<p>Purchase, like Juilliard and any other true conservatory is definitely tough. Generally speakiing these programs will not tolerate anything less that a B average, and they won’t be happy about that. If you are ill and not totally incapacitated you are expected to attend classes, whether you are able to participate or not. These are not programs that give any quarter. People not performing up to standards will be invited to leave.</p>
<p>The list does not include UCLA (which has been ranked #1 in acting by the Princeton Review and the Gourman Report) or USC. It is TWO YEARS OLD. It considers Minnesota Guthrie and Boston University also rans? And it does not mention Boston College, which for MT is killer. And some say CCM is a rising star…</p>
<p>So, as many, many people have stated over and over again on these posts, list don’t account for anything.</p>
<p>Great info. Our tour guide at Juilliard this summer said her class was 18 split by gender so the acceptance was 9 per M or F. I’ve heard about 2000 submit apps, 1000 are invited to audition and like a lot of top schools, the apps tend to be self-selecting (i.e. the best students are the ones that apply).</p>
<p>At Purchase you don’t audition every year to stay in. What are you talking about? Please don’t speak on what you don’t know first hand. That program is great! Their teachers are right from the New York theater community. There are teachers who teach at Purchase who also teach at Juilliard, NYU and Rutgers.</p>
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<p>Updating for Fordham’s BA Class of 2014…</p>
<p>I don’t know how many were accepted but there are a total of 20 Theatre majors: 17 in the Performance track, 1 in the Directing track and 2 in the Design/Production track. Nobody was accepted strictly as a Playwriting major although my S is still being considered for it to double with Performance. I’m not sure he’s still interested though…I think he’s leaning towards English now but we’ll see. </p>
<p>Fordham DOES have a Warn/Cut policy but it is not a numbers game as in some other schools. </p>
<p>From their website:<br>
“Fordham Theatre Program has a policy called warn/cut. In cases when the faculty has doubts about whether a student should continue in their major, he or she is given a warning. The student then has another semester to dispel the questions. If after the following semester the evaluation remains the same, then the student has the option of remaining a Theatre Minor but must declare another major.”</p>
<p>If anyone (Class of 2015?) is interested in any further info on Fordham Theatre, auditions, what my S’s schedule of Theatre/core classes looks like, why he wanted a BA, etc., please feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>Fordham Lincoln Center takes about 20-25 freshmen from what I’ve heard (mostly performance with a few design, playwriting and directing) and we were told they audition around 600.</p>
<p>frozenchosenak:
I will agree that the RSAMD is amazing, but please do not endorse lists and rankings to people who are new to this whole process. The list includes some very great schools, but fails to even mention RADA which many here in the US will consider to be the British Juilliard as well as many other very well known and connected schools. It is also a list mixed of Undergraduate and Graduate programs. The best advice you can give anyone is to research the many programs out there and find the one that fits them best and to overlook rankings. I feel that a program is only as good as how right it fits for the student. </p>
<p>Please do not use rankings and numbers as a way to sell the program. The best help you can do is to describe the program and what the training there is like–what do students study there and how it is unique from other programs out there, etc. </p>
<p>Just please do not put so much weight on rankings. I’ve gone through this process twice now, and have worked so hard to overlook rankings and whatnot. As long as a program had a reputation for graduating well trained actors, I didn’t bother to see where it was ranked. It definitely helped me in the end cause I chose the best fit, not what was ranked the highest on some imaginary list…cause each person has a different set of criteria o what is the “best”.</p>
<p>Very well put!</p>
<p>UCLA only accepted 12-14 MT majors this year with one additional junior transfer. I believe they only took 16 acting students. I’m not sure if acting took any transfers, but I know they didn’t take anywhere near the 65 listed here total for both programs.</p>
<p>There may be a difference between the number of freshmen who enroll in a program and the number accepted to yield that number… ex. 200 audition and a a school accepts 40 to yield a class of 20. Most schools will be more willing to share these stats with you if asked.</p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>I haven’t read this entire thread but I do have the number of acting BFAs for the Class of 2014 at Syracuse: 30</p>
<p>Editing UCLA, which halved its class with this years incoming Freshman.</p>
<p>BOSTON UNIVERSITY - 100 accepted to yield 40-45 (20-30 wait list) – 2009 accepted 90 with a yield of 52.
CALARTS - 24 (audition 400 plus, accept 30 to yield 24)
CARNEGIE MELLON - BFA Acting - 18 (28-30 with mt students who share acting class)
CCM Acting - 18-20 (auditioned around 128)
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 16 after sophomore year.)
EVANSVILLE(Univ. of) - overaccepts and waitlists to yield 16 BFA Performance (10 boys, 6 girls); 10 BS Generalists; 10 Design/Tech; 2 Education; 4 stage management and 3 Theatre Management.
FORDHAM - BA THEATER Accepts 38 to yield 20-25
HARTT - 15
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN - 6 Acting;
(2009 freshman classes has 5 BFA actors, 7 BFA MTs, 3 BFA tech, and 9 non-audition BAs)
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 - 15
SMU - Accepted 50 to yield 12-15 BFA Acting, 12-15 BFA Theatre Studies
SUNY PURCHASE - BFA Acting - 16-18
SYRACUSE UNIV - BFA Acting - 20-25
TCU - Acting - 20 accepted to yield 10
UCLA - approx. 30 Acting/MT (Acting is 15 freshman, and Juniors another 2 acting; auditioned 700-800; Not sure if halving the class is permanent or just a temporary budget cut.)
UIC - BFA Acting - 16; BA Acting - 16
UMiami- BFA Acting- 6
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-</p>
<p>Bumping an old thread which has really valuable information for anyone new to the board</p>
<p>for the USC BA, I think there are maybe 100-140 freshman in the program. My acting class had 13 people in it. I know that this year’s BFA class is pretty big, too, I think more than 20 people.</p>
<p>Northwestern is missing from the list, but it’s tough to know how to add it since their incoming theatre class includes actors, MT folks, designers, techies, teachers and pure academics. The total incoming class is 50 men and 50 women, but it’s hard to say how many can be considered acting students.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>^^^I think the list is primarily meant to be audition based programs. To include non-audition programs, the list would be miles long.</p>
<p>Ooops – went back to the OP and you are absolutely correct.</p>
<p>Nevermind!</p>
<p>I bumped the thread because if things change, or we learn that things change over the course of the next couple of months, hopefully we can keep it current. Plus, I wish I’d seen it last year at this time when son was starting to consider schools. Not that it would have changed anything, but it is nice to know the info!</p>
<p>Don’t you wish that the folks who keep asking our kids “so, where are you going to school?” knew these stats? Maybe they’d stop asking :o)</p>
<p>Anyone know for University of Michigan Ann Arbor? :)</p>