@Boilermom and @MTfamily1 - a clarification on nomenclature:
“Acceptance Rate” is based on the number of offers extended vs. the number auditioning, not the number enrolled vs. the number auditioning. No school, not even CMU, has a “Yield” of 100% (ratio of offers accepted divided by the number of offers extended) except in extremely rare circumstances. Yields for MT programs are typically 20-60% so Acceptance Rates are usually at least 2-3 times the target enrollment rate in order to get a class of the desired size.
For example:
Based on numbers that Boco quoted at the parent meeting when my d auditioned for them , they said that they auditioned around 1000, made offers to 200 or so, and ended up with a class of around 60. So, their Acceptance Rate was around 20% and their Yield was about 30%.
Based on what I have observed, it is not unusual for MT programs to inflate their audition numbers and understate the actual numbers of offers extended.
The numbers that are quoted in post #11 are real data points, albeit from an arguably relatively small sample set.