<p>Sporti, yes my daughter has. She didn't do Unifieds but she did audition for Penn State on campus and was admitted. The way Penn State does auditions is that everyone does the dancing, singing and acting auditions. When on campus, half the applicants did their singing/acting with one faculty and half got to do it with the other. When everyone was done, they posted a callback list. This was not how it was done at other schools, by the way. They said if you did not make the callback list, you could assume you did not get into the school. I can't recall how many auditioned that day but there were a LOT. The callbacks were maybe a dozen kids for that day. Basically a huge number got cut or eliminated. </p>
<p>At the callbacks, each person one at a time, did their singing/acting again so that the other faculty got to see it who didn't the first time (and so that the director will now have seen them also if not the first time). At that callback, there were some "interview" questions. So, the "interview" questions ONLY come up if you are in the callback mode. </p>
<p>By the way, at the on campus PSU auditions, they allowed current BFA in MT students to watch every audition. </p>
<p>In fact, I hope I am remembering which school is which on this next part, but I recall at the PSU interview, they were looking at D's resume. They saw who her voice teacher was for five years (the one we have now recommended to you and who you are training with!). They were questioning how a kid from rural Vermont could be training with this voice teacher as if she embellished the resume! She then went onto explain how B.R., while on the faculty of a theater program in NYC, actually lives in VT and commutes back and forth each week to teach in NYC! I do recall that now. So, um, expect that question, LOL>as it all fits you now too.</p>
<p>I hope that helps a bit.</p>
<p>that does help, susan....thank you very much!! BOY, that's stressful that you basically find out then and there whether or not you're being considered. whew. </p>
<p>i was sort of expecting to get questioned about BR as that could easily be pretty confusing!! </p>
<p>did your D say anything about what sort of dance audition it was? as in, mostly jazz or ballet based, anything like that? i know she's an excellent dancer, so whether or not it was difficult sort of goes irrelevant!! haha. </p>
<p>i'm only directing these questions at soozie b/c i know her daughter auditioned for PSU, but i'd love to hear anyone else's answers if there were any experiences with PSU auditions (especially at unifieds if there's anyone out there)!!</p>
<p>thanks so much!</p>
<p>Trying to remember back to PSU....there were two parts of the dance audition (again this was on campus, i can't tell you if it is any different at NYC Unifieds)......they were taught a ballet combination, did that, and they were also taught a jazz combination and did that. I recall one of these was to West Side Story (my D had just been in that musical as Anita and I recall hearing the music through the wall as I sat in a Parent session and smiling hearing the familiar music). </p>
<p>As far as B.R., at the Syracuse audition, the auditor also picked up on his name on the resume and said she knew him.</p>
<p>I hope you have been enjoying our dance studio. It is so weird for me to not be sitting there every night like I did for ten years. Next time you go, look in the lobby and you hopefully will see a director's chair embroidered with Dancer Mom on it and signed by my daughter and another girl who were two graduates in 2005 in Teen Jazz (select dance rep troupe). I bought that as a parting gift, so that all the moms who come after me, have a seat where I once sat for years with my two girls. Tell everyone hello from us.</p>