Coaching can be fabulous, but it is NO guarantee. I coach high school students myself and even though many of these department heads are my friends, my students don’t always get in. One particular student comes to mind. I sent her to audition for everyone that I thought would like her (knowing the kinds of students they tend to recruit). She was rejected from all but one of those schools. The feedback I got on her was all positive, they just happened to either already have other girls who looked like her, or they saw someone who was slightly better and they went in that direction. That’s what happens. This is an INSANELY competitive major right now.
Compare the following numbers:
Harvard medical school had 6,614 applicants and admitted 231 for a 3.5% admittance rate.
According to threads on this forum:
CCM auditioned 650, admitted 25 for a 3.8% admittance rate
University of Michigan auditioned 850, admitted 22 for a 2.5% admittance rate
Otterbein auditioned 600, admitted 8 for a 1.3% admittance rate
Carnegie Mellon rumored to audition around 1,000, admitted 12 for a 1.2% admittance rate
So essentially, it is as equally difficult to get into CCM as a MT major as it is to get into Harvard Medical School and it is harder to get into UMich, Otterbein, and Carnegie Mellon for musical theatre than it is to get into medical school at Harvard.
That’s a little sobering and surprising even to me.
~VT