<p>StrangeBro - welcome! Please go ahead and start a new thread. You’ll get a lot more information.</p>
<p>As you’ve seen, we don’t try here to predict anyone’s results here on auditions; over the years it’s become clear that no matter what the resume, the roles played, camps attended, coaching, classes - we don’t know what the auditors would be looking for at any given time. In this friendly forum, we take the Lake Wobegon approach: We assume all of the kids are capable and talented, and above average!</p>
<p>But we’ll all help you with details and bits of advice we know about the various schools. Somewhere there’s a thread already about admissions stats, when we know them, since the only way to have a balanced list among the “more selective” and “slightly less selective” theatre schools is to have a clue how many they accept every year. Most of the well-known auditioned schools only take about 10% of applicants (with no real predicting for talent, experience, type or even gender). Some others take closer to 20%. These are very low admissions rates - pretty much like you’re applying to Ivies.</p>
<p>There are many wonderful schools that accept more like 25-35% of their auditioned applicants. These are the “slightly less selective” schools I mentioned. But if you think about it again in terms of regular college admissions, we’re still talking about trying to get into tier 1 schools - still no one’s safety, even though academically these theatre schools often are fairly easy to get into.</p>
<p>The only theatre “match,” “likely” or “safety” is where there is no audition, and you fit their admissions statistics otherwise. It looks like you’re going to have a very balanced list when you finish your searching. But you should separate the auditioned schools from the non-auditioned schools and try to have balanced chances within each group.</p>
<p>Good luck, and stay with us! We want to know how it goes.</p>