<p>Michael, I just find this an odd way for schools to handle a budget for a department. Other schools manage to have small classes in a MT training program without having to collect fees from additional frosh and sophs whom they plan to cut from the school eventually but use the fees to fund the upper years of the program. I see that some of these cut programs (including the one that fish was quoting from) do use these additional students in the first two years as a way of gathering revenue. I just don’t think that is sound educational policy and I feel that other private schools find a way to fund these programs without doing it in this way.</p>
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<p>The thing about cuts is that there are stories of those who have been cut from BFA programs who have gone on to be successful in this field. A few were shared above but those are not the only ones. I don’t think the programs are the sole judge of who will make it and who won’t. Many who have been cut go onto to be successful. Likewise, many who are not cut, do not gain success on stage. I think the program’s main mission should be EDUCATION and TRAINING.</p>