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Sarahsmom42
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:49:32 +0000

I think rankings matter to many, they mattered to us when we were putting together the initial list, but I stress the word initial. Rankings are most often based on averages and formulas that don’t always apply to MT. “Success” in an engineering program is often based on the average $$$ paid to it’s grads. and the percentage of grads working after graduation as well as the number of hot research projects a given university has on the stove. This is not applicable to MT because success in the arts is more subjective.
We paid attention to play bills when we went to the theatre. We cared about which schools had the most students working on Broadway and national shows. We found that CCM, U Mich, CMU, Penn State, OCC, FSU, NYU, Ithaca, Northwestern, Bo Co & Elon had many working grads. In the end, my D only auditioned at six of these schools because other reasons became more important to us… The list of reasons is long and I won’t bore you, but my point is that ranking mattered at first, but in the end they were fairly insignificant.