Both entrance and entry can be used to mean the act of entering. However, entrance is used especially when talking about a ceremony or performance, or about the right to enter.
to make an entrance onto the stage
an entrance examination
Britain's entry to EEC.
"No entry": road sign
Admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization.
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