<p>PM if you want to meet up! Maybe we could start a group!</p>
<p>What are moonifieds?</p>
<p>My D and I will be at Moonifieds. We are finishing up all the prep this weekend.</p>
<p>I want her to make an index card for each school that she is auditioning with. What does she like about the school, who is auditioning her, and what questions would she ask.</p>
<p>We are driving from Houston Thurs afteroon to arrive a couple of hours before check in.</p>
<p>Have you attended any of the Master Classes?</p>
<p>I’ll be there with CCU helping out! If anyone has questions about Coastal or the process in general (Moo Crew alum!) feel free to send a PM.</p>
<p>@Prodesse, Moonifieds are private auditions that college coach Mary Anna Dennard sets up for her students in mid-November. They are called “Moonifieds” b/c Mary Anna’s nickname is Moo. I think they have about 14 schools attending this year. For some of the schools, they use these “Moonifieds” as a live pre-screen…others may indeed use it as the actual audition. I am not the best person to provide additional details b/c my daughter uses MTCA, but she has several friends who use Moo and are attending Moonifieds.</p>
<p>MTDancerMOM- Are you talking about the master classes the first night or the ones during the year? We have done the CMU, Mich, and TSU but I don’t know what goes on with the ones Thursday night.</p>
<p>My D was there for the CMU, Rider and TSU ones. She said that she has met some really great kids so far - two she has been facebooking with. I think it is great that she has others to talk to about this process that understand what she is going through.</p>
<p>She will be attending Thurs nights classes - as far as she is concerned it calms her nerves the more she interacts with the colleges and auditioners. She will be auditioning for 8 colleges during Moonified. </p>
<p>I love the fact that it is so convienient to our home, it definately is a financial plus for us.</p>
<p>@Prodesse, Monkey13 is correct. There are 14 universities that are participating in Moonifieds. I found it so convienient because we live in Houston that it keeps the travel cost down for us. For the majority of the colleges, this is the final audition with no call backs required. This is also a big help for us.</p>
<p>If you would like for detailed information, feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>theatremomma - I do not have enough posts yet to PM you. Can you PM me, or does the 15 rule apply to receiving post?</p>
<p>MTdancermom. I sent you a PM</p>
<p>So I’ve never heard of Moonifieds, but that’s probably because we’re in the Pacific Northwest. But I have a question: for those schools who are using Moonifieds as their final audition, are acceptances being given from the Moonified process? Which schools specifically are involved?</p>
<p>I am not going to open this whole coaching can of worms… been there. I was just looking for people going. Mary Anna lists the schools on her website. Some are pre-screens, some are actual auditions. I have heard there are offers sometimes made.</p>
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I’m fascinated to know that a private teacher can set up private auditions for her studio with college and universities that result in acceptances for her students. If they are rejected, does it count a final rejection, or are they allowed to audition at the regular public auditions? I suppose this kind of influence would make the private teacher even more desirable and sought-after. I wonder if other coaches will also begin to hold this sort of private audition, and how that will affect the whole audition scenario. Are these private auditions regulated? Just curious, having never heard of this second level of auditions.</p>
<p>My thoughts exactly. Is it just me, or is there anyone else out there who thinks this doesn’t sound very fair to those who are not using a coach??</p>
<p>Omg…</p>
<p>I’d like to know too, if that is the only audition or if they can try for a second time with the regular auditions. My guess is the first one counts if it’s really good, but doesn’t count if it’s not, just like the regional auditions happening at the state level. It certainly is quite an advantage. It would be amazing to have a go at one of these schools, get feedback, and then try again later. Wow. Spend your money, people (she said dryly).</p>
<p>For the power house schools: </p>
<p>Please post info on your website about other opportunities to meet and work with you in workshops, regional auditions, etc. It’s not easy or that common to know about these opportunities and it’s maddening to find out about them when it’s too late. So many people wrongly assume that the posted auditions are all that’s scheduled; the word needs to get out that there are “practice” opportunities out there.</p>
<p>Agreed with glassharmonica, momarmarino and others. I personally find this ethically troubling for colleges, to have private non-publicized auditions you have to pay a private individual for. Does anyone feel there possible discrimination issues here as well? I don’t know. At the very least, I feel colleges ought to even the playing field and post <em>all</em> their auditions rather than misrepresent their audition practices–the truth is they publicize only certain auditions for the public, and then other students, ‘in the know,’ who pay extra, are allowed private auditions. “Moo” is rightfully open about it and posts it on her own website–but the colleges themselves are not open about it. Furthermore, they always imply that all slots are equal when clearly they’re not, particularly if the college is the sort that recruits a x number of students and wants certain types for a balanced class or their own vision. If your ‘type’ is taken at this private audition for y school, then you will not get a spot at y school when you audition at the public dates. It is simply wasted time and money for you. (And for those who will insist BFA programs don’t admit based on type–they do. That’s a fact. Not all, but certainly a sizable portion.)</p>
<p>Overall, I would call on colleges to be much more open and transparent about this whole audition process.</p>
<p>I freaked out about this same thing right around this time last year. I’d suggest everyone take a breath though. These early / private auditions will have little if nothing to do with the odds of any of your kids getting into schools. I did not understand that at this time last year but I do now.</p>
<p>Look at it mostly as a logistical convenience be it because of regional auditions that are held in various locations or in the case of moonifides, they are specific to a successful coach. At the end of the day, whoever attends these auditions still has to have the talent to get the spot. It doesn’t matter at all to any of your kids (non moonifides etc) if the schools run into those kids in July, October, November or any other date. If the schools want them, they will want them whenever they show up. If they don’t they won’t. </p>
<p>I feel your pain and it REALLY freaked me out last year when I stumbled into this same data point (discussed every year in CC BTW this is not new news). Hindsight being 20/20 I know it didn’t matter AT ALL to my own kid. It only matters to the kids that are doing it early. Lucky them to have the convenience. Focus on what you can control. This will change ABSOLUTELY nothing for the rest of you (us… I wasn’t in that boat either.)</p>
<p>BTW, I’d bet the farm that Moonifides works pretty much like early regionals or any other early action/early decisions audition. Give the busy schools credit. They don’t have the time to see the kids more than once and won’t want to (or need to) unless they use these early auditions as a prescreen (and certainly some do). </p>
<p>Don’t forget that many schools are also holding early decision / early action auditions right now too. Don’t chase the calendar just do what you need to do.</p>
<p>classicalbk: news to me if regional audition results give you a second go. Never heard of that. Really?</p>
<p>I have to admit, I’m glad I didn’t know about this last year! And yes, it is unfair to people who aren’t using a coach-- but then, the process is inherently unfair, so… </p>
<p>We went through it last year, coachless and in spite of my studying CC for years, clueless-- and D is in a wonderful program, getting an education that goes beyond my hopes for her. (And my hopes are the typical insane motherly hopes.) </p>
<p>One thing I’ve seen again and again here is kids who do a year of auditions and get nowhere–take a gap year with plenty of coaching, try again and have great choices. Which is to say, these auditions are not going to make or break anyone’s career. Oh it’s hard to get this through a tough 18 yr old skull, but it’s true.</p>