<p>It doesn't work for me :( gall dang-it.</p>
<p>So true Tashmu!!! Congrats to your daughter!</p>
<p>Congrats to all!
As the appl process can involve substantial amount of work,
everyone is to be commended even if without winning an award.</p>
<p>Just faxed off an update to my EA school about NFAA. :)</p>
<p>I'll be interested to see the geographical distribution of the winners on Dec 1st when they post them all. I know last year in writing there many winners/honorable mentions from Interlochen, the arts boarding school in MI. I know other categories have schools from which a cluster of students often wins as well. I will be curious to see if that plays out this year as well.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who entered the Arts awards. I also received an Honorable Mention for musical theater and am so excited! If I can only get some acceptance letters as well, I will be Over the Top!!!!!!! Hopefully soon! Very Soon!</p>
<p>Hey mtsinger, congratulations as well from the self-appointed cheering squad!</p>
<p>Oooh, I'm getting nervous now. I haven't heard anything yet! Then again I sent my stuff in the morning of November 1st (XD) so they might not've gotten to me yet? Haha, here's hoping!</p>
<p>Hey, has anyone else gotten emails from colleges because of ARTS? I recently recieved an email from Roosevelt mentioning they saw I was "participating in the ARTS awards". Anyone else get anything like that?</p>
<p>Oh, and the email was simply recruitment, "check out our school" type stuff. The usual college email ;P</p>
<p>We received a "come hither" message, too, from Chicago Performing Arts, refering to application to the ARTS award. So it does seem to give a heads up to colleges, as you imply. that is pretty cool, and an unexpected result.</p>
<p>My D is only a hs junior, so she won't be entering the NFAA competition until next year. But I recently visited the site and was interested to see what colleges the winners (last year) attended. Juilliard appeared several times, as did many of the other "Ivies," so it seems that: a) either the kids who win these awards are so fabulous that they get admitted to the "best" programs; b) the ARTS awards help them get admitted; or c) all of the above. (My guess is "all of the above!")</p>
<p>One of the top winners in spoken theater last year was a lovely young woman from my D's hs who is now at Juilliard. (One of her classmates, who did not win an award, also is at Juilliard with her. Both are studying acting.) </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you out there who entered.</p>
<p>I noticed a lot of the writers ended up at Harvard/Stanford/Columbia/etc. I agree that it's probably a combination of them being terrifically qualified already (very good writers are usually very intelligent) and winning ARTS on top of that. </p>
<p>christeap- did you try accessing your scores online as suggested on this thread? because I won two merit awards, but have only received a letter about one of them so far. The other one I just found out about online.</p>
<p>Yes, but when I entered in my number only an error message popped up.</p>
<p>Last year, as far as classical voice, 8 of the 9 finalists participated as college freshmen at Juilliard, Curtis, Eastman,etc. As long as you are 18 in the year of the competition, you can still participate even though you are out of high school.</p>
<p>I really love the way the competition is organized - you are a number and a category only, so you are judged purely on the basis of your talent alone.</p>
<p>ABlestmom, can you explain what you mean? What do you mean by "you are a number and a category alone?" Do you mean that the judges don't know your name or what school you come from? Do you think, if they knew what school a kid came from or his or her name, that that would influence the judges in some way? I apologize for not expressing myself well here, but I am confused about the point you are making!</p>
<p>I mean that you submit the CD with your NFAA ID number on it and that's it. The NFAA organizers of course know your name, however, the judges do not. There is no partiality as to what state you're from, who your teacher is, what high school/college you go to, what other awards you've won...the list is endless. It's a blind audition - as impartial as it can be.</p>
<p>The most impartial auditions I have ever heard of are the way some symphony orchestra auditions are conducted. I am told by a friend (whose son's friend plays for the SO in a foreign country) that the musicians are seated behind a screen of some kind, so the adjudicators don't even know their sex, age, color, looks, etc. Of course, the auditioners' names are also kept from the adjudicators, as names reveal a host of information about us. Interesting, isn't it?</p>
<p>Yes...I've heard the same from my friend who lives in the south - her kids audition for youth orchestras this way. It especially puts the kids at ease when the judges are not staring at them, lol.</p>
<p>In some disciplines there is only 1 judge - I'm assuming that's the "preliminary panelists" webpage - like classical piano and brass. (<a href="http://www.nfaa.org/panel/Prelim/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nfaa.org/panel/Prelim/index.htm</a>)</p>
<p>My letter says my tape has been reviewed by "a panel of artists and educators in my artistic discipline". Sure, if 1 person counts as a panel. If Jose Lopez (whoever the hell he is) has different ideas about phrasing and expression, whoopee, I'm screwed out of a place at Florida. </p>
<p>Sorry if I sound terribly sore. I am.</p>
<p>NotMamaRose,</p>
<p>I've heard of that too, I've even heard of some situations where women were required to take their shoes off so the judges wouldn't be able to hear the click-clack of high heels and figure out that they were women!</p>
<p>Sorry Nutmeg88,that's part of competition. You can take out all the other partiality factors, then there is still a element of personal taste. Although I'm sure, like All State, they have a large rubric of things to check off that they are looking for in a finalist. I still think they do a fabulous job. When you think of the sheer volume of material they have to review in less than a month - it's staggering! Did you get a honorable mention award? It would be nice to see judges comments and how close you came to another award by adding one decimal... a 9.9 meaning you nearly made finalist, but I suppose it's not feasible with the sheer volume of applicants.</p>