How common for MT majors to go with a school that's academically less challenging?

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I agree. It seems like a brutal process and the audition season is in February, no less.

This is an old article about it, but still accurate, I think:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/education/edlife/theater.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0