<p>Somewhere in CC land there is/was a thread that posted accept X# to yield Y# data at the various MT programs. I remember reading it a while back.</p>
<p>I’ve tried searching for it to no avail. Can anyone with mad searching skills that would put mine to shame help me find it and if we do find it, would it be worth updating if anything has changed based on what he learned this year? Thank you!</p>
<p>This thread is the one I think you mean, though it is several years old and could use some updating. It is one of the “featured discussions” that you can click on the MT Forum near the top (see “featured discussions” and click “more featured discussions” which gets you to some older featured discussions). </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/503504-audition-class-size-numbers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/503504-audition-class-size-numbers.html</a></p>
<p>@soozievt that is indeed the thread that I was looking for. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!</p>
<p>Keep in mind that these numbers are not audited and there is no way to verify them.</p>
<p>College admission’s offices do have a guideline on how they count applications to a university: the application needs to be “actionable.” In other words, it needs to be complete whereas the Office can deny or accept the student. One university recently got slapped for including all applications in their total - a much higher number than “actionable” applications.</p>
<p>I do not believe such a guideline exists for individual departments. So if a school has 800 audition spots, for instance, and all were filled but perhaps 80 people did not show up (10 percent) or changed their plans or got sick and cancelled, those applications would not be “actionable” because there was not a final audition. Unlike regular college applications, there are so many more parts to the MT process.</p>
<p>I do not know for sure and I have no direct knowledge, but my guess is the MT and theater departments would handle the counting of these applications differently as they are not trained admission staffers.</p>
<p>And that is probably more than most people want to know…</p>
<p>Maybe so, but it is entirely fascinating to a statistics junkie such as me!</p>
<p>I posted this in the theatre forum a month or so ago. I think it’s relevant: </p>
<p>*I have learned working in the recruitment office that it’s certainly easy to make audition numbers seem higher than they were. I don’t think any schools are trying to be shady by doing that or make themselves look better, but there are different ways to do the statistics.</p>
<p>At Coastal Carolina, we will see approximately 350 people on-campus or at our off-campus auditions in Chicago/Dallas specifically FOR CCU. However, if we added in the number of people we called back from NTDA, SETC, or other mass auditions, the number jumps to around 500. If we add the number of people we SAW at all of these unified auditions, the number of people “auditioning for us” becomes somewhere around 800. </p>
<p>It’s all relative. What I’ve really learned is that- getting into almost any auditioned program is a difficult task! At some point the difference between a school seeing 300 and 400 is not that massive if all they are accepting is still 20 kids to yield 10. Times is hard.*</p>
<p>I wonder, too, how schools would account for a student who applies and is accepted to the artistic program MT/Theater but is rejected academically?</p>
<p>Good point, since more often than not the admissions office seems completely clueless. We were getting calls about the virtues of several schools where she was rejected from the program well into August.</p>