<p>Hi all,
I'd love to be in touch with parents who have students who decided, for whatever reason, to not attend any college program next year and audition again in next year's rounds. </p>
<p>There are a lot of issues unique to this path, I think, (for example, the value of a minimum wage job during the year vs taking cc classes vs a theater-oriented but not paying internship) that would be fun to discuss with others. [If a student is attending a college program in the fall, or is a junior in high school waiting for auditions to start, these issues don't even come up (obviously). !!!]</p>
<p>thanks - CC has never failed me yet!</p>
<p>I do not know anyone who took off the year and reauditioned, though it is certainly a viable option. I do know a number of kids who went on to a college, and transferred--two of them to Tisch--don't know if was immediately the next year. In their cases, the problem with their app was their academics. That is pretty much erased if you do well at college which they did. They took theatre arts type courses and focused on getting private lessons for audition techniques and coaching, private voice as well. If you did not get what you wanted going through the auditions this year, you need to do a post mortem on what went wrong. Did you just not pick enough schools, have bad luck, or was there a definite weak spot in your apps? If your SAT1 score or your grades are the problems, outstanding performance in college can often mitagate if not obliterate that issue, as transfers do not have that info heavily weighted. You do need to check with each school and the MT department specifically to get transfer info. There are some schools where the chances for transfer admissions is zilch. Or how they would feel taking someone as a freshman after a year at another school at a non MT program.</p>
<p>Jamimom, thanks. Grades are not a problem, and she's not taking college courses this coming year so will not be a transfer. [Has 9 college credits already from courses taken in high school.] She'll keep training and auditioning locally (and performing locally as in the past, most likely).</p>
<p>In my opinion, in a situation like this, it is probably most important that she get a good audition coach to help her with the audition along with continuing the training. It seemed to me that the audition was the single most important thing in the process, those very short moments can make or break. Though in many of the schools, so many kids had great auditions that the academic stats also became important. I did not get the sense that the resumes were as important. I saw so many terrific resumes--so many talented kids--it seems to come down to that audition.</p>