<p>OKAY.
If there's already a thread for this, delete this post, but if there isn't, I think it would be a good and useful thread to have here.</p>
<p>This is is something that has been bothering and confusing me.</p>
<p>I <em>know</em> academics are incredibly important and can ultimately put you at an advantage for some schools when they are down to the last few and choosing between performers to admit. </p>
<p>I just need someone to confirm for me if auditions are more or less important in the longrun...or...can someone tell me if they are the deciding factor or not? I need to communicate something about the auditions to my mother who is completely focused on my SAT scores and academics and thinks of the audition as a secondary factor in MT college admission (which I think isn't true at all, but maybe I'm wrong). My mother is completely supportive of my decision to go into MT and wants me to succeed, but she's just not a stage mother or anything and is sort of thrust into this whole new aspect of college (she got through my both older brothers' normal applications-they ended up at Stanford/Harvard and Willamette)...she just needs help with new lil ole me.....yeah...I'll take any help I can get!</p>
<p>thanks, love, ToTheStage</p>