<p>Most BFA audition based MT programs will have acceptance rates of below 10%, some as low as 2-3% and many hovering in the 6-8% range. There is another featured thread that reports anecdotally the application/acceptance/class size numbers for many schools which you may find to offer some interesting perspectives.</p>
<p>There’s much more to the process than the “numbers” though. Coming up with a well diversified list of schools that offers a broad spectrum of national/regional talent pools, large/smaller numbers of applicants, small/larger class size, weight given to academics and including a couple of non-audition BA programs that are a strong academic match is important to significantly increasing the likelihood of success.</p>
<p>Of the schools on your list, I am personally familiar only with Ithaca and Syracuse and I think the 2 of them are a good contrasting complement to each other because of the differences in freshman class size and related acceptance ratios. Just to illustrate the type of diversity I am talking about, my daughter applied to 5 BFA programs CMU, University of the Arts, Syracuse, Ithaca, Emerson and 1 BA program Muhlenberg. If you plug them in on the the matrix of criteria I’ve described above, it’s a small but decent cross section. My daughter was a very strong academic match for all of them which enabled us to focus on the diversity of the audition related factors. You might find it helpful to go through the same evaluative process for the schools on your list.</p>