College profile
American Musical and Dramatic Academy
NY · Private nonprofit · Large city · 6,580 applicants 2023
A parent's read
- Top feeder high schools: The Pembroke Hill School - Wornall Campus (1), Canterbury School (0.2), Oregon Episcopal School (0.2). Graduates per class year, from each high school's own published list. 3 high schools' lists name American Musical and Dramatic Academy; every one is ranked below.
- Ask the submit question deliberately. This college is test-optional — but at many such colleges, applicants who submit strong scores are admitted at meaningfully higher rates. “Optional” is a strategy decision, not a pass.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to American Musical and Dramatic Academy?
The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to American Musical and Dramatic Academy, from each school's own published list: The Pembroke Hill School - Wornall Campus (1), Canterbury School (0.2), Oregon Episcopal School (0.2). 3 high schools' lists name American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Enrolled — from the schools' matriculation lists
All 3 schools, with the class years each list covers
How this is counted
3 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name American Musical and Dramatic Academy on it. Between them they printed 3 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at American Musical and Dramatic Academy, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
Is my high school on this list?
Admitted — from the schools' acceptance lists
All 2 schools, with the class years each list covers
How this is counted
2 high schools publish a numbered list of college acceptances — where their graduates were admitted, not where they enrolled — and name American Musical and Dramatic Academy on it. Between them they printed 3 admissions. Ranked by admissions per class year to American Musical and Dramatic Academy, from each school's own published acceptances list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times — so this is a count of admissions, not of students. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, and a list whose class years we cannot read is listed below with its total rather than divided by a guess.
All 5 feeder schools, ranked →
Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
Parent/student verdict
SelectiveSelective but achievable for strong students.
Best for
- Strong overall academic profile (3.9+ unweighted GPA in rigorous coursework + strong essays — school is test-optional, so the transcript carries the most weight)
- Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience
The reality
- Test-optional — but selective. Transcript GPA, course rigor, and essays do the heavy lifting
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What American Musical and Dramatic Academy actually costs
Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by American Musical and Dramatic Academy's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.
Your odds + estimated cost across your whole college list, side by side.
Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.
What students study here
Most popular majors at American Musical and Dramatic Academy
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what American Musical and Dramatic Academy actually graduates — not just what it markets.
What those majors earn here
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — American Musical and Dramatic Academy's own graduates, not national averages.
| Major (CIP) | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|
| Dance. | $34,107 |
| Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft. | $32,008 |
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
Student body & economic mobility
Who attends here — and what the campus adds.
Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.
Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantAmerican Musical and Dramatic Academy is a private nonprofit four-year college in NY. It admitted 25% of applicants (6,580 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
Cost: $65,647 a year at full price, before aid.
Median earnings ten years after entry: $26,975 a year.
Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Dance ($34,107); Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft ($32,008).
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 7% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 10% of those reached the top fifth as adults.
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name American Musical and Dramatic Academy: 3, 3 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often The Pembroke Hill School - Wornall Campus (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Canterbury School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 6 class years, 2019-2024); Oregon Episcopal School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022-26). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/american-musical-and-dramatic-academy.
High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming American Musical and Dramatic Academy: 2, 3 admissions between them — ranked by admissions per class year, most often California School of the Arts — San Gabriel Valley (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column "Acceptances (Class of 2026)"); Mt Vernon Presbyterian School (0.1 per class year, 1 over 12 class years, 2014-2025, counted column "Number of Acceptances"). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/american-musical-and-dramatic-academy.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/american-musical-and-dramatic-academy.json
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.