<p>The ideal candidate? Hrmmm … I’m envisioning a tall, conventionally gorgeous white guy with undeniable talent and a pleasing personality who’s been acting his whole life, has at least a couple of years of solid pre-professional training under his belt, and some professional theatre experience plus has maintained an ‘A’ average throughout high school along with scoring high on the SAT and has a few national artistic, academic and leadership awards to his credit. Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. ;)</p>
<p>But who knows? There might be a couple of guys like that out there although it would be sheer mind taffy to worry about them. Just do the best you can with what you have. Besides, they might actually get a couple of rejections from schools that want to keep their yields high because they know they won’t attend. I went to one of the better arts high schools and saw several people get accepted to places like Juilliard and CMU but also get rejections from schools that would generally be considered a ways down the food chain.</p>