<p>ponornica,
I tried to do a search for discussions about Canadian Colleges but had no luck. I think if you did one with specific names you would make out better. Here are results when I searched for McGill: [College</a> Confidential - Search Results](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=26021667]College”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=26021667)</p>
<p>Just wanted to share: Son’s first acceptance arrived Saturday from Auburn! And the mail came right as Auburn was making its great comeback over Alabama :o)</p>
<p>Hurray! What a thrill!</p>
<p>Ponornica,
If Chicago is not too far for you and your son, maybe Loyola or DePaul in the city, or Lake Forest, in the north suburbs of Chicago? A friend has twins at Lake Forest and believes the school is severely underrated…a very good school for late bloomers, and a lot of special opportunities because of its Chicago location.</p>
<p>Ponornica, Hood College (MD) is next to the hospital in Frederick, MD.<br>
A lovely campus, too.</p>
<p>UVAHoo - Congratulations!! Auburn is a great college!</p>
<p>UVa-Congrats to your S!</p>
<p>Thanks, all! We’re excited for him and he’s relieved :o)
Emmybet–will keep you posted as we go along: he doesn’t start auditioning for schools until January</p>
<p>Yes, good luck with that! Please keep us posted.</p>
<p>D has 3 auditions scheduled so far. One more should be easy to set up (once she gets the last bit of app in); one is being a terrible hassle and may fall through, and the last one I’m fearing may get nixed because she waited so long to apply (they regularly fill their auditions slots early). We’ll see! But the three she has are very exciting to her and hopefully will yield some options. She has a number of “regular” schools that also can give her some great opportunities.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll see you on the Theater Forum, too!</p>
<p>Congratulations UVa! That must be fantastic, the feeling that waiting is over as early as November!</p>
<p>boysx, thanks for the Chicago tips. I don’t like that city very much, but that probably means that my son will. I lived there for a year and I agree that DP is perfectly located… Great idea. </p>
<p>EmmyBet, where is your daughter auditioning? My daughter did some auditioning (did not get into Juilliard, got into Tish/Playwrights Horizons) but in the end decided to get a broad liberal arts education first. If I can help with some tips, I will.</p>
<p>Thanks, ponornica!</p>
<p>My D’s auditioned BFAs are at Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Minnesota (she’s also applied as a BA), Adelphi University, Montclair State University, and SUNY New Paltz (auditioned BA). As you can tell, she does not want to be in Manhattan!</p>
<p>She’s very excited about the auditions, loves to perform, loves finding monologues. I’m looking forward to having them all scheduled and our trips planned. We’ll be at the Chicago Unifieds and will take one trip to the NY area, too. </p>
<p>She wants a BFA mostly, but would think hard about some of the really wonderful BA schools on her list (much like your D). We’ll see what bouquet we’re choosing from when the answers come in.</p>
<p>If you’re new to CC, we’d love you over on the Theater Forum, with any advice. I know many people are very interested in anyone’s experiences dealing with NYU.</p>
<p>Best wishes to your son - I second many of the wonderful suggestions given here.</p>
<p>UVA - great news - I love hearing the thrill of the first acceptance!</p>
<p>Emmy Bet, my first advice with auditions is to be aware of the fact that different schools want different things in an incoming acting class. It is impossible to be both well trained in acting and still untrained, to be mostly interested in musical theatre and mostly interested in classical theatre…etc., so no one will be accepted everywhere. being accepted at one conservatory-type place is a huge success.
Second, I advise serious work on the text before even approaching the monologue. The monologue is a moment in a play, and one cannot get it right before one understands the play as a whole. Of course each line could be said in many different ways - preparing for audition involves making consistent choices and thinking about why you made the choices that you did.
This is just a brief reply, of course I should be posting this on other threads… but then, there are many people on theatre threads that have years of experience with auditions. I just happen to live in a theatre soaked domestic atmosphere and I’m a quick learner, but this is not my field… PM me if you want.</p>
<p>UVA - Congrats!</p>
<p>Thank you, ponornica. Very sound advice. The weird thing about theatre apps as opposed to academic and even other fine arts apps is that it is so non-quantitative. Even within theatre there aren’t any benchmarks - it’s all about the audition and who you are and what they need and that’s that. In music, you know you’ve reached a certain level of repertoire, and you can pass through certain awards categories; in art you have time to build your portfolio in advance, and also to be judged along the way in conventional settings. In theatre it’s how you are, that day, period. My D has a nice enough resume, but all of the lead roles, drama camps and Forensics awards - if she had them, which she doesn’t - would mean nothing during the 3 minutes she’ll have to perform before the auditors.</p>
<p>It sounds kind of scary, but she’s good at this, and she’ll have fun with it. Plus she’s very, very realistic. I am grateful that her most important goal is to become educated, and that she has wonderful options. She’s approached this process very thoughtfully, and I appreciate that.</p>
<p>I am so glad to have found this forum. My son has an unweighted GPA between 3-3.3. His problem, other than GPA are his test scores, 1450/2400 on SAT and 20 composite on ACT. We live in Florida and I am seeing on our state university systems college freshmen profiles for nearly every university, he doesn’t measure up or even come close. I hate to be negative, however, I am scared. My son and husband are not worried at all. My husband and I are both UF grads. He has already been accepted to an out of state school, MTSU, and he is really excited about it. I cannot be excited, however, because, he has Florida prepaid tuition and is eligible for a Florida Medallions Scholars scholarship which will help pay for his college expenses. We have gone on 1 instate school visit where he was not excited because his major is not a huge program. I do not think he will get into any school in FL where his major, Broadcast Journalism is a huge program. We are supposed to go on another visit this weekend, at a school he is interested in although I do not think he will get into. He is saying that if he doesn;t get into 1 of the 3 top schools in Fl for his major, he will go out of state to MTSU. Can anyone give me any advice??</p>
<p>Hmm, it seems that your main problem is that you, your son and your husband see things very differently. Is there a way for the three of you (and, if you have other children, they as well) to have an open but relaxed conversation about your son’s college? He doesn’t need more stress now, but you should be able to express your views too and be heard. It is interesting that your husband seems to share your son’s attitude. Maybe you and he should talk first.</p>
<p>I think ponornica offer sound advice. I also suggest that a “huge program” often means “huge numbers of kids vying for airtime, professors’ attention and admittance into small classes.”</p>
<p>Ponorinica, if Depaul makes your list, 3 other Catholic schools to consider are Fairfield, Loyola MD and St Josephs. All would let you visit your son by car, are in or not far from cities and are midsized.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I am clearly the enemy here with my son and my husband halfway agrees. We talked this weekend and last night. My husband’s answer is he really wants to go to UF. My answer is that if he really wanted to go to UF, he had 4 years to prepare with a better GPA and test scores. If only getting into the school of his choice was by “really wanting”.</p>