Admission info

kevin17ym
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:00:47 +0000

i was going through this site and i found some information that said that cap 21, tisch of NYU accept 80 students out of about 900 students which is 9% admitting.
I also found that Tisch is not the only school that is the “under 10% super extreme” competitive school. In fact, there were so many!! Many other schools like University of Michigan and Boston Conservatory were under 10% admitting rate as well.
I would like to know why these musical theater schools are extremely competative to get in. I don’t get why many of these schools limit their number of students to a very little number. I would understand if only one or two schools were this competative and would think of them as “Oh, it’s one of the schools that are ridiculously competative” but i don’t get why MOST of the musical theater schools are ridiculously competative.
For example, for music conservatories, not all schools are under 10% admittance rate. I only know two music conservatories out of many out there that are under 10%; they are Juilliard and Curtis Institue of Music.
i do understand the fact that musical theater major is very popular and many people are competiting but isn’t like 10 musical theater schools having under 10% admittance rate a little too extreme? Does that mean there can only be less than 500 people in United States who can be a musical theater major from decent schools every year?
i would also like to know some of the musical theater schools that have around 20~30% admittance rate (IF there are ANY out there o.O).