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soozievt · 05-05-2008, 05:26 PM

Jacksdad,
Is your computation based on how many are accepted or how many slots available? Just checking as often I have seen other posters confuse these and tend to use number in the class in figuring out acceptance rate when it truly is how many are accepted (which at many programs is more than slots in the class). If you could clarify that for members, that would be great.

When viewing this list, I want to mention something that should be considered by those who are selecting schools to apply to. Acceptance rates do not tell the entire story. Some schools with a very low acceptance rate may be "easier" but NOT EASY to get into than others that also have a very low acceptance rate. The acceptance rate doesn't tell the entire picture. Certain schools draw from a more national pool of talent or a different pool of talent than some other schools. When creating a college list with a BFA applicant, I don't go simply by acceptance rate in helping to balance the list. Some of the BFA programs are harder to get into than others GENERALLY SPEAKING (but as we can see in some members' results, there are exceptions to that). I always worry about offending someone but CCM and CMU would be considered harder to get into, for example, than Point Park or Indiana even though they all have low admit rates. Of course there ARE exceptions as we have someone on this thread who was admitted to what tend to be known as harder schools to get into than Point Park and someone on this forum who got into CCM but not Indiana this year and so this is not a hard and fast rule of thumb. But my point is that admit rate alone is not the only factor in determining selectivity of a program and university because its talent pool will differ (some attract top national talent) and then of course there are factors like the academic selectivity of each program which varies widelly as well.

Lastly, on a different point, there is not a whole lot of difference between a 4% admit rate and an 8% admit rate as both are very very low and hard to get in! Most MUSICAL THEATER BFAs have acceptance rates in the single digits which suffice it to say, makes getting into almost all of them very very difficult and chancy!

05-05-2008, 05:26 PM	#54
soozievt CC College Counselor/Musical Theater Counselor Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,563	Jacksdad, Is your computation based on how many are accepted or how many slots available? Just checking as often I have seen other posters confuse these and tend to use number in the class in figuring out acceptance rate when it truly is how many are accepted (which at many programs is more than slots in the class). If you could clarify that for members, that would be great. When viewing this list, I want to mention something that should be considered by those who are selecting schools to apply to. Acceptance rates do not tell the entire story. Some schools with a very low acceptance rate may be "easier" but NOT EASY to get into than others that also have a very low acceptance rate. The acceptance rate doesn't tell the entire picture. Certain schools draw from a more national pool of talent or a different pool of talent than some other schools. When creating a college list with a BFA applicant, I don't go simply by acceptance rate in helping to balance the list. Some of the BFA programs are harder to get into than others GENERALLY SPEAKING (but as we can see in some members' results, there are exceptions to that). I always worry about offending someone but CCM and CMU would be considered harder to get into, for example, than Point Park or Indiana even though they all have low admit rates. Of course there ARE exceptions as we have someone on this thread who was admitted to what tend to be known as harder schools to get into than Point Park and someone on this forum who got into CCM but not Indiana this year and so this is not a hard and fast rule of thumb. But my point is that admit rate alone is not the only factor in determining selectivity of a program and university because its talent pool will differ (some attract top national talent) and then of course there are factors like the academic selectivity of each program which varies widelly as well. Lastly, on a different point, there is not a whole lot of difference between a 4% admit rate and an 8% admit rate as both are very very low and hard to get in! Most MUSICAL THEATER BFAs have acceptance rates in the single digits which suffice it to say, makes getting into almost all of them very very difficult and chancy!