<p>EmsDad – I would love to see your previous number crunching, but the link to it isn’t showing up on my computer…</p>
<p>I’m the one who posted the numbers on post #14, but don’t have the stats background to actually crunch the numbers… I did the counting simply because I found the question interesting that you posed in #25 above…</p>
<p>Personally, I found the count helpful. My daughter (also 5’3") is not going to be a dancer primarily, but she <em>could</em> have the grades/test scores for Northwestern or Yale… and she <em>might</em> have the voice for Julliard… schools we would not have had our list. It also helps us to ascertain just how strong a given school’s connections to Broadway really are. Anyone can hold a senior showcase, but if that’s all a school can offer, is it enough? (We do our version of a senior showcase at the film school where I teach, and I spend a lot of time telling my students to lower their expectations.)</p>
<p>Hope it was helpful to someone else (anyone else!) as well…</p>