| Prettyladie, I can't tell you anything about acceptance rates or what weight is placed on various areas in the acceptance process, but my son was thrilled when he was accepted at BW, and the acceptance came fairly soon after the audition in Nov.
I CAN tell you that BW may have had the very best audition day that we attended. During the auditions, they had special sessions and tours for parents (which many schools do), and they also fed the parents a most incredible lunch (which seemed rare in our experience). The lunch was probably what made me remember that day with such fondness! The parents were definitely kept separate from the students during the day.
I don't remember the students having an interview, unless it was just part of the song / monologue audition time, which I think often happens at most schools. It seems that they were divided into groups with a student leader in each group that made sure they got to everything on time. They played piano (which is for placement only, I think). They had assigned times to audition with songs and monologues. There was a master class (I won't get her name right, but I think Pam Myer, who was in the original Sondheim Company and sang Another Hundred People, and this was the musical BW was producing that weekend) with the students that the auditioning students also attended. They were given box lunches to eat before the master class. Then, it seems that the dance audition was last. Yes, it was a group dance that then was performed in small groups, I believe. I don't remember how hard my son said it was compared to other dance auditions, but I do think they consider the dance as part of the acceptance.
I believe he danced at 5 of his auditions, and I also seem to remember hearing that the dance auditions at Syracuse and Point Park were more advanced or perhaps harder. I'm assuming BW was somewhere in the middle of "hard" dance auditions. |