<p>You have some great schools on your list, but as snapdragonfly pointed out, they are all highly competitive. The fact that you are male makes the numbers more in your favor, but these programs take very few students overall. </p>
<p>NYU Tisch is a 50/50 school. Fifty percent of the application is based on academics and 50% is based on your audition. Carnegie Mellon bases the majority of the admission decision on your audition, not your academics. Northwestern is a non-audition program for admission to the university. You audition for the MT program at the end of your freshman (I believe) year. So you have a bit of everything just in those 3 schools. </p>
<p>What are you looking for in a school? The top of this forum has individual sub-forums for many of the MT programs (including ALL of the school s currently on your list) where you can go in and read about the schools, the MT programs specifically and the audition and admissions processes. And as snapdragonfly noted above, make sure you have a non-audition safety that you would love to attend on your list. Break a leg!</p>