<p>My son’s first audition was at UArts (where he matriculated). There were 4 times as many girls auditioning for the acting BFA (roughly 16 girls, and 4 boys, out of 20 in the group). Half were called back (ie. eight girls, and two boys). He says that the male-female ratio in his freshman class is surprisingly high, and so the numbers might not have been representative, or the ultimate acceptance and yield rates skewed heavily male. I have to presume that many girls who were called back were ultimately rejected, whereas most boys called back were accepted. He was surprised by how even the ratio was at his DePaul audition, and said that other schools he auditioned for fell somewhere in between. Boys might not audition for as many schools, assuming that they have a built-in advantage, leading to greater gender imbalance at auditions for second-tier programs. That was certainly my son’s experience: he only auditioned for six schools, with a non-audition safety and two liberal arts BA programs added to the mix.</p>