 spots for girls.
USC - BFA Acting- 26-30 accepted to yield 20 - has no wait list
WEBSTER - BFA Acting - 25-28</p>
<p>Any BA or BFA numbers for Penn State?</p>
<p>Question: If you apply to BU ED for theatre, are they one of the schools that 9 times out of 10 will reject or defer you to see who else auditions for them?</p>
<p>Well seeing as they accept 9 out of 10 students that seems to about right. When they audition you, they use a scoresheet that they fill out, so the numbers stay the same whether it’s ED or not. I know three girls who got in ED for Theatre this year, so if it’s your top choice and you can afford it without needing to see the financial aid offer, it’d be worth it to me :)</p>
<p>BU doesn’t accept 9 students out of every 10 who audition!</p>