HELP...Is AP calc. crucial for Senior Year?

soozievt
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:28:44 +0000

hollins, I am not nickmtmom but I am assuming she was referring to ACADEMIC acceptances and not being admitted to every BFA in MT program her son applied to (given she shared his results on CC back at the time).

While I agree with a lot of what nickmtmom wrote in her post, I will clarify a couple things. One is that NYU is more academically selective than the schools nickmtmom mentions (Penn State, Elon, UMich). Further, the admissions to the BFA program at NYU/Tisch involves a decision that is based 50% on academics and 50% on the audition, which is not the exact same process at all other programs. Further, I don’t know what she means about being accepted to UMich even academically as that is not how the BFA admissions process works at UMich. UMich has an academic screening before inviting the applicant to audition. Being invited to audition is not equivalent with an academic acceptance (the applicant is NOT admitted to UMich academically and could not attend as a non-MT major, in other words…which is different from Elon which has a separate academic and BFA admissions process). Passing the academic screening at UMich simply means that the candidate’s academic profile would not knock him/her entirely out of the running and would at least be considered. But once the student goes through the audition process for the BFA in MT, their entire profile is examined, including academic, and as it is a very competitive program, the stronger academic student has an edge over a weaker one, even one who made it past the initial academic screening.